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25 May 2018
Tax and Fiscal Policy
Kate Andrews writes for City AM
Kate Andrews, News Editor at the Institute of Economic Affairs, has written for City AM on the Shadow Chancellor's proposals. Economic systems based on socialist policy don’t distribute wealth, they destroy it. From Mao’s China to Castro’s Cuba, the pursuit of equality of outcome has led to extremely unprosperous societies. Nicolas Maduro’s uncompromising socialist policies ...
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25 May 2018
25 May 2018
Healthcare
Mark Littlewood comments in The Telegraph
Mark Littlewood, Director General at the Institute of Economic Affairs has commented in The Telegraph on Jeremy Hunt's call for increased taxation to fund the NHS. If the Government is serious about solving the problems the NHS faces, they should be looking at wholesale reform of the centralised system, not throwing arbitrary amounts of taxpayers' ...
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25 May 2018
24 May 2018
Healthcare
Kate Andrews writes for The Spectator
Kate Andrews, News Editor at the Institute of Economic Affairs has written for The Spectator following calls for increased taxation to fund the NHS. Even if public spending on the NHS were to increase to the levels recommended today by the IFS or IPPR, it would still be the sick system of Europe, ranking in ...
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24 May 2018
24 May 2018
Society and Culture
Madeline Grant writes for The Telegraph
Madeline Grant, Digital Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs has written for The Telegraph on the dwindling high street and what can be done to save it. Many of the woes facing the high street have been exacerbated by specific government policies. And thus, specific policy changes could alleviate many burdens on high street ...
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24 May 2018
23 May 2018
Government and Institutions
Shanker Singham writes for Reaction
Shanker Singham, Director of the IEA's International Trade and Competition Unit has written for Reaction about the opportunities Brexit has to offer. It is competition, a free people competing based on the quality of their ideas and their capacity for hard work, and not on cronyism or their ability to get a law or regulation ...
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23 May 2018
23 May 2018
Tax and Fiscal Policy
Mark Littlewood comments in the Daily Mail
Mark Littlewood, Director General at the Institute of Economic Affairs has commented in the Daily Mail on council tax hikes. In the article Mark argues that council tax hikes of this magnitude are hard to swallow when you consider how many councils have failed to budget properly. Local authorities should scale back and spend less ...
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23 May 2018
23 May 2018
Lifestyle Economics
Chris Snowdon comments in City AM
Chris Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs has commented in City AM on Public Health England's progress report on their sugar reduction scheme. In the article Chris makes the point that Public Health England have issued soviet-style targets with no understanding of how food is made or what consumers want. ...
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23 May 2018
23 May 2018
Julian Jessop comments in The Telegraph
Julian Jessop, Chief Economist at the Institute of Economic Affairs has been quoted in The Telegraph on the effect of Brexit on the economy. In the article Julian argues that inflation and business confidence have had an effect, but on a much smaller scale than Mark Carney, the head of the Bank of England would ...
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23 May 2018
22 May 2018
Healthcare
Dr Steve Davies appears on BBC Radio Kent
Dr Steve Davies, Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs has appeared on BBC Radio Kent to discuss how we should pay for social care. In the interview Steve argues that we are going to have to do something in this area because we've got an ageing population and we've got an enormous ...
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22 May 2018
22 May 2018
Government and Institutions
Kristian Niemietz has written for CapX
Kristian Niemietz, Head of Health and Welfare at the Institute of Economic Affairs has written for CapX on John McDonnell's claim that the Venezuelan regime wasn't real socialism. When oil prices peaked in the early 1980s, and then entered a prolonged period of steady decline, the party came to an end. Venezuela was still a rich country, ...
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22 May 2018
