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?".
Speaker: Nick Pickles, Director of Big Brother Watch
Date: Tuesday 7 February 2012
Time: 06:00pm - 06:00pm
Location: St. Stephen's Club, 34 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AB
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The Next Generation group for the under 30s (all those who look older will be asked for full identification, proof of address, proof of date of birth, and whatever else we can come up with) will host Nick Pickles, the new Director of Big Brother Watch. He will address issues relating to online privacy and freedom. Free drinks.
Please sign up online at our ASI's The Next Generation group on Facebook, and turn up on the day.
Speaker: Detlev Schlichter, Brendan Brown, Andrew Lilico
Date: Thursday 26 January 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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Detlev Schlichter is an author and Austrian economist. His first book, Paper Money Collapse - the folly of elastic money and the coming monetary breakdown, was published in 2011. He previously spent nearly 20 years working in international finance, for companies such as Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and Western Asset Management.
Brendan Brown is Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International. His books include The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve, EURO CRASH: The Implications of Monetary Failure in Europe, Bubbles in Credit and Currency, and Monetary Chaos in Europe 1914-31.
Andrew Lilico is a Director and Principal of Europe Economics, a consultancy specialising in economic regulation, competition policy, and the application of economics to public and business policy issues. He was previously Chief Economist of Policy Exchange.
Speaker: Douglas Carswell MP, Brendan O'Neill, Jamie Whyte, Alex Massie.
Date: Thursday 15 December 2011
Time: 06:30pm - 08:30pm
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Location: Bishop Partridge Hall, Church House Conference Centre
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Join us as we look forward to 2012. What will the next 12 months bring? What lies ahead for the eurozone? Who will win the US presidential election? Our expect panel will address these issues and many more.
Douglas Carswell is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Clacton. He is the co-author of The Plan and one of the founders of Direct Democracy. He blogs each day at www.TalkCarswell.com.
Brendan O'Neill is the editor of spiked, an "independent online phenomenon dedicated to raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism".
Jamie Whyte is head of research and publishing at Oliver Wyman, a senior fellow of the Cobden Centre, and writes a weekly column for City AM. He used to lecture in philosophy at the University of Cambridge and recently presented Radio 4's 'Yo, Hayek!', a documentary on the Austrian school of economics.
Alex Massie is a freelance journalist, currently based in the Scottish Borders, and blogs regularly for The Spectator. He previously spent five years in Washington DC as a correspondent for The Scotsman and the Daily Telegraph.
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