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20 July 2008

students and teachers

students and teachers





IEA Student Essay Competition 2008

1st prize £1000, 3 runner up prizes of £500

Answer the following question in aproximately 1,500 words:
How, where and why do markets fail and what is the answer?

Entries must be submitted by 10th July 2008, by email to Christine Blundell or by post to Christine Blundell, IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London SW1P 3LB. Please include your name, the name of your school and your date of birth on a separate sheet.

* THE COMPETITION IS OPEN TO STUDENTS AGED 18 OR UNDER*


As well as being welcome to all our public events the IEA puts on special events for students and teachers, normally in Westminster. Also, bursaries for students and teachers are available to allow them to attend our annual Political Economy Conference and Annual State of the Economy Conference free of charge. We also often have bursaries available for postgraduate university students and higher education lecturers for our industry conferences.

Students and teachers can receive all IEA publications by subscribing at the discounted rate of £30. Please contact Adam Myers for further details. Schools and teachers can subscribe to the IEA journal, Economic Affairs, for only £25. Subscribers receive four hard copy issues a year and also have free electronic access to the whole back archive. If a school subscribes, electronic access can be arranged for all students and teachers within the school via the school intranet.

The monthly minutes of the IEA Shadow Monetary Policy Committee may also be of interest to economics’ students and teachers.

If you would like to be included on the mailing list for future events or for our annual essay competition, please email Christine Blundell, Director of Student and Teacher Outreach Programmes.

Student and Teacher Workshop Videos

Our workshop for teachers on November 28th 2007 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 “Social Capital and the Culture of the Market”; and Richard D North on “Rich Really is Beautiful”. We have video presentations of the workshop below (approx 20 minutes each video). Click below to view the presentations:

Introduction by John Blundell

Mark Pennington on environmentalism

Steve Davies on trade

John Meadowcroft on social capital

Richard North on Rich is Beautiful


All IEA publications are rigorous yet written in a way that makes them accessible to students and teachers of economics at all levels. IEA monographs can be downloaded for free from IEA publications page. Our favourite publications for students and teachers are listed below. Some of these publications include audio files which you can download and use for teaching and learning purposes either from the bottom of this page or from the relevant monograph page in "IEA Publications".





Adam Smith - A Primer

26 July 2007

An authoritative introduction to the life and work of Adam Smith which covers both the Wealth of Nations and his other great works

Capitalism: A Condensed Version

29 March 2007

A masterly exposition of the benefits of the market system and the deficiencies of the welfare state

Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy

23 May 2007

A new perspective on how Christians should approach issues of public policy

Choice and the End of Social Housing

12 July 2007

Peter King proposes radical reform of the system of support for housing costs and the abolition of social housing. Special Offer £5.00 (Usual Price £10.00)

Climate Alarmism Reconsidered

17 November 2004

A robust examination and critique of statist solutions to energy and environmental problems.

Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed

01 August 2002

A collection of short journal columns which refute some common economic fallacies. Special Offer - Only £4.00 (Usual Price £12.50)

Fur and Freedom: in Defence of the Fur Trade

01 March 2000

Government Failure: E. G. West on Education

05 December 2003

Happiness, Economics and Public Policy

01 August 2007

A robust critique of the so-called 'economics of happiness'

IEA Catalogue 2006/2007

This new catalogue details the IEA publications to be released in 2006 and 2007. It also includes comprehensive information on recently published work and a complete list of our publications in print.

Liberating the Land: The Case for Private Land-Use Planning

18 March 2002

Money, Inflation and the Constitutional Position of Central Bank

17 April 2003

audio

The following audio presentation of IEA monographs are intended for teacher student discussion. Each is a short audio file.

Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3LB | tel: 020 7799 8900 | fax: 020 7799 2137 | email: iea@iea.org.uk

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