IEA Past Events

We are very pleased to announce details of The Freedom Festival, an amazing weekend for anyone who cares about freedom and liberty. From Friday 14 to Sunday 16 March, attendees will play an active part in discussions and debates about the big political, economic and moral issues. Over the weekend, you’ll rub shoulders with some (more…)

An IEA Book Launch: Renaissance for Reforms (co-published by the IEA in partnership with Timbro) by Dr Nima Sanandaji and Prof Stefan Fölster. In Renaissance for Reforms Nima Sanandaji and Stefan Fölster show that, in spite of initial resistance to market reforms, governments that implement them are rewarded by voters. This finding is true for both centre-right and left-leaning parties. However, the strongest (more…)

Ahead of the 2014 Budget, Conservative MPs from the Free Enterprise Group and experts from the Institute of Economic Affairs and elsewhere will be presenting their ideas on how to consolidate the economic recovery. As families across the UK struggle with rising living costs, this briefing will explore how supply-side reform holds the key to (more…)

The IEA’s annual State of the Economy conference will take place on 26th February 2014. There is an excellent line up of speakers including: Dr Ben Broadbent (Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee) ; Graeme Leach (Chief Economist and Director of Policy at the Institute of Directors); Keith Wade (Chief Economist of (more…)

Guest Speakers: Peter Lilley MP and documentary maker Martin Durkin The Welfare State We’re In has been hailed by guest speaker Martin Durkin as “the most important book on the welfare state” and “one of the most important political/social/historical works of the last half century.” Milton Friedman described it as “a devastating critique of the (more…)

Watching The Watchmen is the first conference on liberty to take place at Essex University. Referring to Robert Nozick’s idea of the Watchman State, this conference proposes the need to watch the watchmen more carefully in its attempt to serve the public better. Featuring a number of guest speakers, the event will include talks on: (more…)

An Evening Panel Discussion followed by a drinks reception: Speakers: Keith Boyfield, IEA Fellow and Author Brian Sturgess, Managing Editor, Journal of World Economics Tan Sri Dr Alfred Jabu, Chairman of SALCRA (the small farmers’ association of Sarawak) Mark Littlewood, Director General, IEA (Chairman) With the poor moving away from subsistence farming and the world (more…)

Friday 6 December 2013, 9.00am, for a 9.15am start, to finish by 10.15am Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB This key event for journalists and policy makers will feature expert economic analysis the morning after the Autumn Statement. Panellists will evaluate the measures announced by George Osborne, discuss whether the Chancellor’s (more…)

This event is being jointly hosted by the IEA, Age Endeavour Fellowship and Chris Skidmore MP. Gabriel Sahlgren, author of two IEA papers on retirement policy, will present his research. Other speakers will include Chris Skidmore MP and there will be very brief remarks from Professor Philip Booth (IEA) and Edward Datnow (AEF). This will be (more…)

An Evening Panel Discussion – The influence of Coase on economic policy – the next 50 years The late Professor Ronald Coase made huge contributions to the development of economics over 75 years. From his paper on the theory of the firm which was published in 1937 (and cited when he won the Nobel Prize) (more…)