The Hayek Memorial lecture has been an annual highlight in the IEA calendar since 1988, and this year we are thrilled to be honouring one of our own: acclaimed author, historian and IEA Head of Education Dr Stephen Davies. The event will take place at 6pm on Thursday 17th December, and will be live streamed (more…)

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE Sunday 11th October marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Arthur Seldon, economist and polemicist and co-founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs. The commemorate the anniversary, the IEA is delighted to host an in conversation event with Arthur’s son, Sir Anthony Seldon, to reflect on his contribution to liberty and (more…)

Should the BBC continue to be funded by the licence fee or other form of tax, or has this become an outmoded way of financing broadcasting in the modern world? Some argue that changes in technology mean that the current approach to financing, owning and regulating the BBC is no longer tenable. Others suggest the (more…)

The IEA Book Club is delighted to invite you to an upcoming webinar with Professor Donald Downs, the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who will be discussing his latest book “Free Speech and Liberal Education: A Plea for Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance”. Joining Professor Downs as a panellist (more…)

We are delighted to present to you an invitation to our upcoming IEA Book Club Webinar with Dr Rainer Zitelmann, who will be talking about his latest book “The Rich in Public Opinion”. This will take place on Tuesday 14th July at 18:30 BST In “The Rich in Public Opinion: What We Think When We (more…)

The IEA Book Club will be hosting the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, bestselling economist, Tim Harford, to discuss his latest book “The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy” . This webinar will be taking place on Tuesday 7th July at 18:00 BST and will be chaired by Mark Littlewood [IEA (more…)

Does Capitalism help or hinder women and what impact are Coronavirus and the lockdown having on this? To what extent are the concepts of Feminism and the Free Market at odds with one another? Recent campaigns have highlighted many of the challenges women are facing with the media focusing on gender pay gaps and glass (more…)

The IEA will be hosting a webinar with Grover Norquist, Founder and President of Americans for Tax Reform, who will be discussing with us “Freedom vs Security: Security at any cost?”. This event will be chaired by Professor Syed Kamall, IEA Academic and Research Director, and will take place on Tuesday 12th May at 18:00 (more…)

We are delighted to invite you to join us for an online webinar discussion with Professor Fabio Rojas, Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington, from 1pm – 2pm (BST) on Wednesday 6th May. He will be discussing ‘Freedom is Something we do Together’. Professor Rojas will analyse freedom using the tools of cultural sociology. When political (more…)