New research by IEA Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz studying the costs and benefits of colonialism has been featured in The … Continue reading “Colonialism Was Not the Key to Britain’s Industrial Boom”

New research by IEA Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz, which argues that colonialism and slavery delivered few gains to the UK’s … Continue reading “British Success not Rooted in Colonialism”

Summary In recent years, we have seen a renewed interest in Britain’s imperialist past: the British Empire, the slave trade … Continue reading “Imperial Measurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Western Colonialism”

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 IEA book”

IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Len Shackleton has been quoted in Guido Fawkes criticising the Labour Party’s new proposals for … Continue reading “Rail Renationalisation Plans Leave More Questions Than Answers”

Over the third week of April, the IEA hosted three international delegations (two from Sweden and one from the Netherlands), … Continue reading “The IEA begins. The origin story of the “Tufton Street” cabal”

Commenting on the Labour Party’s proposals for renationalisation of the railways, Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the free … Continue reading “Labour rail nationalisation plans ‘lacking in detail’”

Twenty years have passed since the publication of the Barker Review of Housing Supply, the final report of an expert … Continue reading “The revolt of the YIMBYs”

IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Len Shackleton has been quoted in PoliticsHome warning that the proposed new football regulator is … Continue reading “Football Regulator Risks Mission Creep”