At its quarterly (hybrid) meeting on 13 January 2026, the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee (SMPC), hosted by the Institute of Economic Affairs … Continue reading "SMPC Votes to Cut UK Base Rate by 25b ...

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Over the past forty years, global debt levels have risen to unprecedented heights, shaping everything ...

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. To mark the publication of Kathryn Porter’s latest paper, Just Stop Oil?, we are delighted to be ...

For this upcoming Teachers’ Seminar, we will dive into ‘Innovation and Regulation’. We will explore the driving forces behind innovation, how it contributes to economic growth, and how it can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Market failure’ is a term widely used by politicians, journalists and university and A-level economics students and teachers. However, those who use the term often lack any sense of proportion about ...

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 ...

https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Booth-BBC-Interactive.pdf In the past, the use of a compulsory levy on television sets (a licence fee) to finance the ...

Introductory Remarks In recent decades, economics and related policy sciences have taken what might be called a ‘behavioural turn’. Once-dominant theories of rationality and human behaviour have been ...

· In the past 50 years, labour market participation among older people has declined significantly, though the trend has reversed a little in recent years. In the EU, about 70 per cent of people aged ...