Date/Time
Date(s) - 19 July 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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19th July 2023
Vinson Building, University of Buckingham. Buckingham
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Order of the day
10.00 am – Coffee and welcome
10.25am – Welcome by Juan Castañeda, Director of the Vinson
Centre (University of Buckingham) and James Tooley, Vice Chancellor, University of Buckingham.
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Session 1 – The perils of big government and market intervention: the revival of ‘the spirit of 1945’?
Chairperson: Martin Ricketts, University of Buckingham
10.30 am – Mark Pennington, King’s College London – ‘Hayek and the understanding of markets as complex phenomena: policy lessons for regulators’.
11.00 am – Christian Bjørnskov, Aarhus BSS – ‘Economic growth in liberal democracies vs. authoritarian States: does the size of the government matter?’
11.30 am – Discussion
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Session 2 – Classical Political Economy as a discipline
Chairperson: Syed Kamall, St Marys’ University.
12.00 pm – Martin Ricketts, University of Buckingham – ‘The teaching of Economics vs. Classical Political Economy’.
12.30 pm – Daniel Klein, George Mason University – ‘How the study of the Classical Liberal moralists can enhance the understanding of the economy’.
1.00 pm – Discussion
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1:30 pm – Lunch
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Session 3 – Liberalism in retreat
Chairperson: James Forder, Institute of Economic Affairs and Oxford University.
3.00 pm –– Aris Trantidis, Lincoln University – ‘On the erosion of the foundational institutions of market economies’.
3.30 pm – Pedro Schwartz, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela – ‘Liberalism as an incomplete system/paradigm’.
4.00 pm – Discussion
5.00 pm – Drinks reception
End of formal proceedings of the conference