This week will mark the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. It will be an occasion for a deluge of articles … Continue reading “Have Karl Marx’s ideas been ‘distorted’ by socialist regimes?”

How far has EU membership benefited the UK economy since 1973? A pro-EU colleague emailed me last week: “we’re the … Continue reading ““Despite Brexit” or “because of Brexit”?”

The IEA, on our 60th Anniversary, look back at the last 60 years – how the IEA came about, what … Continue reading “IEA at 60 – Past”

The purpose of a think tank – the clue is in the name – is to think big and holistically. … Continue reading “Thatcherism and British living standards”

The conventional wisdom in the mainstream poverty literature is that Margaret Thatcher’s policies caused an explosion of poverty. As one … Continue reading “Thatcherism and poverty: did the poor get poorer?”

The readers of the Daily Mail were not amused, judging from the multitude of furious comments below this article. The … Continue reading “Overworked Britons, leisurely continentals?”

Past experience is the foundation on which our beliefs about the desirability of different policies and institutions are mainly based … Continue reading “An alternative history: how poverty fell under Thatcherism”

This is the best non-partisan short book on “Thatcherism” and the 1979-1990 era to have appeared to date. It is … Continue reading “Book review: The Politics of the Thatcher Revolution by Geoffrey K. Fry”