Dr Christian Sandstrom and Dr Karl Wennberg will be joining us to discuss their new book, Bureaucrats or Markets in Innovation Policy? Based on a major interdisciplinary research program with a special focus on Sweden, paired with international research, Dr Sandstrom and Dr Wennberg will explain how targeted interventions and firm subsidies do not have (more…)

Leading think tank heads from Germany, Italy and Greece will join us to analyse their governments’ economic response to the pandemic and provide an assessment on the looming economic crisis. How are these three EU member states responding to the massive fall in GDP and skyrocketing unemployment numbers? What is the role of the single (more…)

​In this webinar Professor Mark Pennington, King’s College London, will look at the distinction that Hayek makes between ‘simple’ and ‘complex’ phenomena and how this distinction can help us  understand the challenge facing policy-makers working to address the corona virus pandemic. He will consider what the character of the challenge presented by pandemic response can (more…)

As government intervention and central planning are being used as tools to combat coronavirus, there will be growing calls for parts of the socialist’s handbook to continue once we return to normality. Similarly, there are increasing calls for protectionist measures and a pushback against global supply chains. What challenges do free marketeers face after coronavirus? (more…)

As the four nations of the United Kingdom take divergent paths to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, questions are being raised about the future of the union. Is this an example of devolution in action, allowing England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales to take decisions that best suit their populations or will increasing fragmentation and division (more…)

As government intervention and central planning are being used as tools to combat coronavirus, there will be growing calls for parts of the socialist’s handbook to continue once we return to normality. Similarly, there are increasing calls for protectionist measures and a pushback against global supply chains. What challenges do free marketeers face after coronavirus? (more…)

The IEA welcomes you to our Academic Webinar series. This week Dr Nick Cowen, University of Lincoln, will be joined by Syed Kamall, IEA Academic and Research Director, to discuss the wider implications that coronavirus may have on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice systems are tasked with enforcing the radical social distancing measures imposed (more…)

The IEA is delighted to host a Private Webinar on the topic “COVID-19 – A perspective from across Europe”. This will take place on Thursday 23rd April, from 17:00 – 18:00 (BST). Leading think tank heads from across Europe will join us to explain their own country’s response to Covid-19 and debate the merits of (more…)

The IEA is delighted to invite you to join us for an online webinar discussion with Karin Svanborg-Sjövall, Chief Executive of Swedish Think Tank Timbro, from 1pm – 2pm (BST) on Wednesday 15th April. She will be discussing ‘The Impact of Coronavirus on Populism and Democracy’. Across Europe and the World we have seen drastically different (more…)