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1 April 2020
Economic Theory
We don’t know what the future holds, but we still need to make far reaching decisions. Unlike F. A. Hayek, who said the he preferred true but imperfect knowledge to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false, we seek certainties that don’t exist and invent knowledge that we can’t have to ...
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Mikko Arevuo
1 April 2020
31 March 2020
This week we launch IEA Daily, the new morning briefing from our team at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Delivered to your inbox first thing, the concise digest tells you all you need to read, see, hear and watch over the course of the day. In addition, one of our experts will select a Long ...
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31 March 2020
27 March 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is delivering a deep, severe shock to the global economy. Millions of people face an uncertain future, with no idea when (or, indeed, if) they will be able to return to work or see family members again. The effects will be felt in every home across Britain. Current measures are rightly focused on the physical health of the nation. Lockdowns, school closures, handwashing advice, ...
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Emma Revell
27 March 2020
23 March 2020
No-one can have failed to notice the half-empty supermarket shelves and long queues for essentials. Loo rolls even rivalled flowers as the Mother’s Day gift of choice. Fortunately, this is one phase of the coronavirus crisis which should be over soon. There has been a marked difference between what people say is socially acceptable and ...
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Julian Jessop
23 March 2020
22 November 2019
Fresh on the heels of last month’s suggestion that the IEA should delete books comes a new invitation from the Guardian newspaper, asking the IEA to agree that American support for advancing education about the institutions of a free society is deeply sinister and improper. These are some of the statements (note statements, not questions) made by the ...
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Andy Mayer
22 November 2019
![[Podcast] The free market take on Conservative conference](https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PodcastBlog-1200x450.png)
4 October 2019
The Conservative party conference is over and it is a good day when praise for free markets dominates the Prime Minister’s party conference speech. The freedoms and liberties we enjoy in the UK go hand-in-hand with a commitment to economic liberalism, which creates prosperity and raises living standards for everyone in society. But Boris Johnson ...
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4 October 2019
![[PODCAST] Fully Automated Luxury… Communism?!](https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LuxuryCommunismBlog-1200x450.png)
31 July 2019
In this week's podcast, the IEA’s Digital Manager Darren Grimes and Dr Kristian Niemietz discuss two new books in which the authors claim to lay out their socialist alternatives. The first book is Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani, which explores everything from the route to communism through socialism to Universal Basic Services, but ...
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31 July 2019
Institute of Economic Affairs
1 July 2019
We are delighted to welcome Linda Edwards as a new member of the IEA Board of Trustees. Linda is a US citizen and UK citizen who attended law school in Texas before practising mergers and acquisitions law at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles. She retired from law on moving to London, and has since ...
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Institute of Economic Affairs
1 July 2019
3 April 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May is obsessed with measuring pay gaps between social groups. She championed the requirement for companies with more than 250 workers to measure the so-called “gender pay gap.” Now she wishes companies to measure the “ethnic pay gap.” Yet these measurements, hailed by champions of intersectional theory, produce deceptive statistics that ...
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Philip Booth
3 April 2019
![[PODCAST] The economics of renewables](https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RidleyPodcast-1200x450.png)
29 March 2019
Most agree that green energy has a huge role to play in the future – indeed, even now. But the debate around renewables and their ability to help tackle climate change rages on. In the US, President Trump faced mass backlash when he pulled out of the Paris climate agreement – yet recent figures suggest ...
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29 March 2019
