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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the loose European monetary policy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are major drivers of inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, they are not its only causes. High consumer prices are often the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The overview highlights the academic consensus on harmful consequences. Most studies (56 out of 65) find that rent controls succeed in lowering rents for controlled units, as intended. However, 14 out ...

April 19 2016, Free Republic, Bernie’s right – America should be more like Sweden; But not in the way he thinks April 19 2016, Reason, Bernie’s right – America should be more like Sweden; But not in ...

New research from the IEA outlines the serious shortfalls of the REF scheme as a way to fund higher education. New evidence from international sex surveys show large and continuing differences between ...

If we go by the dictionary, this seems like a very straightforward and unambiguous matter. The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines it as a “social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than ...

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 ...