Economic Affairs will publish daily commentary, debate and analysis on growth, tax, regulation, housing, energy, and more, seven days a week, on Substack Regular contributors include leading free ...

Matthew McCaffrey is assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. He holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from Colorado State ...

Denmark’s tax on saturated fat was hailed as a world-leading public health policy when it was introduced in October 2011, but it was abandoned fifteen months later when the unintended consequences ...

New analysis suggests gross costs of net zero could exceed even the highest official predictions of £7.6 trillion Official estimates of the cost of net zero are often driven by “fantasy assumptions” ...

Platforms are institutions that solve the problems of delivering a good or service, of clearing payments, and of creating trust between buyer and seller. In the past two decades, the physical ...

Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial and domestic gas and electricity prices. The latest data for 2023 was ...

Over the third week of April, the IEA hosted three international delegations (two from Sweden and one from the Netherlands), who listened to a series of presentations. One of the speakers was the ...

Socialism is popular in the UK – not just among students, but also among people in their 30s and 40s. This is confirmed by survey after survey. Surveys also show that support for socialism in general ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs, the UK’s leading free-market think tank, has announced the appointment of Dr James Forder as Academic and Research Director. James is Andrew Graham Fellow and Tutor ...

This discussion paper provides the first estimate of the net effect of smoking on UK taxpayers per annum. Up until now, estimates have used a methodology that typically includes intangible costs, ...

When this blog was launched over a decade ago, most of my articles were rebuttals of the latest nonsense I had read in the Guardian or the Independent. Those publications are, unfortunately, still ...

Since 2019, there have been many attempts to put a cost on achieving net zero by 2050, with wildly different results. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has repeatedly revised down its estimates for ...