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 ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), is the UK’s original free market think tank. We produce cutting-edge research on economic policy, public spending, regulation, and individual freedom, and play ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

The cost-of-living crisis has been worsened by longer-term structural factors, beyond the immediate issues posed by loose monetary policy and supply-side constraints. Indeed, there were discussions ...

· 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An increasingly prominent anti-capitalist narrative claims that empire and ...

The UK’s trade patterns with the EU fail to show a Brexit effect, either since the referendum or the end of the transition period. Trade continued to grow between 2016 and the conclusion of the Brexit ...