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Title: Direct Democracy and the Coalition
Speaker: Douglas Carswell
Date: 7th September 2010
Time: 12.45pm to 2.15pm
Location: Sir Herbert Baker Room, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ
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Co-author of best selling book, The Plan; 12-months to renew Britain, Douglas Carswell is an advocate of political reform and helped establish the Direct Democracy campaign. In 2009, The Daily Telegraph nominated him a Briton of the Year, and Spectator readers voted him Parliamentarian of the Year.

He had a proper job in business before politics, working in commercial television and then fund management. Douglas co-wrote "Direct Democracy; an agenda for a new model party", which the Spectator magazine described as "One of the founding texts for the new, revitalised Toryism... written by some of the brightest young Conservative thinkers".

He blogs each day at www.TalkCarswell.com and has written for the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Telegraph and Spectator, as well as appearing on the Politics Show, Newsnight, Sky and Radio 4's Week in Westminster and Westminster Hour.

Title: Preventing Financial Meltdowns
Speaker: Tim Harford
Date: 7th September 2010
Time: 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Location: Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ
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Tim Harford is a member of the Financial Times editorial board. His column, “The Undercover Economist”, which reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences, is published in the Financial Times and syndicated around the world. He is also the only economist in the world to run a problem page, “Dear Economist”, in which FT readers’ personal problems are answered tongue-in-cheek with the latest economic theory.

Tim’s first book, “The Undercover Economist” has sold nearly one million copies worldwide in almost 30 languages. His second book, “The Logic of Life“, was published early in 2008 in English, and has also been widely translated.

He presented the BBC television series “Trust Me, I’m an Economist” and now presents the BBC radio series “More or Less”. He is a frequent contributor to other radio and TV programs, including the Colbert Report, Marketplace, Morning Edition, Today, and Newsnight. He has been published by the leading magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Esquire, Forbes, Wired, New York Magazine, the Guardian, the London Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times. He won the 2006 Bastiat Prize for economic journalism.

Before becoming a writer, Tim worked for Shell, the World Bank and as a tutor at Oxford University, from where he earned an M.Phil in economics in 1998. He is a senior visiting fellow at Cass Business School, and he lives in London with his wife and two daughters.

Title: Robber Baron Government: Why the battle over economics has become a culture war in the US
Speaker: Iain Murray
Date: 9th September 2010
Time: 1.15pm to 2.45pm
Location: Charter Room, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ
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Mr. Murray is Vice President for Strategy at CEI. He is the author of the best-selling book on environmental policy, "The Really Inconvenient Truths," and specializes in energy, environment, finance, trade, and science and technology policy.

Mr. Murray is Vice President for Strategy at CEI. He is the author of the best-selling book on environmental policy, "The Really Inconvenient Truths," and specializes in energy, environment, finance, trade, and science and technology policy. He is also an expert on the role of government, the EU and the UK, and the role of liberty in political thought.

He writes regularly for print and online sources, his CEI articles having appeared in The New York Post, Investors Business Daily, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner and many other newspapers. He has appeared on Fox News, CNN Headline News, the BBC and Al-Jazeera among other broadcast appearances. He has also given testimony to the US Senate. A veteran blogger, Mr. Murray contributes to National Review Online's Corner and Planet Gore blogs, and CEI's own OpenMarket. He also has a regular column on the Washington Examiner's Opinion Zone site.

Before coming to CEI, Mr. Murray was Senior Analyst and then Director of Research at the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit that looked at how scientific and statistical information were used or misused by the media and policy-makers.

Originally from the United Kingdom, Mr. Murray immigrated to the US in 1997, after having worked at the British Department of Transport, advising Ministers on railroad privatization, the role of private finance in infrastructure investment and the role of transportation in the economic development of London.

Mr. Murray is also a Visiting Fellow of the British think tank The Adam Smith Institute. Mr. Murray holds a BA and MA from the University of Oxford, an MBA from the University of London and the Diploma of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Hosted by: Adam Smith Institute; Institute of Economic Affairs; Liberal Vision
Title: Coalition, Cuts and Conservatives: an attractive agenda for the Lib Dems?
Chairman: Mark Littlewood (IEA)
Speakers:

• Guido Fawkes
• Jeremy Browne MP
• Lembit Opik
• Prof Richard Grayson
• Julian Harris

Date: Sunday, 19th September 2010
Times: 8pm -  9.15pm
Location: Hall 11C, Arena and Convention Centre Liverpool (ACC), Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 4FP

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Title: Austrian Economics: Past Present and Future
Speakers:

• Dr Eamonn Butler (Director, Adam Smith Institute)
• James Tyler (Tyler Capital Ltd.)
• More to be announced...

Date: 23rd September 2010
Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Location: Queenborough Room, St Stephen’s Club, 34 Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AB
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Title: Gold and Governments
Speaker: Dominic Frisby
Date: 28th September 2010
Time: 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Location: tba
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Dominic is MoneyWeek’s commentator on commodities, and is an active private investor in junior mining and energy companies. He is the presenter and producer of Frisby's Bulls & Bears - an internet radio show where Dominic discusses the commodities and financial markets with leading lights of the sector. Dominic was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University and the Webber-Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art. Aside from his involvement in the commodities sector, Dominic is also one of the UK’s leading voiceover artists, a TV presenter and stand-up comedian.

Hosted by: Adam Smith Institute; Jersey Finance
Chairman: Dr Madsen Pirie – President, Adam Smith Institute
Panelists:

• Douglas Carswell MP
• Geoff Cook, Chief Executive – Jersey Finance
• Allister Heath, Editor – City A.M.
• Richard Teather, Senior Lecturer in Tax Law – The University of Bournemouth

Date: 3rd October 2010
Times: 12.30pm - 2pm
Location: Jurys Inn Hotel, 245 Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HQ

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Hosted by: Adam Smith Institute; Institute of Economic Affairs
Title: Pragmatism, Principle And Power: What will the coalition mean for Conservative politics?
Chairman: Iain Dale, Blogger and Publisher - Total Politics
Speakers:

• Douglas Carswell MP
• Philip Booth (IEA)
• Tom Clougherty (ASI)
• Daniel Hannan MEP

Date: Tuesday, 5th October 2010
Times: 5.45pm - 7pm
Location: Hyatt Regency Birmingham, 2 Bridge Street, Birmingham, B1 2JZ

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Title: Hayek vs. Keynes: Who's Winning the Battle of Ideas?
Speaker: Mark Skousen
Date: 2nd November 2010
Time: 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Location: tba
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Known as the “maverick” of economics for his contrarian and optimistic views, his sometimes-outrageous statements and predictions, Mark Skousen is a college professor, prolific author and world-renowned speaker. He’s made his unique sense of market and investment trends known and respected in the financial world. With a Ph.D. in economics and a focus on the principles of free-market capitalism and “Austrian” economics, Mark Skousen has often gone contrary to the crowd in his investment choices and economic predictions — and has often been proved right.

His more unusual predictions include:

• Forecasting in the early 1980s that “Reaganomics will work!”
• Sending a special alert to subscribers of Forecasts & Strategies to “Sell all stocks and mutual funds” on Sept. 8, 1987, just six weeks before the 1987 Stock Market Crash
• Calling for the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet Communism
• Predicting of the biggest bull market on Wall Street in the 20th century — the 1990s

Mark Skousen has built a reputation for not only accurately identifying the right economic and political trends, but also the right investments for the times.

An almost idealistic proponent of liberty and political freedom, Mark Skousen is actively involved in some of the most prestigious free-market and liberty think tanks in the world. He frequently speaks and writes articles for organizations such as the Cato Institute, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Libertarian Party, the Council for National Policy and the Mt. Pelerin Society. You can read many of those articles or listen to some of his speeches. He is also the producer of FreedomFest, an annual conference held in Las Vegas (the country’s most libertarian city!) and billed as the world’s largest gathering of free minds on liberty. You can visit www.freedomfest.com for more information.

Date: 10th November 2010
Title: tba

Nigel Stapleton has been Postcomm’s chairman since 16 January 2004, when he was appointed for an initial three-year term by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. On 2 November 2006 he was reappointed for a further four years, until 14 January 2011. He works two and a half days a week for Postcomm.

Mr Stapleton is a non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange plc and a non-executive director of Reliance Security Group plc.

Mr Stapleton is an independent director of two subsidiaries of SamrukKazyna National Prosperity Fund, which manages the State owned assets of Kazakhstan. The two subsidiaries are the electricity generation company - Samruk Energy - and the Kazak postal services provider - KazPost.

He is also a Trustee of the Mineworker's Pension Fund and in February 2009 was appointed Scheme Chairman of the Fund.

Mr Stapleton’s earlier business career included 18 years with Unilever and 13 years at publishing and information company Reed Elsevier.

Mr Stapleton is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has a degree in economics from Cambridge University.

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