Immigration restrictions severely undermine the economic freedom of receiving-country citizens, as well as that of potential migrants. This impact affects both the ‘negative’ economic freedom valued ...

IEA Editorial Research Fellow Professor Len Shackleton was quoted in the Telegraph discussing reports that the Government is considering introducing a maximum workplace temperature. The article said: ...

“Case studies in recent economic history typically deal with unambiguous success stories, or unambiguous cautionary tales: countries that are either much richer, or much poorer, than their neighbours.

Commenting on data showing that the rate of inflation fell below the 2% target for the first time in three-and-a-half years to 1.7% in September, Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the free market ...

The IEA Book Club will be hosting an upcoming event with Sir Vernon Bogdanor on his latest book, “Making The … Continue ...

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 ...

Karl Marx’s influence among intellectual elites underwent a massive rebound in recent years. In 2018, mainstream publications including the New York Times, the Economist, and the Financial Times ran ...

While most people would probably agree that individuals should be free to consume adult entertainment even if others find it morally objectionable, few would argue that children should have access to ...

According to a recent YouGov poll, about 20% of the public believe that the NHS provides better-quality healthcare than other European health systems, while about 30% believe that other European ...

The new government has put economic growth at the heart of its agenda, but will their top-down plan work? Do we need a free market approach instead? This panel will look at tax, regulation, housing, ...

The last government occasionally paid homage to individual freedom, but pursued heavy-handed policies from seeking to ban tobacco for future generations to new online speech regulations and harsh ...

To paraphrase the old adage, ‘if you’re not a socialist by 25, you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative by 35, you have no brain’. However, polling suggests that younger generations are ...