Free markets under siege

Explains how there are substantial gains to be made from countries getting 'easy' policy decisions correct. This work explains how liberal economists, politicians and civil servants often spend much time discussing 'difficult' cases. It uses evidence and analysis derived from the disciplines of b...

Verdict on the crash: causes and policy implications

This title features contributions from James Alexander, Michael Beenstock, Philip Booth, Eamonn Butler, Tim Congdon, Laurence Copeland, Kevin Dowd, John Greenwood, Samuel Gregg, John Kay, David Llewellyn, Alan Morrison, D. R Myddelton, Anna Schwartz and Geoffrey Wood. This book challenges the myt...

Myth of social cost

Government failure

Working to rule

This book combines a history of employment laws with analysis of the troublesome effects of various interventions. The author argues for a fundamental rethink. Some basic labour market regulation may still be necessary, but less than we currently have.

Before babylon, beyond bitcoin

Technology is changing money and this book looks at where it might be taking us.

The henry fords of healthcar

The end of macroeconomics

Travel fast or smart?

This book sets out the principles that could underpin a strategic policy for transport. Instead of focusing piecemeal on trying (and failing) to get from place to place ever faster, we need to think about how and where we want the economy to develop, and about how new the digital technologies can...

Digital bricks and mortar

The digital age has revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives, from communication and commerce to entertainment and education. Yet, amid this transformative wave, one industry remains stubbornly entrenched in the past: the property market. Consumers are left to navigate a labyrinth of antiq...

The ice age

This is a book about the legacy of the Great Financial Crisis for the European Union which continues to struggle with a policy of austerity and the resulting low growth, high unemployment and strains on its welfare systems.

Waging the war of ideas 2015

This book discusses how 'wars of ideas' can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal think tanks.

Money and asset prices in boom and bust

Considers events such as the Great Depression, episodes of boom and bust in the UK, and the malaise in Japan in the 1990s and the early 21st century. This title shows how monetary policy affects both financial markets and the real economy. It argues that fluctuations in money supply growth led to...

The global education industry

James Tooley challenged the wisdom that private education fosters social and economic inequality. On the contrary, he found that the private sector, as well as being innovative, often provides creative social responsibility programmes, subsidised places and student loan schemes. Here, he provides...

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...

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...