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Institute of Economic Affairs

| logo = Institute of Economic Affairs London logo.png | type = Free market think tank | headquarters = London, United Kingdom | leader_title = Executive Director | leader_name = Tom Clougherty | website = [https://iea.org.uk/ iea.org.uk] | funding = Partially disclosed, including Jersey Finance and the John Templeton Foundation, funding from fossil fuel industry, gambling industry, and tobacco industry }} The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a right-wing, free market think tank}} registered as a UK charity. Associated with the New Right, the IEA describes itself as an "educational research institute" and 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".

The IEA subscribes to a neoliberal world view and advocates positions based on this ideology. It published climate change denial material between 1994 and 2007. It has advocated for privatisation of, and abolition of complete government control of, the National Health Service (NHS), in favour of a healthcare system with market mechanisms. It has received more than £70,000 from the tobacco industry (although it does not reveal its funders), and an IEA director was recorded offering a prospective supporter introductions to policy makers, referred to as "cash for access". The IEA is headquartered in Westminster, London.

Founded by businessman and battery farming pioneer Antony Fisher in 1955, the IEA was one of the first modern think tanks, and promoted Thatcherite right-wing ideology, and free market and monetarist economic policies. The IEA has been criticised for operating in a manner closer to that of a lobbying operation than as a genuine think tank. The IEA publishes a journal (''Economic Affairs''), a student magazine (''EA''), books and discussion papers, and holds regular lectures. Provided by Wikipedia