Institute of Economic Affairs

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The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a British right-wing, free-market think tank, which is registered as a charity. Associated with the New Right, the IEA says that it seeks to "further the dissemination of free-market thinking" by "analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems".

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