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7 Dec 2010
On 23rd November 2009 the IEA hosted a debate on Climate Change. The participants discussed the question: “Do Science and Economics Support Government Action on Climate Change?”. Each speaker provided a different perspective on the...
23 Nov 2009
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7 Dec 2010
In this video Stephen Copp discusses his recent book The Legal Foundations of Free Markets. In it he brings together some of the world’s leading figures in the field of law and economics to discuss questions that are central to our...
26 Aug 2006
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7 Dec 2010
In this short interview John Blundell talks about his paper Waging the War of Ideas, examining how wars of ideas can be waged, using his extensive experience of classical liberal think tanks.
John Blundell begins his stimulating collection of...
7 Mar 2007
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7 Dec 2010
Throughout history, but particularly in the last century or so, the Catholic Church has developed a formal body of teaching on economics and political matters. Other Christian faiths have absorbed much of that work, as have non-Christians, and thus...
23 May 2007
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7 Dec 2010
In this video 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
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7 Dec 2010
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 ‘...
1 Aug 2007
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7 Dec 2010
In this interview 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 intervene...
20 Nov 2007
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7 Dec 2010
Richard D. North sets out the benefits of mass affluence and explains why 'rich is beautiful'.
28 Nov 2007
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7 Dec 2010
A recent IEA student/teachers' workshop featured sessions led by Dr Mark Pennington on “Environmentalists: Nice but Wrong?”; Dr Stephen Davies on “Trade, Trade Connections and History”; Dr John Meadowcroft on “...
28 Nov 2007
Video
7 Dec 2010
A recent IEA student/teachers' workshop featured sessions led by Dr Mark Pennington on “Environmentalists: Nice but Wrong?”; Dr Stephen Davies on “Trade, Trade Connections and History”; Dr John Meadowcroft on “...
28 Nov 2007
Video
7 Dec 2010
A recent IEA student/teachers' workshop featured sessions led by Dr Mark Pennington on “Environmentalists: Nice but Wrong?”; Dr Stephen Davies on “Trade, Trade Connections and History”; Dr John Meadowcroft on “...
28 Nov 2007
Karol Boudreaux - Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development
Video
7 Dec 2010
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...
18 Dec 2007
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7 Dec 2010
The ‘nanny state’ has expanded in recent years. Politicians and bureaucrats have increasingly sought to restrict what individuals are permitted to do with their own bodies or their own property. In this video John Meadowcroft talks...
4 Mar 2008
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7 Dec 2010
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...
24 Apr 2008
Video
7 Dec 2010
In the last fifty years, many aspects of socialism have been rolled back around the world. Indeed, in the 1990s, following the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, it seemed as if classical liberal ideas had triumphed. But this did...
10 Jul 2008
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