One of the frustrating things about being an economist is that people listen to you when they shouldn’t, and refuse … Continue reading “Rent controls: the revenge of Econ 101”

While Friedrich Hayek penned The Road to Serfdom in wartime Britain, on the other side of the world another Viennese … Continue reading “Review: The Open Society and its Enemies, Volume 1, by Karl Popper”

December 24, 2018 Dear (Saint) Nicholas, Thank you once again for your peer review of my latest work, The Road … Continue reading “Friedrich Hayek’s Christmas Letter”

In every period of history, there are some ideas that are generally accepted. People who disagree about most things will … Continue reading “Sometimes, smart people make the worst leaders”

It seems that everybody wants more social justice. If you Google the term, you get 714,000,000 responses. The most commonly-read … Continue reading “Reclaiming social justice from the redistributionists”

Hayek famously wrote that he was not a conservative. But, 25 years after his death, that does not mean he … Continue reading “Hayek was not a conservative. But conservatives should be Hayekians”

Martin Durkin, television and film producer and creator of Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story, and Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary spoke … Continue reading “Launch of The Paragon Initiative – Martin Durkin”

Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist and member of the House of Lords, was awarded the IEA Free Enterprise … Continue reading “Interview with Matt Ridley – Winner of the Free Enterprise Award”

There are so many popular myths about Lady Thatcher and the IEA it is hard to know where to start … Continue reading “Lady Thatcher and the IEA”