Hayek – much more than money – Philip Booth
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Why the 2005 Gambling Act never paid off
The IEA is asking a panel why the 2005 Gambling Act never paid off: …many of the liberalising measures mooted for the 2005 Gambling Act were dropped by a Labour administration beset by a bruising press campaign – warning of “blackjack on every street corner” – and hamstrung by pre-election jitters. But is it...
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Hayek’s view of Thatcher and Reagan
The IEA offer a solution to the questions of Hayek’s relationship with Thatcher and Reagan at their lecture of 5 September 2012. Each year during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership she attended the annual IEA lectures in memory of Friedrich Hayek, whose work she greatly admired. While they mostly agreed on the general direction of public...
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Authur Laffer on the Laffer Curve
a few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century Time I remember once passing a stall manned by socialists and surrounded by a small huddle of voters. I had a few seconds, but only a few seconds, to express my distaste before getting back to paid work. I listened for a...
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IEA Occasional Lecture: Why Government keeps growing with Yaron Brook
Yaron Brook will speak for IEA to argue that “to successfully stop the growth of the state, Americans will have to discover that laissez-faire capitalism is the only moral system – one that must be defended without guilt”. The talk will take place at IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1 on 19 June...
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Some interesting stuff from the IEA
Prof Philip Booth gets to the truth about austerity in the UK and other EU countries. Is it me, or was that line for Greece flat? Let’s take a closer look:
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IEA Occasional Lecture: Crony Capitalism vs. Entrepreneurial Capitalism
President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Fred L Smith Jnr, will be delivering a talk for the IEA at 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1. He will passionately suggest “that an alliance of entrepreneurial capitalists and free market intellectuals is essential if liberty is to survive”. Quite so. The talk occurs on 12 July...
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IEA Occasional Lecture: Hayek v. Keynes
The IEA announcement explains: The great Austrian economist Hayek was the principal defender of the classical policies of Adam Smith and Keynes‘s chief antagonist. The classical model of Adam Smith, his “system of natural liberty,” favoured saving, balanced budgets, sound money (gold standard), free trade and laissez faire. Keynes’s “new” economics sought to turn the classical...
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April events
Dates for your diary: 10th April 7pm- The Westminster Village Pub Quiz- The Freedom Association’s monthly event at the Old Star pub. Max 5 per team, £2 to enter and each member of the winning team will receive a bottle of Freedom Lager! 18th April- The Euro ‘end game’?- The IEA and Bloomberg host a...
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Hayek Memorial Lecture
This Thursday brings the IEA’s Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture with Professor Elinor Ostrom, speaking on the “Future of the Commons: Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation.” Wikipedia summarises her work thusly: Ostrom is considered one of the leading scholars in the study of common pool resources (CPR). In particular, Ostrom’s work emphasizes how humans...
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