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Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Follow him on Twitter here. George Osborne paid the price this week for getting things badly wrong in 2010. The initial so-called “Comprehensive” Spending Review when he took office failed to tackle the bloated public sector with sufficient vigour and relied on wildly optimistic […]
Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. The Chancellor is right to stick to his guns on deficit reduction. The dividing line in the debate is between those who believe that spending more on the bloated public sector would assist with the economic recovery and those who don’t. George Osborne is […]
Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Unsurprisingly, the government has been struggling somewhat with how to implement its policy of imposing an immigration cap on non-EU immigrants. Fortunately, in The Challenge of Immigration – a new paper published by the IEA today and available on our website – Nobel prize […]
Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. This is an edited version of remarks he gave at yesterday's 'Going for Growth' conference, hosted by ConservativeIntelligence. Going for growth is the key challenge for the Coalition. In fact, pretty much all their eggs are in the growth basket. If GDP does not […]
Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. The Comprehensive Spending Review deserves a cheer and a half, but not much more than that. The Coalition has developed a welcome single mindedness in getting the public finances under control, but they could have been both more radical and more methodical. They seem […]
Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), which exists to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems. Mark Thompson’s vigorous defence of the BBC’s role and contribution to broadcasting marks the first skirmish […]
Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), which exists to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems. The current flirtation of the main political parties with cuts cannot hope to solve Britain’s financial […]
In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.