The Shadow Monetary Policy Committee (SMPC) is a group of independent economists whose purpose is to monitor the decisions of the Bank of England’s official Monetary Policy Committee and make policy ...

Sixth form entries: ‘How does monetary policy work? Explain how monetary decisions affect main macroeconomic outcomes such as the nominal GDP and inflation’. Undergraduate entries: ‘Explain how ...

IEA International Programmes Manager Harrison Griffiths has written for the Critic about the uncertain future of Europe’s economic stability. Harrison wrote: “On an individual level, lies do not ...

Julian Jessop will discuss the slowdown in productivity growth after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Some economists think this slowdown might be structural and long-lasting (‘secular stagnation’ ...

IEA Economics Fellow Julian Jessop was referenced in the Express on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s approach to the EU. The article said: “Julian Jessop of the Institute of Economic Affairs said the ...

Labour Reimagined: Policies for the Future of Work? I am delighted to invite you to an upcoming IEA panel discussion, ‘Labour Reimagined: Policies for the Future of Work? ’. This event will occur on ...

“The US in the late-19th century did have huge economic advantages which helped it become an industrial juggernaut, but these had little to do with tariffs. Among other factors, US industry had access ...

Is our history under attack? According to commentator and cultural historian, Dr Philip Kiszely, the answer is a resounding yes. In this episode of Parallax Views, IEA Head of Cultural Affairs, Marc ...

This blog post was first published on Institute of Economic Affairs Insider on Substack. Subscribe to receive IEA blogs straight to your inbox as soon as they are published. This is the sixth in a ...

The Freeports strategy announced by the previous government attempted to address today’s challenges with yesterday’s recipes, lacked the necessary deregulatory framework and failed to address key ...

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 ...

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