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Many readers will be familiar with the concept of the Bootleggers and Baptists, in which self-interested businesses find common cause with moral busybodies in rigging the market against consumers. The ...

Responding to the Spending Review, Tom Clougherty, Executive Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “For all the preceding rhetoric, it is very clear that no ‘zero-based’ review of ...

Reem Ibrahim was quoted in the Telegraph, the Mirror, my London News, and Birmingham Live on free transport for the over-60s. The Telegraph article said: “Providing free transport for over-60s in ...

Communications Manager Reem Ibrahim has written for FEE on the Nanny State Index. The article said: “Governments across the world insist on telling adults how they must behave. The liberty to make ...

“The 0.3% fall in UK GDP in April is another lesson in basic economics. “The contraction was partly due to the unwinding of the temporary boost in the first quarter, when manufacturers had brought ...

Director of Communications Callum Price has written about the spending review in LBC. The article said: “What we got instead was a list of spending promises with a host of numbers that, without ...

This publication comprises a reappraisal of the work of John Maynard Keynes. It strengthens the view that the Keynesians went too far in supposing that the old economics had been overthrown by the new ...