Contents Summary A free competitive market offers wide opportunities for individuals and businesses and is compatible with the framework of … Continue reading "Liberating the Labour Market" ...

Contents Foreword Studying economics especially at university can be a sterile and lifeless endeavour. In four out of five ...

Mandated employment benefits function as a ‘stealth payroll tax’ that ultimately reduce workers’ wages, not employers’ profits £5bn cost of new mandates in the Employment Rights Bill will be passed on ...

What is the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS)? Let’s start with the basics. The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK … Continue reading "Raising Our Allowance – Understanding Britain’s Emissions Trading ...

The only plausible explanation for the collapse in legal tobacco sales is that there has been rapid growth in tobacco sales on the black market. There were four significant increases in tobacco duty ...

The Government’s own impact assessment for its employment rights legislation estimates that the measures could cost businesses up to £5 billion annually. To start, this is a substantial amount. Past ...

Introduction Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial … Continue reading "We’re number one… in unaffordable ...

New IEA research highlights the clear economic consensus that rent controls do far more harm than good.

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An … Continue reading "Empire and slavery did not make Britain rich, finds new ...

Last Tuesday, the Guardian published an article entitled “The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis” by Nick Bano. It is another exercise in supply-side denial, ...

Many libertarians supported Brexit, believing it would reduce governmental layers and bring power closer to the British people. They saw … Continue reading "Why Brexit was a mistake, from a ...