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Dr Razeen Sally: Liberty Outside the West -The Shift of the World Economy to Emerging Markets and What it Means for Freedom

Speaker: Dr Razeen Sally

Date: Monday 18 July 2011

Time: 12:30pm - 02:00pm

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Location: Ideas Space, Clutha House, 10 Storey's Gate, Westminster, SW1P 3AY

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Dr Razeen Sally is a senior lecturer in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and co-director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (EPICE), a international economic policy think tank based in Brussels.

Dr Sally's research and teaching focuses on global trade policy and Asia in the world economy. He has written extensively on the WTO, FTAs, and on different aspects of trade policy in Asia. He has also written on the history of economic ideas, especially the theory of commercial policy. He has consulted for governments, international organisations and businesses in Europe and Asia, comments regularly on international economic issues in the media.

Dr Sally will deliver a lunchtime lecture on the topic of the shift of the world economy to emerging markets and what if means for freedom. Sandwiches and drinks will be provided. 

The Adam Smith Institute Summer Boat Party 2011

Date: Tuesday 5 July 2011

Time: 06:15pm - 06:15pm

Location: Embark at Westminster Pier from 6.15pm. The boat (Golden Jubilee) departs promptly at 6.30pm and will return to Westminster Pier two hours later.

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This event is now full and there are no more tickets available.

Education, Freedom and the State

Speaker: Claire Fox (Institute of Ideas), David Davis MP, Toby Young (associate editor of the Spectator), Terence Kealey (vice-chancellor, University of Buckingham) and Tom Clougherty (Adam Smith Institute)

Date: Tuesday 21 June 2011

Time: 06:15pm - 08:00pm

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Location: IEA, 2 Lord North Street

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The Next Generation with Peter Stringfellow

Date: Tuesday 7 June 2011

Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm

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Location: St Stephen's Club, St Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AB

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'Personal Freedom'

June's TNG will be on Tuesday 7th June with Peter Stringfellow, one of the world's most famous nightclub owners.

His nightclub business started out in the 1960s in Sheffield and today Peter owns the Stringfellow's table dancing clubs in London - Stringfellow's Covent Garden and Stringfellow's Angels - and a club in Paris.

Known by many as the King of Clubs, Peter is a self made businessman and is also a Conservative.

He will be talking for 10 minutes on the topic of personal freedom. You will also be able to meet and ask him questions before and after his talk.

Evening Lecture with Dr Tara Smith

Speaker: Dr Tara Smith

Date: Thursday 19 May 2011

Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm

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Location: Convocation Hall, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, SW1P 3NZ

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"The Pursuit of Happiness – and Tools Essential to Attaining It"

Dr Tara Smith is an objectivist and professor of philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the current holder of the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism and will be talking on the pursuit of happiness and the tools essential to attaining it.She specializes in moral and political theory and has published works including Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality (2000), Moral Rights and Political Freedom (1995), and Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist (2006). Tara is a member of the Ayn Rand Society and is affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute

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