When I visited my parents earlier this month, I stumbled across a book which I remember using as a reference … Continue reading “Classics revisited: “Globalisierung” by Helmut Schmidt (1998)”

This short “economics explainer” looks at the how the pattern of global income distribution has changed in the modern era … Continue reading “Globalisation and inequality – a good news story”

Last spring, my colleague Chris Snowdon compiled an amusing Twitter thread highlighting examples of commentators and activists who were using … Continue reading “Enough of the “coronfirmation bias” – the pandemic has not vindicated anyone”

Long-standing battles on the role and size of the state won’t be settled by a virus, says a new briefing paper from Dr Kristian … Continue reading “Claims that “austerity” is to blame for UK’s poor pandemic response are “baseless,” says new IEA research”

COVID-19 has caused huge disruptions to global trade and supply chains, both directly and indirectly (as a result of policy … Continue reading “Global supply chains in a post-COVID world”

In response to Australia and the United Kingdom formally launching negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement, IEA Academic and Research … Continue reading “IEA expert responds to the formal launch of UK-Australia trade negotiations”

…continued from Part 1.   No discussion of globalisation would be complete without considering some of the myths that have … Continue reading “Now is not the time to go soft on globalisation (Part 2)”

The progress that free trade and globalisation have achieved are coming under severe threat from the Covid-19 pandemic. There are … Continue reading “Now is not the time to go soft on globalisation (Part 1)”

There are features of our way of life and some of our economic systems that make outbreaks like Covid-19 more … Continue reading “How fragile systems worsened the impact of COVID-19”