While Covid-19 may have brought the nation to a halt, the fight for a freer, more prosperous world was in full swing at the ASI.
During lockdown the Institute went digital — with weekly webinars replacing our in-person events. Please find all our recorded webinars below.
On the birthday of Atlas Shrugged author Ayn Rand, ASI Director Eamonn Butler hosted a webinar looking at what she might have made of our current concerns, s...
In 2011, Tyler Cowen published a pamphlet on 'The Great Stagnation' in America. He argued that the American economy has reached a historical technological pl...
Over the last few weeks, the prospect of viable, widely available vaccines has moved from tentative to the cusp of certainty. Doom-loop conversations about l...
Much of the last few weeks have been leading up to one decisive day, the day when all would be clear: US Election Day. But in the days following, as votes sl...
Reebok is one of the most recognisable global brands, adorning world class athletes, celebrities, and millions of consumers across the world. But it wasn't a...
With trade negotiations now well underway between the United States and the United Kingdom, we take a look at the state of play. Politicians, pundits, politi...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the UK is in something of a housing crisis. Home ownership has been declining for half a century. 90% of 25-34 ye...
Schools across the UK have been shut for months in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fallout has been immense, with furious protests at the Government's...
Matt Kilcoyne is joined by Dan Ikenson from Cato; Bruno Macaes of Hudson Institute and author of Dawn of Eurasia, Belt and Road, and History has Begun; and C...
Academics and editors sacked, authors and celebrities in social media storms, and even normal people falling foul of workplace policies. Cancel culture isn't...
Environmentalism has become almost apocalyptic. We are told how humanity is threatening our planet, destroying natural habitats and we are on the verge of th...
The British bureaucracy is supposed to operate with the abilities of a brand new Rolls Royce. The Covid-19 crisis, however, has shown it is like a rusty old ...
During this pandemic, the ASI has investigated a wide array of topics, from the fiscal and regulatory response to civil society and innovation. But we have y...
Universal Basic Income - a regular payment for all citizens - is a radical idea that has been around for centuries that is supported, and opposed, across the...
Questions abound about the cost of this crisis. We need to start thinking now about how the Western World's capitalist economies will respond, and whether ta...
The UK's lockdown was justified as necessary to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed. But it is causing extreme psychological, social, and economic distres...
As President Joe Biden takes his spot in history, what can we expect of his first 100 days in office? Typically a bellwether for the years to come, the first...
The Government has unveiled plans for a total ban on all online advertising of so-called 'junk food'. It would include family favourites from sausage rolls a...
Journalists, academics, and even some business leaders are demanding that companies stop focusing so much on delivering profit to shareholders and more on cr...
For the latest in our series of webinars, with restrictions returning across the Western World, our very own Matt Kilcoyne is joined by Professor Alex Tabarr...
Four young people in or around Newcastle died last weekend, with MDMA and ketamine suspected to have been involved. The latest ONS data available shows that ...
Cities are the engine room of modern economies. They are where we socialise, find entertainment, and find the most productive workers. Over recent decades, f...
We all know that the NHS has finite resources, time, and staff, and therefore must ration services - never more so than during the pandemic. Stories of delay...
Two decades since the advent of devolution, the United Kingdom appears to be on the brink with nationalists riding high in the polls in Scotland, an embolden...
The ASI's Daniel Pryor is joined by Professor Joanna Neill (Professor of Psychopharmacology, University of Manchester), Dr. James Rucker (Honorary Consultant...
Adam Smith Institute President Dr Madsen Pirie interviews Dr Rainer Zitelmann In this webinar, we debunk the myths and delve into what makes the super rich t...
Last week was the Prime Minister's 'build build build' speech. This week a July 'fiscal event' is expected from the Chancellor. These are raising questions a...
Protests reignited in Hong Kong as Beijing introduced the National Security law in May of this year. By passing it through the National People's Congress, ef...
In a time of slowed innovation and technological pessimism in our popular culture, and when a viral threat means we need more innovations in quicker time tha...
From the steam engine to the smartphone, innovation is responsible for catapulting humankind into our modern prosperity. But the term has too often become a ...
China was ground zero for Coronavirus. The authorities lied about the outbreak, brutally censored whistleblowers and allowed it to spread across the world. T...
To stem a public health emergency we have shut down over one-third of the economy, creating an economic emergency. To lessen the blow, governments have attem...
The longer we spend in lockdown to curtail COVID-19, the greater the difficulty to reboot the economy becomes. With the OBR suggesting government borrowing c...
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