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Hayek’s Nobel: 50 Years On
Contents Foreword Friedrich August von Hayek never formally worked for the Institute of Economic Affairs, but he was ...
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IEA Ralph Harris Centenary Lecture
This commemorative lecture pays tribute to the life, legacy, and contributions of Ralph Harris (1924–2006), a pioneering ...
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Not Invented Here #5 – Food
This is the fifth in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are challenged by practical solutions. This edition is written by guest ...
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Yet another nanny state policy crashes and burns
Responding to a new study showing that calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector failed to reduce calorie consumption Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the free market think tank ...
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Mayor of London’s ‘rent controls’ not a solution
Commenting on Sadiq Khan’s new ‘rent controls’, IEA Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz said: “For years, Sadiq Khan has been lobbying successive governments to give him the powers to introduce rent ...
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Get Britain Working White Paper published today ‘square root of nothing much at all’, according to IEA Fellow
Responding to the DWP White Paper ‘Get Britain Working’ published today (26 November), Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the IEA said: “The Government’s Get Britain Working ...
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Living Red: My father’s life under Hoxha’s Albania (Part 2)
Every year on 8 December, Albanians celebrate Youth Day. On this day in 1990, brave students led protests that ultimately brought an end to the oppressive reign of communism. My father was one of ...
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Panel Discussion: Hayek’s Nobel 50 Years On
On 11 December 1974 Friedrich Hayek gave his Nobel Prize lecture which would prove a turning point in the history of economics. Titled ‘The Pretence of Knowledge’, Hayek’s lecture was both a warning ...
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The NHS remains a laggard despite record levels of funding
Chancellor Reeves tries to justify new taxes on farmers and others by insisting they will fund the NHS. So, once again, government throws huge sums at the NHS, without the necessary reforms both to ...
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Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy Revised Second Edition
The second edition of Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy is a much expanded and updated version of a previous book, published in 2007, which critically examines the case for state ...
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A Tribute to Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer (Lord Bauer) was an economist of considerable influence, particularly on the prevailing wisdom about the value of foreign aid (‘government-to-government transfers’, as he preferred to call ...