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Date: Monday 15 October 2012
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
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Location: Church House Conference Centre, Church House, Dean's Yard, London, SW1P 3NZ (Entrance on Great Smith Street)
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On the centenary year of Milton Friedman's birth, we look at three of Milton Friedman's ideas that have not yet been addressed.
Peter Lilley MP, former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, will speak on the case for the legalisation of cannabis.
Dr Adam Martin, lecturer in Political Economy at King's College London, will speak on the case for free trade.
Dr Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute, will speak on Milton Friedman's proposal for a Negative Income Tax.
Doors will open at 6:00pm for a drinks reception, with the panel starting their speeches at 6:30pm sharp.
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Date: Monday 8 October 2012
Time: 03:30pm - 05:00pm
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Location: Jurys Inn Hotel, 45 Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HQ
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This year the Adam Smith Institute are holding an event with Jersey Finance at the Conservative Conference. The fringe event is being held outside of the secure zone, meaning that it is open to both conference attendees and non-conference pass holders.
We will be looking at 'An Agenda for Growth', with Dan Hannan, Kwasi Kwarteng, Andrew Lilico and Geoff Cook all giving their different free market views on how the government should change policy to allow economic growth.
Afternoon tea and refreshments will be provided.
Speaker: Dr Madsen Pirie, Steve Baker MP, Dr Tim Evans, Chris Snowdon, Tam Fry
Date: Friday 5 October 2012
Time: 11:00am - 04:00pm
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Location: Upper 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 October the conference will focus on free market economics, with a focus on the following:
Does Economics matter?
Do markets make us moral?
What happens in a recession?
Causes of the next financial crisis
The Fat Tax Debate: Should fatty foods and soda drinks be taxed to tackle obesity?
Students are welcome to attend independently, or with teachers. Refreshments will be provided.
Speaker: Douglas Carswell MP
Date: Tuesday 2 October 2012
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
Location: 23 Great Smith Street, SW1P 3BL
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Douglas Carswell MP speaks to the ASI's Next Generation on his new book "The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy".
In "The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy" Carswell argues that the west is in crisis. Governments have grown too big, living beyond their means - and ours. Should we despair? Actually, no. At the precise moment Big Government becomes unaffordable, the internet revolution makes it possible to do without it. The old political and economic order is about to give way to something vastly better. Douglas Carswell is a prolific writer, blogger and commentator. He was elected to Parliament in 2005 and Parliamentarian of the Year by readers of the Spectator.
This event is for under-30s.
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Speaker: Dr Eamonn Butler
Date: Wednesday 26 September 2012
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
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Location: St Stephen's Club, 34 Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AB
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Dr Eamonn Butler talks to the Adam Smith Institute about the relevance of the ideas of Friedrich Hayek to understanding contemporary economic issues. Dr Butler is the author of "Friedrich Hayek: The ideas and influence of the libertarian economist". Friedrich Hayek is a straightforward outline of the life and work of the great Nobel economist, social theorist and scourge of socialism, whose ideas influence Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, and helped change the course of history.
Eamonn has degrees in economics, philosophy and psychology, gaining a PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1978. He is the author of books on the pioneering economists Milton Friedman, F A Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Adam Smith, and co-author of "Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls", and author of "The Best Book on the Market", "The Rotten State of Britain" and "The Alternative Manifesto".
Doors will open at 6:00pm for a drinks reception, with Dr Butler's speech starting at 6:30pm sharp. Copies of Friedrich Hayek will be available for purchase.
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