Speaker: Dr Tim Evans, Dr Madsen Pirie, Chris Snowdon, Nic Marks, Tony Gilland & Jamie Whyte
Date: Wednesday 25 April 2012
Time: 10:00am - 03:00pm
RSVP: sally@adamsmith.org
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 in the Winter and Spring each year. This April, the conference will cover a range of topics including:
Students are welcome to attend independently, or with teachers.
Speaker: Iain Martin
Date: Tuesday 3 April 2012
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
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Location: Adam Smith Institute, 23 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BL
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Journalist and Telegraph columnist Iain Martin speaks to the ASI's Next Generation on "Why the Tory leadership is making such a mess of things".
This event will be held at the ASI offices on Great Smith St.
Speaker: Daniel B. Klein
Date: Tuesday 20 March 2012
Time: 12:30pm - 02:00pm
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Location: Adam Smith Institute, 23 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BL
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Daniel B. Klein is a professor of economics at George Mason University, USA and editor of Econ Journal Watch. His teaching focuses on economic principles, public policy issues, and the liberal tradition of Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek.
Daniel will be talking on the topic of his paper: 'Mere libertarianism', where he offers a "clear, versatile, and durable definition" of libertarianism as a movement and political persuasion. His new book is Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation, reviewed by the ASI here.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Speaker: Tom Palmer
Date: Tuesday 6 March 2012
Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm
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Location: Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House Conference Centre, SW1P 3NZ
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Tom Palmer is a libertarian and the Vice President for International Programmes at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and Director of Cato University. He is frequently travelling, delivering lectures on the history of liberty, free trade and peace, individualism, public choice economics, and the moral and legal foundations of individual rights.
Tom will be talking on his most recent book: 'The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won't Tell You'.
Speaker: Steven Landsburg
Date: Monday 20 February 2012
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 bestselling author of More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics and The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life should be a crowd-pleaser. RSVP now, to guarantee a seat.
A talk about how simple principles of economics can have surprising conclusions, with emphasis on the question: "How do you know when the world has too much or too little of something?"
Examples will include "How do we use basic ideas of economics to tell us whether the world has too much or too little pollution? Too much or too little population growth? Too much or too little casual sex?".
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