IEA Past Events

This month’s meeting of the London Mises Circle will take place at the Institute of Economic Affairs on April 25th. Abhinandan Mallick will give a talk on the Austrian School approach to the theory of value and price in the tradition of Menger and Bohm Bawerk, and its distinctive features in comparison to the dominant (more…)

An evening panel discussion – Rise of the machines: Are fixed odds betting terminals the new crack cocaine? Speakers: Neil Goulden, Chairman, Association of British Bookmakers Anthony Jennens, Chairman, Gamcare Christopher Snowdon, Head of the IEA Lifestyle Economics Derek Webb, Founder, Campaign for Fairer Gambling While many businesses continue to struggle, one industry has weathered (more…)

Incentivising Excellence: how school choice affects education quality, by Gabriel H. Sahlgren, Director of Research, The Centre for Market Reform of Education Introduced by Professor Philip Booth, Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs with Neil McIntosh, recently retired Chief Executive of the CfBT Education Trust, one of Britain’s largest educational charities. Spurred (more…)

The UK’s largest pro-liberty conference is finally here. This year’s conference will be bigger and better than ever before, with internationally renowned speakers descending on London from all over the world. A vast array of speakers and topics will include legal expert Professor Randy Barnett on libertarian law, Professor Terence Kealey on “Innovation versus Leviathan”, Peter Botting leading the (more…)

An IEA Book Launch Heavens on Earth: How to create mass prosperity (published by Biteback Publishing) by JP Floru In Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity, JP Floru investigates countries that have drastically reformed their economies to create durable growth and prosperity. In a series of case studies, contemporary and historical, the author considers the (more…)

Following the success of the two London Mises Circle meeting at the Institute of Economic Affairs in November and February, we are pleased to announce our schedule of upcoming meetings. The meetings will be held at the IEA on March 21st, and April 18th. We will be aiming to get the discussion going at 6:30pm with a fairly (more…)

An Evening Panel Discussion – Britain and Europe – if out, how? Speakers: Allister Heath, Editor, City A.M. Dr Andrew Lilico, Managing Director, Europe Economics Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser, Arbuthnot Banking Group Ian Milne, Director, Global Britain Mark Reckless, Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood Ronald Stewart-Brown, Director, Trade Policy Research Centre There is a wide (more…)

Ahead of the 2013 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 tackle rising living costs and foster growth. Speakers: Mark Littlewood (Chair), Director General, Institute of Economic Affairs Therese Coffey, MP for Suffolk Coastal Ben Gummer, MP (more…)

An Evening Panel Discussion – Beyond benefits – a new approach to poverty Speakers: Prof Philip Booth, Editorial Director, IEA; Janet Daley, Columnist, Sunday Telegraph; Baron Glasman of Stoke Newington and of Stamford Hill, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, London Guildhall University; Chris Goulden, Head of Poverty Team, Policy and Research, Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Kristian Niemietz, Poverty Research (more…)

The IEA’s annual State of the Economy conference will take place on 27 February 2013. There is an excellent line up of speakers including: Charlie Bean (Deputy Governor of the Bank of England); Jim O’Neill (Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management); Roger Bootle (Managing Director of Capital Economics); Ludger Schuknecht (Director General of the German Ministry (more…)