At 12pm on Wednesday 6th July the Institute of Economic Affairs and The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics are hosting a joint event to discuss the topical question of whether the UK public has lost faith in free markets, and if so, what might be done about it. CEME’s Director, Revd Dr Richard Turnbull, (more…)

The IEA Book Club is delighted to host an upcoming event with Dr George Maher on his latest book “Pugnare – Economic Success and Failure”. This event will take place on Monday 29th November from 18:00 – 20:00 at the IEA. Donald Trump and Commodus? Emperor Tiberius and the 2008 financial crisis? Two worlds, 2000 years apart that are not (more…)

A new book from Dr Eamonn Butler explores and examines how entrepreneurship drives economic progress and how governments can create the optimal conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive. What part does entrepreneurship play in boosting innovation, progress, productivity and growth – and why is this overlooked in economics textbooks? Do we underestimate the contributions of entrepreneurship, (more…)

As The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP has previously written, some people bandy the label Marxism around too freely, without recognising what it is. It might help the debate to remind people what Marx himself recommended by way of public policy in his much-circulated Communist Party Manifesto. It contained ten wide-ranging policy proposals, and (more…)

The IEA Book Club is delighted to host renowned author and businessman Richard Koch, who will be discussing his forthcoming book “Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It: Unlocking the Nine Secrets of People Who Changed the World”. This webinar will be taking place on Tuesday 25th August at 6pm and will be chaired by (more…)

The IEA Book Club will be hosting renowned libertarian scholar Michael Munger, who will be discussing his forthcoming IEA Book about the sharing economy, “Platforms: Perils and Promise”. The webinar will be taking place on Tuesday 2nd June at 18:00 BST, and will be chaired by Professor Syed Kamall, the IEA’s Academic and Research Director. (more…)

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…)

​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…)

IEA Academic Webinar with Julian Jessop, IEA Fellow and former IEA Chief Economist Should you put a price on human life? Is one life worth more than another? How should we calculate this? Julian Jessop, IEA Fellow and former IEA Chief Economist, will look at the economics of placing a value on human life and (more…)