Date/Time
Date(s) - 4 November 2024
9:30 am - 6:30 pm
Categories
‘On morality, human behaviour and economics’
4th November 2024
Vinson Building, University of Buckingham. Buckingham
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Order of the day
9:45 am – Coffee and welcome.
10.00 am – Welcome by Professor James Tooley (Vice-Chancellor, University of Buckingham), Dr Juan Castañeda, Director of the Vinson Centre (University of Buckingham) and Tom Clougherty (Executive Director, Institute of Economic Affairs).
10.15 am – Opening lecture by Dr Richard Turnbull (Centre for Ethics, Markets, and Enterprise) – ‘The moral case for the market’
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Session 1 – On the moral foundations of the market economy
Chairperson: Lord Matthew Elliott (Jobs Foundation)
11.00 am – Professor Mikko Arevuo (Cranfield University) on ‘Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments: the dichotomy of self-interest and equality’
11.30 am. – Professor Pedro Schwartz (Camilo José Cela University) on ‘Smith vs. Mandeville: on morality and ethics in a market economy’
12.00 am. – Dr Elena Leontjeva (Lithuanian Free Market Institute) on ‘’The moral case for capitalism’
12.30 am – Discussion
1.00 pm – Break for lunch
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Session 2 – Faith in Markets?
Chairperson: Tom Clougherty (IEA)
2.00 pm – Martin Vander Weyer (The Spectator) – ‘Why We’ve Lost Faith in Capitalism’
2.30 pm – Dr. Benedikt Koehler (IEA) on ‘The question of profit and wealth in Islam, Judaism and Christian religion’
3.00 pm – Professor Philip Booth (St Mary’s University) on ‘The economics of Pope Francis – markets, society and the state’
3.30 – Discussion
4.00 – 4.15 pm: Short coffee break
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Session 3 – On social justice
Chairperson: Professor Paul Dragos Aligica (University of Bucharest and George Mason University)
4.15 pm – TBC on ‘Social justice from a classical liberal perspective’
4.45 pm – Dr. Billy Christmas (King’s College London) on ‘Property Rights and Social Justice in the Early Church Fathers’
5.15 pm – Dr Chris O’Leary on ‘Welfare beyond the state’
5.45 pm – Discussion
6.15 pm – Drinks reception. End of formal proceedings of the conference.
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