Some public health campaigners consider good health to be irreconcilable with free market capitalism. They regard the pursuit of profit … Continue reading “Free Market Solutions in Health: Prohibition or Harm Reduction?”

Executive summary: The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions … Continue reading “Economic Freedom of the World 2012 Annual Report”

Dr Steve Davies asks whether UK debt is too high, and what the government can do about the deficit.

Prof Philip Booth discusses austerity in the Eurozone and historical precedents for cutting government spending and avoiding tax increases.

The book launch for the new IEA co-published book by Nobel Laureate Prof Ronald Coase and Ning Wang. Speakers include: … Continue reading “How China Became Capitalist”

Philip Booth interviews Eamonn Butler (author of the IEA Ludwig von Mises primer) about Ludwig von Mises.

In the UK, further education is a bastion of Soviet central planning that has wholly avoided the market-based reforms that … Continue reading “Alison Wolf – An Adult Approach to Further Education”

This short interview profiles Verdict on the Crash, edited by Philip Booth, with contributions from James Alexander, Michael Beenstock, Eamonn … Continue reading “Philip Booth – Verdict on the Crash”

In the last fifty years, many aspects of socialism have been rolled back around the world. Indeed, in the 1990s, … Continue reading “Colleen Dyble – Taming Leviathan”