I stumbled across a copy of Professor Alan Evans’s book No Room! No Room! in one of the IEA’s archives a few years ago when I was looking for something completely unrelated, started reading a few ...

Britain’s housing market is broken, with housing affordability in London so poor that median house prices are nearly 12 times the median annual income. Rent consumes over a third of gross income for ...

“The focus on increased patient choice, including of independent-sector providers, is clearly a positive step, which picks up where the Blair/Brown-era reforms left off around 2008. These choice-based ...

“I have previously criticised the Starmer government’s NHS reform plans as reheated Blairism. They rediscover reforms that were already implemented 20 years ago, repackage them a bit, and pass them ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is hosting a Sixth Form Conference in partnership with the Portsmouth Grammar School on Thursday 13th February 2025. At the conference, students will have the ...

It is not a choice between health and freedom. Fix the nanny state and let people enjoy Christmas and New Year’s Eve The Nanny State Index ranks 30 European countries on the over-regulation of food, ...

Commenting on today’s GDP figures showing that UK economy shrunk by 0.1% in October, Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “The second ...

The IEA is an educational charity and free market think tank. Our mission is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commenting on the recent decision of Vauxhall to close their Luton van production plant with the loss of 1,100 jobs, Energy Analyst Andy Mayer at the free market Institute of Economic Affairs said: ...

This is the third in a series of articles about how pressure groups often oppose a practical solution to a problem if they did not devise it themselves. “Not Invented Here” syndrome is a well known ...