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https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IEA_DP147_The-Genius-of-Adam-Smith_v3-Digital-1.pdf In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argues that individuals ...

Sales of legal tobacco have more than halved since 2021, according to an analysis of new data from HMRC. Tobacco sales figures published by the government on Friday revealed that the number of ...

This article was first published on the Institute of Economic Affairs Substack. Official figures recently published by HMRC indicate a huge rise in illicit tobacco sales in the UK since 2021. The ...

April 19 2016, Free Republic, Bernie’s right – America should be more like Sweden; But not in the way he thinks April 19 2016, Reason, Bernie’s right – America should be more like Sweden; But not in ...

The overview highlights the academic consensus on harmful consequences. Most studies (56 out of 65) find that rent controls succeed in lowering rents for controlled units, as intended. However, 14 out ...

It is commonly believed that, during the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher presided over a substantial reduction in government regulation of financial services. Indeed, some have blamed this deregulation for ...

When this blog was launched over a decade ago, most of my articles were rebuttals of the latest nonsense I had read in the Guardian or the Independent. Those publications are, unfortunately, still ...

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An increasingly prominent anti-capitalist narrative claims that empire and ...

Several local authorities in Britain have introduced ‘zoning laws’ to restrict fast food outlets within a certain distance of schools. Public Health England, the British Medical Association and the ...

Platforms are institutions that solve the problems of delivering a good or service, of clearing payments, and of creating trust between buyer and seller. In the past two decades, the physical ...