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Our mission is 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.

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Tom Clougherty is Executive Director & Ralph Harris Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs
British writer/researcher. Author of Killjoys, Polemics, The Spirit Level Delusion, The Art of Suppression and Velvet Glove, Iron Fist. Head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Editorial Director and Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Views my own.
Director of Public Policy and Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs