Contents Summary A free competitive market offers wide opportunities for individuals and businesses and is compatible with ...

Contents Foreword Studying economics especially at university can be a sterile and lifeless endeavour. In four out of five ...

The IEA is an educational charity and free market think tank. Our mission is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets ...

Flying to Scotland from Southampton on a fine day recently, my eye soon picked up the brown streak across southern central counties that is the route of HS2. Earth works are almost complete, and much ...

Nanny State Index 2025 Summary Welcome to the sixth edition of the Nanny State Index, a league table of the best and worst places to be a consumer of food, alcohol, soft drinks and nicotine. As always ...

The Spring Statement was more-or-less as expected. A worsening economic outlook meant that the Chancellor’s headroom against her primary fiscal rule – a current budget surplus in five years’ time – ...

The only plausible explanation for the collapse in legal tobacco sales is that there has been rapid growth in tobacco sales on the black market. There were four significant increases in tobacco duty ...

Introduction Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial … Continue reading "We’re number one… in unaffordable ...

Earlier this month, the IEA published the briefing paper Rent Control: Does it work? by Dr Konstantin Kholodolin from the German Institute … Continue reading "Rent controls: a response to Generation ...

New IEA research highlights the clear economic consensus that rent controls do far more harm than good.

Private schools are, on the whole, a good thing. They give parents greater choice in their children’s education, provide the state sector much needed competition and attract money from abroad by ...

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An … Continue reading "Empire and slavery did not make Britain rich, finds new ...