IEA Past Events

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…)

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…)

Global economic governance is in poor health, but real globalisation is thriving. New tariffs and trade wars are hurting global economic exchange, but for some time now cross-border commerce has been growing on the back of an ideas-based economy, based on R&D, innovation, technological change and new opportunities to collaborate across borders through digital means. (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 Simon–Ehrlich bet provides academics with plenty to argue over, but the larger trend is unambiguous – resources are becoming more, not less, abundant in relation to the labour time it takes to ‘buy’ them. The period since 1900 has been marked by world wars, famines and depressions. Yet population grew at an average rate (more…)

The IEA is delighted to host a virtual panel discussion on the topic of “Balancing Risk and Wellbeing – Lessons from the Pandemic” taking place on Thursday 30th July. This webinar discussion will be chaired by the IEA’s Head of Lifestyle Economics, Chris Snowdon. The coronavirus pandemic has raised uncomfortable questions about the trade-off between (more…)

Economics as a discipline has been subject to a wave of criticism since the financial crisis of 2008. A recent book by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’ exemplifies this critique. The authors defend ‘good economics’ but criticise what they see as an overblown defence of markets which has undermined the case for (more…)

The IEA Book Club is delighted to host renowned author, Matt Ridley, who will be discussing his latest book “How Innovation Works”. This webinar will be taking place on Tuesday 21st July, and will be chaired by the IEA’s Academic and Research Director, Professor Syed Kamall. In his latest work, Matt argues that we need (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…)