20 July 2008
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 Primer26 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 Version29 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 Economy23 May 2007 A new perspective on how Christians should approach issues of public policy |
Choice and the End of Social Housing12 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 Reconsidered17 November 2004 A robust examination and critique of statist solutions to energy and environmental problems. |
Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed01 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 Trade01 March 2000 |
Government Failure: E. G. West on Education05 December 2003 |
Happiness, Economics and Public Policy01 August 2007 A robust critique of the so-called 'economics of happiness' |
IEA Catalogue 2006/2007This 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 Planning18 March 2002 |
Money, Inflation and the Constitutional Position of Central Bank17 April 2003 |
Pricing Our Roads: Vision and Reality06 November 2004 A lucid investigation of the economic, environmental, practical and congestion effects of the adoption of road pricing |
Public Service Broadcasting Without the BBC?07 February 2005 Essential reading for all those interested in quality broadcasting in a competitive market environment |
The Economics of Fair Trade: A Christian Perspective16 July 2008 Why Christians should think twice before putting fair trade on a pedestal |
The Economics of Law03 April 2007 An accessible overview of the economic approach to law, introducing cost-benefit analysis, public choice theory and property rights perspectives. Special Price £6.00 (Usual Price £12.00) |
The Poverty of Development Economics22 July 2002 Special Offer Publication. Normal Price £15.00, Special Price £7.50 |
The Road to Serfdom19 July 2005 The Reader's Digest condensed version of 'The Road to Serfdom'. Now includes 'The Intellectuals and Socialism' |
The Role of Business in the Modern World27 July 2004 David Henderson examines the role and conduct of business today, against the background of changes over the last sixty years |
The Vote Motive20 December 2006 A new edition of this classic introduction to public choice theory |
Towards a Liberal Utopia?09 February 2005 In this, the IEA's fiftieth anniversary special, numerous commentators and IEA friends reflect on the prospects for liberty over the next fifty years |
Tropical Rain Forest: A Political Ecology of Hegemonic Mythmaking01 November 1999 |
Waging the War of Ideas07 March 2007 Third and expanded edition of this popular IEA book |
Were 364 Economists All Wrong?08 March 2006 A discussion of the impact and legacy of the seminal 1981 Budget. Special Offer £5.00 (Usual Price £10.00) |
audio
The following audio presentation of IEA monographs are intended for teacher student discussion. Each is a short audio file.
- Adam Smith - A Primer (19 megabytes)
- Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy (11 megabytes)
- Happiness, Economics and Public Policy (9 megabytes)
- Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development (7 megabytes)
- Prohibitions (7 megabytes)
- Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (10 megabytes)
- They Meant Well, Government Project Disasters (9 megabytes)
- Trade Policy, New Century: The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising (9 megabytes)
- Unshackling Accountants (11 megabytes)
- Waging the War of Ideas (7 megabytes)
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