Date: Tuesday 19 March 2013
Time: 11:00am - 03:00pm
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Location: Lower Hall, Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham Street, Westminster, SW1P 3DW
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The Independent Seminar on the Open Society (ISOS) is a free one-day seminar for sixth-formers, held in London twice a year. This March the conference will focus on free market economics. Topics covered will include:
Limits of knowledge - Dr Eamonn Butler, Director, Adam Smith Institute
Why we need more people - Brendan O'Neill, Spiked Online
The fallacy of evidence-based policy - Jamie Whyte, philosopher and writer
The private supply of public goods - Dr Tim Evans, Cobden Centre
Debate: Should we be able to sell our organs? - Dr Steve Davies, Institute of Economic Affairs vs John Feehally, International Society of Nephrology
Students are welcome to attend independently, or with teachers. Refreshments will be provided.
Speaker: JP Floru & Dr Madsen Pirie
Date: Monday 18 March 2013
Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm
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Location: St Stephen's Club, 34 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AB
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ASI Research Fellow JP Floru will be launching his new book 'Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity'. In Heavens on Earth JP Floru shows how the West can reverse its current economic decline. It takes a sweeping view of countries which have dramatically reformed their economies to create lasting high growth, introducing us to the remarkable individuals who made it happen. Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Chile, the United States and Germany after the war, China, and the Industrial Revolution in England all turned the tide from misery to plenty. Heavens on Earth is a powerful plea for economic growth and the creation of mass prosperity to benefit all.
JP Floru is a Senior Research Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute and a prolific writer, speaker and blogger. He is active in politics and stood for the European Parliament for London in 2009 on a pro free market and Thatcherite platform. Heavens on Earth is his second book.
Dr Madsen Pirie, ASI President, will also be launching his novel 'Silver Dawn'. It is the sequel to his previous book 'Children of the Night'.
The novel follows the adventures of Mark, a lowly cathedral boy who joins Children of the Night to attempt to bring down the rule of the corrupt Church and the oppressive aristocracy.
JP Floru and Dr Madsen Pirie will give a brief talk on their books and copies will be available for sale.
There will be a ten minute speech followed by drinks reception.
Speakers:
Date: Thursday 14 March 2013
Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm
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Location: St Stephen's Club, 34 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AB
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The Adam Smith Institute will be holding a panel discussion looking at the next steps towards ending the War on Drugs, focusing on decriminalisation and legalisation.
On the panel will be:
Baroness Meacher chaired the 2012 All Party Parliamentary Group on Drugs Policy. The group recommended the decriminalisation of drugs.
Simon Jenkins is a newspaper columnist, editor and author and is the current chairman of the National Trust. He has been an outspoken critic on the UK's drug policy and the failed war on drugs.
Niamh Eastwood is the Executive Director of Release. Release campaigns for changes to UK drugs policy to bring about a fairer and more compassionate legal framework to manage drug use in our society.
Doors will open at 6.30pm for a drinks reception with the discussion starting at 7pm sharp.
Unfortunately, Baroness Meacher has had to withdraw from this event due to illness. Author and journalist Christopher Snowdon will speak in her place.
Speaker: David Davis MP
Date: Tuesday 5 March 2013
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
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Location: Adam Smith Institute, 23 Great Smith Street, SW1P 3BL
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David Davis MP will be in town for our March TNG. He will be delivering a short speech on the steps needed to make Britain a freer country, and will stay around afterwards for a discussion with guests. The former Shadow Home Secretary and Conservative leadership runner-up is always an excellent speaker and a staunch defender of liberty. His latest achievement has been to bolster free speech following a successful campaign to reform section 5 of the Public Order Act.
This event is for under-30s.
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Speaker: Brendan Brown
Date: Tuesday 26 February 2013
Time: 06:30pm - 08:00pm
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Location: 23 Great Smith Street, SW1P 3BL
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Brendan Brown has authored many books on international financial topics, including monetary problems in the US, Europe and Japan, and asset market pricing (including exchange rates) in a global context. He was awarded a PhD by the London School of Economics and an MBA by the University of Chicago. Dr. Brown is Head of Economic Research and Executive Director at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, one of the largest Japanese financial institutions. Dr. Brown contributes regularly to Japanese and European financial media.
Brendan Brown will speak on his new book 'The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve'. This book demonstrates that severe monetary instability created by the Federal Reserve through the last 100 years has been the source of global economic crisis and geo-political breakdown. A manifesto for a second monetarist revolution drawing on a monetary tradition embracing J.S. Mill and the Austrian School, forms the core of this book. Brown argues for the end of the Fed as a policy-making institution. The litany of monetary disasters – the World Depression of the 30s, the Great Inflation of the 1970s, and then the sequence of bubbles-and-busts including Latin America, Japan, South East Asia, and finally the entire world - proves that this particular institution is deeply rotten.
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