“The labour market continues to present a gloomy picture. While not as bad as some have feared, most of the important indicators are negative. Employment and vacancies are slightly down, inactivity ...

Matthew Elliott is a member of the House of Lords and one of the UK’s foremost public policy thinkers and campaigners. His most recent book, Prosperity Through Growth: Boosting Living Standards in an ...

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 ...

The Whetstone Freedom Fund (WFF) is an international initiative founded by the Institute of Economic Affairs in honour of the late Linda Whetstone, to support classical liberal ideas around the world.

Karl Marx never spelled out how exactly we know when the time is ripe for the socialist revolution. It’s not like, say, the theory of the optimum currency area, where there is a set checklist of ...

Recent years have seen sharp growth in the number and scale of class actions filed before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (‘Tribunal’). Pending claims are worth an estimated £134 billion. There are ...

As the Government reviews the system, new proposals are published today that would force funders to make early payouts to claimants, consolidate losses, and focus on economically sound cases Britain’s ...