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Britain builds high-speed rail at almost six times the cost of Japan, new IEA analysis finds Every French city with … Continue reading “Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains.”

Summary Over the past quarter-century, as the tax burden has risen, so too has the structure of the tax system … Continue reading “The Great Stagnation Briefing 5: Tax”

‘Classics Revisited’ revisits a publication from a previous century from a present-day perspective, to show how much, or how little, … Continue reading “Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism”

Dr. Paola Romero teaches philosophy at the London School of Economics. As I write this, a number of political prisoners … Continue reading “The days after dictatorship”

  This week is my first as the new Director General of the IEA. It has turned out to be … Continue reading “Britain’s failing economic ideas”

British ¡Afuera! is a new series of pieces applying the principles of the IEA’s ‘Sharper Axes, Lower Taxes’ and Argentinian … Continue reading “British ¡Afuera! #2 – Higher Education”

On 2 December, King’s College London’s Politics Society organised a debate on the question of whether Britain needs a wealth … Continue reading “Does Britain need a wealth tax?”

By Anthony J Evans, Associate Professor of Economics at ESCP Business School Thus far, debates about the term “neoliberalism” have … Continue reading “Does neoliberalism exist?”

This book review was first published by the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics By Mark Koyama Economic historians have a … Continue reading “Book review: “The Laissez-Faire Experiment” by W. Walker Hanlon”