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Research is at the very heart of the IEA. Our comprehensive programme of books, papers and briefings – featuring a range of writers from new authors to Nobel Prize winners – provides the intellectual framework for our extensive and far-reaching communication, education and outreach activities.

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.

Economic Freedom of the World: 1998/9 Interim Report

1 January 1998

Research

Economic Freedom of the World: 1998/9 Interim Report

James Gwartney and Robert Lawson

1 January 1998

This volume builds on the findings of Economic Freedom of the World: 1975-1995 and Economic Freedom of the World: 1997 … Continue reading

Does the Past have a Future? The Political Economy of Heritage

1 January 1998

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Does the Past have a Future? The Political Economy of Heritage

Sir Alan Peacock

1 January 1998

Many countries are proud of their ‘heritage,’ in terms of buildings various artefacts from the past. In some cases, a … Continue reading

Chaos, Management and Economics

1 January 1998

Research

Chaos, Management and Economics

David Parker and Ralph Stacey

1 January 1998

The best selling IEA title of the 1990s, it applies chaos theory to the social sciences

First published in 1994, this title was the best selling IEA publication of the 1990s. It applies the ideas of … Continue reading

Climate Change: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

1 December 1997

Research

Climate Change: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

Julian Morris

1 December 1997

Contributions from Robert Balling, Roger Bate, Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Deepak Lal and Thomas Gale Moore.

Executive Summary The world’s climate is in constant flux: on time-scales from days to millennia, global and regional temperature, wind … Continue reading

Towards Self-Governing Schools

19 November 1997

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Towards Self-Governing Schools

Dick Atkinson

19 November 1997

In this challenging paper Dr Dick Atkinson asks why local education authorities are needed. Finding reasons lacking, he puts forward a proposal for all schools to be self-governing and thereby removed from the debilitating effects of politicised education.

Executive Summary Is local government involvement in education part of the problem, rather than a solution to falling standards, lack … Continue reading