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Analysis, argument, and debate from those who know prosperity follows freedom. Read the writers setting the terms of Britain’s economic debate here daily, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs.

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Are We Becoming Two Nations? | IEA Podcast

Watch now | In this week’s IEA podcast, Director General Lord Daniel Hannan is joined by regulars Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics, and Dr Kristian Niemietz, Editorial Director, to discuss the widening pay gap between the public and private sectors, the real cost of net zero, and the economics of gambling sponsorship in football.

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The Great Stagnation: Briefing 5

There is no UK productivity puzzle

Extant EU regulation, high energy prices and a large public sector burden the economy

Britain's Tax Burden Is at a Post-War High. Here's Why It Matters | IEA Interview

Watch now | In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, IEA Managing Editor Daniel Freeman speaks with Tom Clougherty, Executive Director of the IEA, about Britain’s tax system and its role in the country’s growth slowdown.

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Post-earthquake Colombia needs no Marshall Plan

The country needs to free its economy with Ludwig Erhard-type, free market reforms

Employment: the revenge of the Econ101 textbook

Britain used to create jobs, even in bad times. We are now squandering this asset.

One in Four Britons Now Claim to Be Disabled | James Bartholomew | IEA Interview

Listen now | In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, IEA Director General Lord Hannan interviews James Bartholomew, author and leading expert on the UK welfare state, and director of the Museum of Communist Terror.

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Lessons for today from the 2008 bank bailout

Governments' footprints were all over the crisis

Reform wants to save £50bn. But how?

Reorganising the welfare system is not the same as cutting the welfare bill

Britain is choosing to be poor

We struggle to imagine the poverty to which we are condemning our descendants

Burnham's betting shop crackdown

Plus: the real reason your electricity bill is so high

Corporation Tax and the UK Economy

Subsiding intangible investment has failed to raise the rate of growth

Brexit allows the UK to bypass EU tech stagnation

Independence can make the British economy less European and more American

Iceland's EU referendum: "No" is a vote for freedom

Icelanders usually know better than foreign bureaucrats what is in their own interest

Why the NHS Isn't the Bargain You Think It Is

Watch now | In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, IEA Director General Lord Hannan is joined by Kristian Niemietz, Editorial Director and Head of Political Economy, and Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics.

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