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This peer–reviewed research challenges received wisdoms, questions government policies and puts forward radical free-market solutions to today’s – and tomorrow’s – economic and social problems.

Aligning Corporation Tax and Income Tax

16 March 2012

Research

Aligning Corporation Tax and Income Tax

Philip Booth and Ray Chidell

16 March 2012

A prelude to radical reform

Executive summary There are many reasons for aligning the main rate of corporation tax with the basic rate of income … Continue reading

Liberating farming from the CAP

28 February 2012

Research

Liberating farming from the CAP

Sean Rickard

28 February 2012

Reforming the controversial policy

Executive summary: By 2020 the EU is planning to increase expenditure on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by some €8billion … Continue reading

… and the Pursuit of Happiness

16 January 2012

Research

… and the Pursuit of Happiness

Edited by Philip Booth

16 January 2012

Wellbeing and the Role of Government

Executive summary: The idea put forward by the British government that economists and politicians pursue policies directed towards maximising GDP … Continue reading

2012 Index of Economic Freedom

12 January 2012

Research

2012 Index of Economic Freedom

Terry Miller, Kim R. Holmes & Edwin J. Feulner

12 January 2012

The eighteenth edition of the Heritage Foundation's popular survey of economic liberty

World economic freedom has, on average, seen a marginal decline since last year. Rapid expansion of government, more than any … Continue reading

Crises of Governments

12 December 2011

Research

Crises of Governments

Robert Barro

12 December 2011

The Ongoing Global Financial Crisis and Recession

Executive summary: The ‘Great Recession’ has been particularly deep. In the USA, the loss of GDP relative to trend growth … Continue reading

No Case for Plan B – Lessons for the Great Recession from the Great Depression (web publication)

5 December 2011

Research

No Case for Plan B – Lessons for the Great Recession from the Great Depression (web publication)

Kent Matthews

5 December 2011

How Keynesian policies would not have worked then, and why they will not work now

Executive Summary As calls for Plan B mount, it is increasingly being suggested that the UK is making the same … Continue reading

The case against a financial transactions tax (web publication)

20 November 2011

Research

The case against a financial transactions tax (web publication)

Tim Worstall

20 November 2011

Why it won't work and will damage the economy

Executive summary There is strong economic evidence that the proposed Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) would not increase the amount of tax … Continue reading

Self-employment, Small Firms and Enterprise

13 October 2011

Research

Self-employment, Small Firms and Enterprise

Peter Urwin

13 October 2011

How entrepreneurship will drive economic growth

Executive summary: Self-employment is a form of contractual relationship which, in certain circumstances, will have greater benefits to the parties … Continue reading

Economic Freedom of the World 2011 Annual Report

20 September 2011

Research

Economic Freedom of the World 2011 Annual Report

James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, and Joshua Hall

20 September 2011

The latest edition of this annual report, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs

Executive Summary The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions … Continue reading

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