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This paper combines insights from welfare economics, political philosophy and cross-disciplinary well-being research to defend preference-based approaches to welfare evaluations in public policy ...

Contents Summary The Freeports strategy announced by the previous government attempted to address today’s challenges with ...

Freeports strategy in the UK is insufficient, adding more bureaucracy and red tape for short term political gain instead of using economic freedom to drive growth Newer iterations of freeports, ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is hosting a Sixth Form Conference in partnership with the Perse School on Wednesday 15th January 2025. At the conference, students will have the opportunity to ...

Commenting on the announcement of the AI Opportunities Action Plan, Matthew Lesh, Public Policy Fellow at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “AI is already having a ...

Commenting on the latest inflation data, Economics Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs Julian Jessop said: “The small fall in inflation in December is a rare piece of good news on the UK ...

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 ...

In 2016, the IEA and EPICENTER launched the first edition of Dr Christopher Snowdon’s ‘Nanny State Index’, which tries to measure the degree of restrictiveness of paternalistic policies that interfere ...

“The focus on increased patient choice, including of independent-sector providers, is clearly a positive step, which picks up where the Blair/Brown-era reforms left off around 2008. These choice-based ...