IEA Podcast

On this USA SPECIAL episode of Live with Littlewood, IEA Director General Mark Littlewood was joined by:

Jon Caldara - President, Independence Institute (@IITV )

Antonella Marty - Associate Director PR & Influencer Relations, Atlas Network (@Atlas Network @Antonella Marty Oficial )

Michael Carnuccio - Founder & CEO, JTK Group

Patrick Basham - Founding Director, Democracy Institute

 

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In this episode, the IEA's Emily Carver, Kristian Niemietz and Marc Glendening sit down to discuss the threats posed to free speech by the encroachment of cultural leftism in our institutions.

Emily Carver is the Institute of Economic Affairs’ Head of Media, responsible for managing and growing the IEA’s media output. Prior to joining the IEA in October 2019, Emily worked as Policy Adviser to a Conservative MP. Previously, she spent a year at public relations agency, Edelman. She has a degree in modern languages from Bristol University and an MSc in European Politics from the LSE.

Dr Kristian Niemietz joined the IEA in 2008 as Poverty Research Fellow, becoming its Senior Research Fellow in 2013, Head of Health and Welfare in 2015 and Head of Political Economy in 2018. Kristian is also a Fellow of the Age Endeavour Fellowship. He studied Economics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Universidad de Salamanca, graduating in 2007 as Diplom-Volkswirt. In 2013, he completed a PhD in Political Economy at King’s College London.

Marc Glendening is Head of Cultural Affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Before that he worked for Policy Exchange focusing on freedom of speech related issues and the political implications of human rights law. In 2011 he co-founded as political director of the cross-party Democracy Movement, the People’s Pledge. This campaigned for a referendum on the question of EU membership and included politicians and others with contrary views on Brexit.

 

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Michael Grenfell is the Executive Director, Enforcement, at the Competition and Markets Authority where he is responsible for leading the CMA’s enforcement work on Competition Act cases, criminal cartels and consumer enforcement, to provide value to markets and consumers providing strong, visible and dynamic leadership of the CMA’s enforcement work.

This is a recording of a speech given at a joint Institute of Economic Affairs and Information Technology and Innovation Foundation conference called 'The Meaning of Competition: Assertive Antitrust Enforcement and The Digital Economy' on Thursday 4th November 2021.

In May 1946, Hayek delivered the seminal Stafford Little Lecture at Princeton University, laying out his influential ideas of competition as a rivalrous process by which information is discovered. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the lecture, the conference reinvigorated Hayek’s legacy in these times of aggressive antitrust enforcement in the digital economy. Jointly organised by the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy at the ITIF, and the IEA’s Regulatory Affairs Programme, we debated current conceptions and misconceptions of the meaning of competition in the digital era.

The Institute of Economic Affairs is recognised as one of the most influential think tanks in the UK, and its history is closely associated with ideas of Friedrich A. Hayek. We are delighted to host our distinguished speakers and guests today.

Founded in 2006, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is the world’s top think tank for science and technology policy in the latest edition of the University of Pennsylvania’s authoritative Global Go To Think Tank Index. ITIF's mission is to formulate, evaluate, and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress.

 

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In this episode of The Swift Half, Chris sits down with Henry Dimbleby (Co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain and Director of the Sustainable Restaurant Association).

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The Department for International Trade has launched the UK’s first International Trade Week, as it bids to get more British firms exporting to reach a £1 trillion a year export target by 2030. 

Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan kick started the inaugural International Trade Week on Monday, urging UK businesses to sell to the world with DIT’s new ‘Made in the UK, Sold to the World’ campaign. 

To discuss the initiative, IEA Communications & Public Affairs Officer Kieran Neild-Ali sat down with Paul O'Donnell, Public Affairs Director at the Institute of Export & International Trade and Shanker Singham, IEA Trade Fellow and former Director of the International Trade and Competition Unit (ITCU) of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

On this episode, Mark Littlewood, IEA Director General, was joined by:

Patrick Christys - GB News Presenter

Emily Carver - Head of Media, IEA

Danielle Boxall - Media Campaign Manager, TaxPayers' Alliance

Andrew Lilico - Economist

John Macdonald - Director of Strategy, Adam Smith Institute

 

They talking about:

1. MP Sleaze Scandal

2. COVID-19 and Dodgy Statistics

3. Corporate Wokery

 

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To get the full round-up and analysis of  COP26, IEA Communications & Public Affairs Officer Kieran Neild-Ali was joined by Matthew Lesh, Head of Research at the Adam Smith Institute, and Andy Mayer, Chief Operating Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs.  

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In this episode of The Swift Half, Chris sits down with Madeline Grant (Telegraph columnist and Parliamentary sketchwriter). They talk all things from COP26 to journalism (and even a bit of 007!).

 

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This week the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee decided not to raise interest rates, voting seven to two to hold its benchmark rate at 0.1 per cent. This is despite the Bank lifting its forecast for inflation in its latest report.

What does rising inflation mean for households across the UK? What does the banks decision on rates mean for the economy? And what could the future hold for monetary policy?

IEA Communications and Marketing Assistant, Kieran Neild Ali, sat down with Julian Jessop, IEA Economics Fellow. 

 

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Neil Record, Chairman of the IEA, has published a report on the cost of public sector pensions, entitled the ‘Great British Rake-Off’. In his research, Neil argues that the public has been misled over the true cost of public sector pensions. This, Neil claims, is predominantly due to the government operating two different interest rates to calculate the price of pensions in the public sector. On the one hand, IAS19 interest rates, the nationally required formula for companies to calculate their pension expenditure, are used by the government to account for their pensions costs and liabilities, as ordered. However, instead of releasing these results to inform the electorate of the cost of public sector pensions, the government then uses another interest rate, known as ‘SCAPE, to deduce how much the Treasury has charged public sector workers for their pensions. Neil asserts that such a convoluted system confuses the public and allows large sums of money, £57 billion to be precise, to go unreported.

You can read Neil’s paper for free here: https://iea.org.uk/publications/how-g...

 

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