Date: Tuesday 21 July 2009
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
Speaker: Dr Madsen Pirie
Location: 23 Great Smith Street
Title: Zero Base Policy
Britain is broken. Its finances are in ruins, its taxation is chaotic and punitive, its public services fail to reach adequate standards, and its public administration shows no coherence and commands no respect. In Zero Base Policy Madsen Pirie urges a new approach. Instead of tinkering at the edges by trying to improve existing policies, he urges a re-think to first principles, asking in each case what are the purposes and the objectives sought. The policies derived from such an approach make a clean break with the past, setting out how Britain can be put right.
Ranging across all areas of public policy, Madsen Pirie presents the radical agenda which can transform the nation from ‘broken Britain’ into a dynamic society and a successful economy, one which achieves the objectives its citizens yearn for. It should be bedtime reading for those who aspire to govern Britain in the future.
Date: Tuesday 7 July 2009
Time: 06:15pm - 08:30pm
Location: Embark at Westminster Pier from 6pm. The boat (Golden Jubilee) departs at 6.15pm and will return to Westminster Pier two hours later.
Date: Wednesday 24 June 2009
Time: 12:45pm - 02:15pm
Title: The Importance of Journalism in Modern Society
The Editors is a series of Power Lunches with the editors of the countries top newspapers. Inspired by a lunch with Lionel Barber towards the end of last year, we already have most of the top newspaper editors booked to discuss the newspaper industry and current events.
Date: Tuesday 16 June 2009
Time: 06:45pm - 06:45pm
Date: 16th June 2009
Title: Newspapers: is the game up?
The Editors is a series of Power Lunches with the editors of the countries top newspapers. Inspired by a lunch with Lionel Barber towards the end of last year, we already have most of the top newspaper editors booked to discuss the newspaper industry and current events.
Date: Thursday 4 June 2009
Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm
Speaker: Deepak Lal
Location: The Queenborough Room, St. Stephen’s Club, 34 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1H 9AB
Title: “The Great Crash of 2008: Are governments or markets to blame?"
Deepak Lal is the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus of political economy at University College London, President of the Mont Pelerin Society and a Senior Fellow of Adam Smith Institute.
He was a member of the Indian Foreign Service (1963-66) and has served as a consultant to the Indian Planning Commission, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, various UN agencies, South Korea, and Sri Lanka. From 1984 to 1987 he was research administrator at the World Bank.
Lal is the author of a number of books, including The Poverty of Development Economics; The Hindu Equilibrium; Against Dirigisme; The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth; Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance; and Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the 21st Century.
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