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The Chancellor is right to emphasise the importance of fiscal responsibility

13 June 2019

Tax and Fiscal Policy

The Chancellor is right to emphasise the importance of fiscal responsibility

13 June 2019

Responding to the Chancellor’s plea to keep national debt falling every year, Kate Andrews, Associate Director at the Institute of … Continue reading

Resisting pressure to intervene in executive pay, a sensible decision

13 June 2019

Labour Market

Resisting pressure to intervene in executive pay, a sensible decision

13 June 2019

Len Shackleton responds to government comments on executive pay

As the government responded to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s report on executive and high pay, Professor Len … Continue reading

Relieving the problems of the poor needs more than ‘sledgehammer’ of minimum wage increases, says IEA

30 May 2019

Labour Market

Relieving the problems of the poor needs more than ‘sledgehammer’ of minimum wage increases, says IEA

30 May 2019

Len Shackleton responds to Resolution Foundation report

Responding to calls from the Resolution Foundation to raise the minimum wage in order to eliminate low pay, Professor Len … Continue reading

Government should scrap apprenticeship levy, focus on improving education

22 May 2019

Labour Market

Government should scrap apprenticeship levy, focus on improving education

22 May 2019

Len Shackleton responds to Public Accounts Committee report

Commenting on a Public Accounts Committee report, which finds that apprenticeship reforms are failing to deliver, the IEA’s Editorial and … Continue reading

IEA responds to British Medical Journal report

16 May 2019

IEA responds to British Medical Journal report

16 May 2019

IEA responds to report from the British Medical Journal about the IEA's work on public health

The BMJ’s report does not seem to have unearthed any new information. The funding information they claim to ‘reveal’ has … Continue reading

Nationalising the UKs’s energy grid would be a step back into the dark ages, says IEA

15 May 2019

Energy and Environment

Nationalising the UKs’s energy grid would be a step back into the dark ages, says IEA

15 May 2019

Kate Andrews comments on Labour plans

Commenting on the Labour Party’s energy nationalisation proposal, Associate Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs Kate Andrews said: “Nationalising … Continue reading

Market forces are the best way to successfully integrate health and social care, says new IEA report

15 May 2019

Healthcare

Market forces are the best way to successfully integrate health and social care, says new IEA report

Philip Booth

15 May 2019

IEA report encourages more competition in health & social care systems

Competition and markets should be introduced into the UK’s health and social care systems to find the best ways of … Continue reading

Consequences of a bidding war over the minimum wage could be very grim, says IEA

11 May 2019

Labour Market

Consequences of a bidding war over the minimum wage could be very grim, says IEA

11 May 2019

Len Shackleton responds to Labour plans to raise the minimum wage

Responding to reports that the Labour Party plan to include under-18s in their proposal to raise the minimum wage to … Continue reading

The Lancet’s support for repressive regimes’ alcohol control policies is worrying

7 May 2019

Lifestyle Economics

The Lancet’s support for repressive regimes’ alcohol control policies is worrying

7 May 2019

Christopher Snowdon comments on new study in The Lancet

Responding to a study in The Lancet which claims that harmful drinking is rising, and which endorses alcohol control policies … Continue reading

IEA Press Release.

The Chancellor is right to emphasise the importance of fiscal responsibility

The Chancellor is right to emphasise the importance of fiscal responsibility

Resisting pressure to intervene in executive pay, a sensible decision

Resisting pressure to intervene in executive pay, a sensible decision

Relieving the problems of the poor needs more than ‘sledgehammer’ of minimum wage increases, says IEA

Relieving the problems of the poor needs more than ‘sledgehammer’ of minimum wage increases, says IEA

Government should scrap apprenticeship levy, focus on improving education

Government should scrap apprenticeship levy, focus on improving education

IEA responds to British Medical Journal report

IEA responds to British Medical Journal report

Nationalising the UKs’s energy grid would be a step back into the dark ages, says IEA

Nationalising the UKs’s energy grid would be a step back into the dark ages, says IEA

Market forces are the best way to successfully integrate health and social care, says new IEA report

Market forces are the best way to successfully integrate health and social care, says new IEA report

Consequences of a bidding war over the minimum wage could be very grim, says IEA

Consequences of a bidding war over the minimum wage could be very grim, says IEA

The Lancet’s support for repressive regimes’ alcohol control policies is worrying

The Lancet’s support for repressive regimes’ alcohol control policies is worrying

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