IEA Past Events

Leading think tank leaders from across Europe will join us to paint a picture of their political landscape and address how believers of small & efficient governments and supporters of liberal democracies can put the genie back in the bottle, once the public health emergency is over. Will countries roll back their emergency legislations once (more…)

The pandemic has already resulted in over 500,000 deaths worldwide, and sharply lower growth as economies are shut down to fight the first wave of the virus. Necessary policy action in the form of lower interest rates, more QE and looser fiscal policy will have a long-lasting financial and economic effect. Unfortunately, the UK will (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…)

For several years now many activists and policymakers have called for greater agricultural protectionism and local food production. In the last two decades, however, “locavore” initiatives have repeatedly failed to deliver on their proponents’ promises. Professor Desrochers will argue that this outcome was inevitable because they (re)created the problems that had historically motivated the development (more…)

The IEA is delighted to host an In Conversation with Danny Kruger MP, who has been the Member of Parliament for Devizes since the 2019 general election. Prior to that Mr Kruger was Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political secretary, having had a number of roles in the Conservative Government prior to that.   The webinar (more…)

Dr. Posen provides an evaluation of international cooperation against the current global health and economic crisis, amongst other fronts. Through his observations on how different countries and regions have coped with the crisis, he offers insights on how cooperation could look as the world moves forward from this crisis. Please register here. (more…)

Concerns about immigration usually stem from a fear that immigration threatens to undermine the institutions and values of a liberal democratic society. Less often considered is the impact of immigration control on those same values and institutions. This presentation looks at the other side of the ledger. It also considers the implications of episodes like (more…)

The IEA will be hosting a webinar on “COVID 19: Views from Across the Asia Pacific region”, taking place on Tuesday 23rd June at 12:30 BST. Leading think tank heads and academics from the region will join Professor Syed Kamall [IEA Academic and Research Director] to discuss the economic impact of the virus, alongside the (more…)

In a new briefing paper, Dr Juan Castañeda and Professor Tim Congdon examine whether central banks are heedless of the inflation risks inherent in monetary financing of the much-enlarged government deficits. What are the risks of central banks following the so-called ‘New Keynesian Model’ consensus? Do central bank economists ignore changes in the quantity of (more…)

In this talk, Dr Simon Kaye will outline his upcoming report on the Nobel Prize-winning political economist Elinor Ostrom, discussing how her ideas reach across political and ideological borders. It is telling that Ostrom’s work has nevertheless received little engagement among UK policymakers: a society and economy as centralised as the UK’s has little time (more…)