On the Rocks:
London’s Nightlife in Crisis
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Short Term Thinking
Analysing the effects of VAT on school fees
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Boosting Brownfield:
Full Expensing for Brownfield Development
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My Generation
Introducing the Next Generation Centre
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Free Wills
The Case for the Abolition of Inheritance Tax
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Cooped Up
Quantifying the Cost of Housing Restrictions
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World Traders:
The Case For The UK’s Participation in the WTO MPIA
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Saving the Golden Goose
How the UK's Crypto Rules Narrowly Avoid America's Securitarian Trap
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Fission Impossible?
Building Better Nuclear for the Future
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Smoke Free Rooms
Reviewing the Recommendations of the FCTC’s COP10
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Homes for All
A Debt-Free Solution to the Housing Crisis
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Tipping Point
On the Edge of Superintelligence
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How Safer Smoking Alternatives Can Level Up Health and Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis
2 Million Years of Life
How Global Britain can lead on tobacco harm reduction and save millions of lives
The Golden Opportunity
How the growing red tape burden undermines the rule of law and economic prosperity
Ignorantia Legis
How to restore free association and expression, combat extremism and make student unions effective
State of the Unions
The urgent need to decentralise Covid19 diagnostic testing in the United Kingdom
Testing Times
How legalising and regulating cannabis will reduce crime, protect children and improve safety
The Green Light
Using free markets to create a richer, freer, happier world.
The Adam Smith Institute is one of the world's leading think tanks. Independent, non-profit, and non-partisan, we work to promote neoliberal and free market ideas through research, publishing, media commentary, and educational programmes. The Institute is today at the forefront of making the case for free markets and a free society in the United Kingdom.
Freedom from poverty through markets and economic growth
Central to our mission is our belief that free markets work best for the poor. No system has raised people out of poverty and given them the freedom to live their lives as they wish like free markets have, and in politics today it is usually the poorest people who bear the brunt of the government's worst policies in areas like education, health and welfare. Our mission is to use free markets to end poverty in Britain and around the world. We believe in:
Low, simple, flat taxes that encourage investment and innovation, and hence economic growth.
A voucher-based education system that gives parents and schools complete freedom over how and where children are educated.
A privately-provided, publicly-funded healthcare system where patient outcomes are the focus.
Freedom of trade with the world, and a liberal immigration system that is designed to work for migrants and natives alike.
A liberalised planning system that lets many more houses be built, so everyone can afford to own their own home.
A simple welfare system based around a Negative Income Tax or Basic Income that tops up the wages of the poor and guarantees that work always pays.
Free market money and an end to bailouts of private banks, in all their forms.
Young people are inherently capitalist- they are entrepreneurial, commercially-minded and ambitious. Despite this, ‘capitalism’ is a dirty word for too many young people.
In order to change this, we want to demonstrate that only free markets and a free society can deliver the solutions to the challenges that young people face, through educational outreach and our new Fellowship Programme.
We want to build lasting relationships with the policy-makers of the future, and so will be offering twelve young writers the chance to join our Next Generation Fellowship Programme, giving them the opportunity to produce research on the issues that matter most to them.