Wealth Generation: How to boost income mobility in the UK, new IEA research arguing that regulatory restrictions on housing and … Continue reading “Housing Crisis is Undermining Social Mobility”

Britain’s restrictive planning system and occupational licensing rules hurt the worst-off. House prices could be over one-third lower without restrictive … Continue reading “Housing shortage holding back social mobility, says new IEA report”

New research by IEA Director of Public Policy and Communications Matthew Lesh has been featured in The Daily Express. The … Continue reading “Red Tape Powering Cost-of-Living Surge”

Contents Summary Red tape significantly contributes to the higher cost of living in the United Kingdom. The Consumer Price Index … Continue reading “Graphic Content: How Red Tape is Fuelling the Cost of Living Crisis”

Since 2000, sectors with heavy state intervention have experienced large price rises while competitive markets have experienced price falls. Average … Continue reading “Red tape has fuelled the cost of living crisis, argues new IEA paper”

IEA Communications Officer Reem Ibrahim concerns over a growing ageing population have been voiced in CapX where she argued that … Continue reading “It is not wrong to encourage work – even for the elderly”

IEA’s Editorial and Research Fellow, Professor Len Shackleton has written in CapX covering Oxfam’s contradictory corporate stance against capitalism. Len … Continue reading “Oxfam’s anti-capitalist hypocrisy”

A recent article in CapX by IEA Senior Research Fellow Jamie Whyte criticising the latest proposals for a Universal Basic … Continue reading “UBI: a welfare pipedream”

IEA Director General Mark Littlewood was quoted in a Which? explainer on the impact of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). … Continue reading “The basics of universal income”