Philip Hammond’s decision in this week’s budget to abandon the Private Finance Initiative has been regarded by some commentators as … Continue reading “PFI’s defeat stems from poor government provision – not market failure”

Since the UK’s first low-cost private primary school of its kind was opened this term by James Tooley, it seems … Continue reading “Low-cost private schools are transforming education around the world. We should let them do the same in Britain”

The idea of the “Entrepreneurial State” or the “state as investor” has taken off in recent years – following the … Continue reading “Debunking the ‘State-as-Investor’”

In all the finger pointing that has followed the collapse of Carillion, in Parliament and the newspapers, it is hard … Continue reading “The interface of the private and the public sector: impressions from the front line”

The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP was the keynote speaker at the IEA’s 60th Anniversary celebrations. He spoke about what … Continue reading “IEA at 60 – Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP”

Unless you have spent the last two decades in North Korea or in Josef Fritzl’s basement, you will be familiar … Continue reading “The Maggie Simpson delusion: the NHS is not ‘ours’”

For entrepreneurs to succeed, they need space to innovate that is sufficiently free of regulatory constraints, buyers who are receptive … Continue reading “Transforming incentives will unleash the power of entrepreneurship in the education sector”

In 2003 the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) set up the Commission on the Private Sector and Development which was … Continue reading “The UN and the profit motive in education”

The Office for National Statistics has published a new estimate of the size of the hourly pay gap between the … Continue reading “Pay gap between public and private sectors has increased”