A heretic's manifesto

We need more heretics. Throughout history, it has been those brave enough to puncture the prevailing groupthink who have propelled society forward. But they are in shockingly short supply today. In this collection of original essays, Brendan O’Neill remakes the case for heresy – and commits a few...

Facing up to climate reality: honesty, disaster and hope

We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon. The reality is different. Things are going to get much worse, for a long time, whatever we now do - though hardly anyone wants to admit it.

Our european future: charting a progressive course in the world

Happiness, economics and public policy

Digital transformation at scale: why the strategy is delivery

Choice, contract, consent

A u-turn on the road to serfdom

Governments throughout the Western world are spending at levels that could not have been imagined by pre-war economists even by people such as Keynes. High levels of government spending have had a significant effect on economic growth and on economic freedom. In his 2013 Hayek lecture, Grover Nor...

Federal britain

This book proposes that the UK should develop a federal structure of government with only a small number of functions such as defence and border control being determined at the UK level. All other functions would be the ultimate responsibility of individual nations within the UK.

War between the state and the family

Shows how tax and benefits policy has undermined family life in Britain and encouraged fraud and dishonesty. This title also shows how the tax and benefits systems are particularly harsh on single-earner couples who have to earn over GBP50,000 before there is no loss from declaring their relation...

The shadow economy

A comprehensive survey of the existent widespread shadow economy--accounting for around one tenth of economic activity in the UK and more than one quarter of economic activity in some European countries--this work examines the size, causes, and possible solutions to the problem of such economic a...

The benefits of tax competition

Beginning with a primer on international taxation, this IEA monograph shows why the arguments used by governments to prevent tax competition are fallacious. It also outlines the threats to tax competition from the EU and OECD, and proposes ways in which the UK government should respond to those t...

Rethinking drug courts: international experiences of a us policy export

Britain’s cities, britain’s future

Why did Britain's cities, once the engines of the industrial revolution, decline so severely? What needs to be done if our cities are once again to be the drivers of our economy? This book answers these questions, looking at the lessons of the last two hundred years. .

Against the grain

Economists and economics have been harshly criticized recently. This book accepts many of the criticisms of conventional theory but argues that the fundamental insights of economics are capable of reinterpretation and reinvention to deal with a host of contemporary concerns - social networks, glo...

Advertising in a free society (critical)

Housing: where’s the plan?

Public choice

'Market failure' is a term widely used by politicians, journalists and university and A-level economics students and teachers. However, those who use the term often lack any sense of proportion about the ability of government to correct market failures. This arises partly from the lack of general...

Classical liberalism - a primer

Classical liberalism is one of the most important of modern political and social philosophies, crucial in bringing the modern world into existence. This book is an introduction to this way of thinking. It is highly suitable for students of the social sciences.

Taxation and red tape

Successive governments have promised to reduce business red tape, whilst doing nothing about it. In fact, with regard to the tax system, ever-greater numbers of taxes and ever-greater complexity have increased burdens on business. This book shows that this should not be the case, and propose ways...

Sixty years on - who cares for the nhs?

This groundbreaking new study shows that, although the politicians do not feel confident in proposing radical new models of health care, elite opinion in the media, in political circles, in academia, and in policy think tanks has fallen out of love with the idea of a centrally planned health serv...

Travel fast or smart?

Sea change

Business leadership under fire: nine steps to rescue and transform organizations

Policy stability and economic growth

John Taylor is one of the foremost economists of our generation.This book presents Taylor's view of the financial crisis and its aftermath.

Quack policy

Politicians and lobbyists who promote new regulations and taxes typically claim to have science on their side. Scientific evidence shows that the actions they wish to discourage are harmful and that government intervention would reduce this harm. Yet much 'evidence-based policy' is grounded on po...

Why study geography?

Considering studying geography at university? Wondering whether a geography degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it's actually like to study geography at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know.

Brexit 2015

Ludwig von mises--a primer

Ludwig von Mises was one of the greatest economists and political scientists of the twentieth century. He revolutionised the understanding of money, inflation and recessions; comprehensively refuted the arguments for socialism; and, provided a devastating critique of the methodologies of mainstre...

Climate change policy: challenging the activists

There is currently a consensus amongst the political establishment--and amongst the intellectual communities that feed into it--that detailed and wide-ranging government intervention is necessary to combat the effects of climate change and this monograph challenges that consensus. With contributi...

Which road ahead - government or market?

In this volume, the authors propose the privatization of the UK road network. In doing so, they examine the traditional objections to privatization and find them wanting. With lively discussion and making good use of practical examples, the authors also look at related issues such as road taxatio...

A market in airport slots?

Socialism, economic calculation and entrepreneurship

This highly topical book presents a new theory on the characteristics of entrepreneurial knowledge. It explores the recent shift among professional economists and scholars in their evaluation of the debate of socialism. Socialism, Economic Calculation and Entrepreneurship presents an application ...

Waging the war of ideas

Paths to property

Argues that instead of traditional approaches to development policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, the focus needs to be on adoption of sound political and legal institutions, with private property rights to encourage entrepreneurship and economic growth. This book examines case studies of property right...

Selfishness, greed and capitalism

This book attempts to correct many of the economic myths that prevail in public discourse and which are often promoted in schools and even universities. It begins by examining straw men, such as the assertion that economists believe that people behave selfishly or that economists think that GDP i...

Capital controls

Free capital movements played an important part in the economic integration and globalisation of the nineteenth century. This work analyses historical experience with capital controls, in Britain and elsewhere, and reviews the theory. It concludes that such controls are damaging and that there is...

Before babylon, beyond bitcoin

Iea yearbook of government performance 2002

The currency cold war: cash and cryptography, hash rates and hegemony