IEA Past Events

The IEA is delighted to invite you to attend our upcoming webinar on “Prohibition and the Pandemic,” where we will be joined by guest speaker’s Dr Jeffrey Miron, Dr Jamie Whyte and Dr H. Westley Clark. The webinar will be taking place from 5-6pm on Thursday 21st May and the IEA’s Head of Lifestyle Economics, (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…)

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…)

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 Book Club is thrilled to host an In Conversation with renown economist Daniel Lacalle, who will be discussing his latest book “Freedom or Equality: The Key to Prosperity Through Social Capitalism”. The discussion will be chaired by former Conservative MEP for South East England, and President of the Initiative for Free Trade, Dan (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…)

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…)

The IEA will be hosting a lively debate on Thursday 7th May, from 17:00 – 18:00 (BST) where the United States and their response to the pandemic will be the focus of our attention. UK traditional news coverage of how the US is reacting to, and dealing with, coronavirus seems limited to the latest speech (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…)