This week the IEA published a new study I wrote, looking at the extraordinary social experiment of lockdown and what … Continue reading “Lessons from lockdown for (anti-)alcohol policy”

When minimum unit pricing was introduced in Scotland in May 2018, it became illegal to sell alcohol for less than … Continue reading “An evaluation of Scotland’s minimum alcohol pricing experiment”

After a prolonged campaign and a series of court cases, minimum unit pricing for alcohol (MUP) was introduced in Scotland … Continue reading “Minimum Unit Pricing is paternalistic, regressive and seemingly ineffective”

The following letter has been written in response to ‘Under the influence’, an article by Jonathan Gornall which appeared in … Continue reading “Minimum alcohol pricing: a response to the British Medical Journal”

Jamie Whyte’s superb new book Quack Policy, published by the IEA last week, has provoked some controversy on Twitter. The publication … Continue reading “The Bluff of Evidence-Based Policy”

Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with many deleterious effects on individual health.  Its negative impact on wider society includes crime … Continue reading “Pigovian taxes and minimum pricing”