"…the IEA is always challenging and thought-provoking." – David Laws MP
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25 Oct 2011
Dr Steve Davies, Education Director at the IEA, exposes three persistent myths about the Great Depression, in a video made for the Institute for Humane Studies
25 Oct 2011
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25 Oct 2011
Dr Steve Davies, Education Director at the IEA, explains how classical liberal ideas grew as an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century and gradually gained popular support. This rise of political ideas based on free markets and individual...
25 Feb 2011
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25 Oct 2011
Dr Steve Davies, Education Director at the IEA, traces the decline of classical liberal/libertarian ideas from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century. He describes how the case for classical liberal ideas grew stale and fell prey to...
25 Feb 2011
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13 Oct 2011
A Conservative Party Conference panel discussion, featuring:
Kevin Bell, Institute of Economic Affairs (chair)
Chris Skidmore, MP for Kingswood
Elizabeth Truss, MP for South West Norfolk
Dominic Raab, MP for Esher and Walton
Iain...
4 Oct 2011
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11 Oct 2011
A Conservative Party Conference panel discussion, featuring:
Mark Littlewood, Institute of Economic Affairs (chair)
Allister Heath, editor of City AM
Anthony Hilton, journalist and political commentator
Sajid Javid, MP for Bromsgrove...
2 Oct 2011
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28 Sep 2011
A Liberal Democrat Conference panel discussion, featuring:
Michael Crick, Channel 4 News (chair)
Jeremy Browne, MP for Taunton Deane
James Forsyth, journalist and political commentator
Simon Goldie, Liberal Vision
David Laws, MP...
19 Sep 2011
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19 Sep 2011
An evening panel discussion on the government's proposed High Speed rail line, linking London and Birmingham and, in phase two, further on to Manchester and Leeds.
Speakers include:
Kyn Aizlewood, economic consultant and co-author,...
15 Sep 2011
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12 Jul 2011
Prof Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, delivers the Twentieth Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture, on the subject of 'Fiscal-Stimulus Packages'.
Opening remarks are provided by IEA Director General...
5 Jul 2011
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8 Jul 2011
Prof Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, delivers the Twentieth Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture, on the subject of 'Fiscal-Stimulus Packages'.
5 Jul 2011
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6 Jul 2011
Prof Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, delivers the Twentieth Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture, on the subject of 'Fiscal-Stimulus Packages'.
Opening remarks are provided by IEA Director General...
5 Jul 2011
Audio
6 Jul 2011
Prof Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, answers questions following his speech at the Twentieth Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture. The session is chaired by IEA Chairman, Prof David Myddelton.
5 Jul 2011
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10 May 2011
Medard Mulangala, parliamentary opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Secretary of the Economics and Finance Committee of the National Assembly, and former Minister for Mining and Energy, delivers a lecture at the IEA outlining the...
10 May 2011
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6 May 2011
In Unshackling Accountants , Professor D R Myddelton of Cranfield School of Management looks at the history of and the arguments for and against detailed accounting standards. Myddelton concludes that, while there may be a case for the accounting...
6 Jul 2004
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6 May 2011
In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the two big political and economic powers – the USA and the EU. This interview profiles a book arguing that this focus must change....
24 Apr 2008
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6 May 2011
In this short talk Mark Pennington critiques the belief held by many social democrats that the failure of past government interventions in social and economic life can be explained by the absence of social capital, and that government must...
20 Nov 2007
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6 May 2011
How is it that so many major, government-sponsored projects can lose so much money? As this short interview makes clear, the answer to this question does not lie with malign intentions on behalf of their promoters in government. In a highly readable...
11 Sep 2007
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6 May 2011
Helen Johns explains the key arguments her and Paul Ormerod make in their book Happiness, Economics and Public Policy. The publication analyses the economic research that underlies politicians’ growing preoccupation with measures of ‘wellbeing’.
In...
1 Aug 2007
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6 May 2011
Despite his fame, there is still widespread ignorance about the breadth of Adam Smith’s contributions to economics, politics and philosophy. In this short talk Eamonn Butler introduces the life and work of this ‘founder of economics’.
He uses...
26 Jul 2007
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5 May 2011
In this short talk Peter King outlines the main arguments he makes in his book, Choice and the End of Social Housing. He suggests that the provision of housing for the less well off has been dominated by the state for over sixty years. Despite some...
12 Jul 2007
Karol Boudreaux - Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development
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5 May 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa has received tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid over the last fifty years yet economic development has remained elusive. In many countries absolute poverty has increased and life expectancy has declined.
In this short talk...
18 Dec 2007