Past events in 2024
2024 Vinson Centre Conference in the Classical Liberal Tradition
Further the constitution of liberty through free trade and enterprise (Lord Vinson)
‘2024 Vinson Centre Conference in the Classical Liberal Tradition’
In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (King’s College London)
Hayek’s relevance to understand the world today.
On the 50th anniversary of his Nobel Prize
17th July 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 Professor Mark Pennington, Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (King’s College London).
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10.15 am Opening lecture on Hayek’s life and main contributions to economics and political philosophy. By Jeremy Shearmur (Australian National University).
10.45 am – Discussion.
Session 1 – Paternalism and the regulatory state
Chairperson: Len Shackleton (University of Buckingham).
11.15 am – Mark Pennington (King’s College London) – Hayek and Foucault on Government at a Distance.
11.45 am – Cento Veljanovski (Institute of Economic Affairs) – Hayek on regulation. On the size of the regulatory state.
12.15 am – Discussion.
12.45 pm – Break for lunch
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Session 2 – Knowledge, information and patents
Chairperson: Victoria Hewson (Department of Business and Trade)
1.30 pm – Pavel Kuchař (King’s College London): On the meaning of competition in Hayek as related to the emergence of market supporting institutional infrastructures and the discovery of relevant elements of knowledge commons.
2.00 pm – Martin Ricketts (University of Buckingham) and Terence Kealey (Cato Institute): On tacit knowledge and innovation policy.
2.30 pm – Discussion.
3.00 – 3.15 pm. Short break
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Session 3 – Hayek beyond academia
Chairperson: Paola Romero (London School of Economics and Political Science)
3.15 pm – Gabriel Calzada (Hesperides University, President Mont Pelerin Society): On Hayek’s original MPS project and the different schools within the MPS.
3.45 pm – Pedro Schwartz (Former President of the Mont Pelerin Society and Universidad Camilo Jose Cela) and Kristian Niemietz (Editorial Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs): On the meaning of ‘The Road to Serfdom’ today.
4.15 pm – Discussion
4.45 pm – Coffee break
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Session 4 – Monetary disorder
Chairperson: Geoffrey Wood (University of Buckingham)
5.00 pm – Kevin Dowd (Durham University): On Hayek’s ‘Denationalisation of money’ and currency competition.
5.30 pm – Discussion
6.00 pm – Drinks reception. End of formal proceedings of the conference by the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities (Professor Julian Richards) and Crispin Hayek.
Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
- Speaker: Professor Ilya Somin
- Speaker’s Affiliation: George Mason University
- Date: Wednesday 10th July, 2024
- Time: 13:00
- Venue: Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building (1st floor), University of Buckingham.
How are we to explain economists’ “collective failure” to forecast inflation correctly in the 2020s?: the quantity theory of money and the transmission mechanism from money to the economy
Speaker: Professor Tim Congdon
Speaker’s Affiliation: CBE, Founder and Chair of the Institute of international Monetary Research
Date: Wednesday 12th June, 2024
Time: 17:00
Venue: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1P 3LB
Part of the Vinson Centre Seminar Series in the Classical Political Economy Tradition Spring term 2024
Apocalypse Next: The Economics of Global Catastrophic Risks
Speaker: Dr Stephen Davies
Speaker’s Affiliation: Institute of Economic Affairs
Date: Wednesday 22nd May, 2024
Time: 16:00
Venue: Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building (1st floor), University of Buckingham.
Part of the Vinson Centre Seminar Series in the Classical Political Economy Tradition Spring term 2024
Monetary Mismanagement – the untold story of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
Speaker: Dr George Maher
Venue: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3LB
Date: 13 March 2024
Time: 17:00 – 19:00
The Welfare State as a Tradition
Dr Stefan Kirkegaard Slok-Madsen (Copenhagen Business School, CEPOS)
Venue: Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building (1st floor), University of Buckingham.
Date and Time: 16:00 on Thursday 15 February, 2024.
Past events in 2023
Should the UK adopt unilateral free trade? A debate between Daniel Hannan and Terence Kealey
Daniel Hannan (Lord Hannan of Kingsclere, Institute for Free Trade) and Professor Terence Kealy (Cato Institute): ‘Should the UK adopt unilateral free trade? A debate between Daniel Hannan and Terence Kealey’
Date and time: 17:00hrs on Monday 11th of December, 2023.
Please note the date change
Location: Institute of Economic Affairs offices in Westminster, London.
2 Lord North Street, London, SW1P 3LB
Sismondi on Liberty and Economic Progress
Speaker: Dr Rogerio Arthmar (Vinson Centre Visiting Scholar)
Date: 22 November, 2023
Time: 16:30
Location: At the Vinson Building, Enterprise Hub, 1st floor, University of Buckingham
Professor Terence Kealey (Cato Institute)
on ‘Knowledge is irreducibly tacit, so the government funding of science cannot stimulate economic growth’
Summer 2023 Seminar Series in the Classical Political Economy tradition
Wednesday 26th July, 16:00 – 18:00 hrs.
At the Vinson Building, Enterprise Hub, 1st floor, University of Buckingham.
2023 Vinson Centre Conference in the Classical Political Economy Tradition
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
Robert Pringle (Central Banking Publications) and Brendan Brown (Hudson Institute) on ‘A Guide to Good Money‘
Wednesday 24th May, 17:00 hrs.
At the Institute of Economic Affairs’ offices in Westminster, London.
Professor Michael McLure (University of Western Australia) on ‘Sentiment, Action and Utility’
Wednesday 10th May, 16:00hrs.
At the Vinson Building, Enterprise Hub, 1st floor, University of Buckingham.
Dr Lawrence Haar (Brighton University): ‘The fiscal incidence of renewable energy support‘
Institute of Economic Affairs offices in Westminster, London, 22nd March 2023 at 17:00 hrs.
Dr Nick Cowen (Lincoln University): ‘Neoliberal social justice’
Rooms 5 and 6, Vinson Centre. University of Buckingham, 22th Feb. 2023, 16:00hrs.
To register, please click here
Please note that the date and venue of this event have now been changed.
Past events in 2022
Monetarisms in an historical perspective: why is it not fashionable anymore?
16:00
Pedro Schwartz, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid
IIMR Annual Monetary Conference: ‘Did central banks react correctly to the Covid-19 pandemic?’
9.30am – 16:30pm
Register to attend at the University of Buckingham:
Register (in person attendance)
To join us online (via Zoom) please register using this link:
Does the Fed need a tighter monetary policy rile and Congress scrutiny to restore price stability?
18:00
Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School
Sixth-form economics conference with Sir Joseph Williamson Mathematical School, Rochester
The event will consist of interactive talks on economic policy issues related to the A-level syllabus and a careers session. This event is virtual. If you wish to register, click the blue button which follows.
Sixth-form economics conference with Clifton College, Bristol
The event will consist of interactive talks on economic policy issues related to the A-level syllabus and a careers session. This event is in person. If you wish to register, please email Brittany Davis.
IIMR Webinar Series 2022: David Llewellyn, Loughborough University
Has the regulation pendulum swung too far in the banking industry?
Sixth-form economics conference with Woodford School, London
The event will consist of interactive talks on economic policy issues related to the A-level syllabus and a careers session. This event is in person. If you wish to register, please email Brittany Davis.
Sixth-form economics conference with Gordon’s School, near Woking
The event will consist of interactive talks on economic policy issues related to the A-level syllabus and a careers session – this event is virtual. If you wish to register, click the blue Register link.
IIMR Webinar Series 2022: Tim Congdon, Institute of International Monetary Research
Banking in a free society
IIMR Webinar Series 2022: Mark Skousen, Chapman University
The implications of using Gross Output for the making of monetary decisions
Sixth-form economics conference with Stowe School, Buckinghamshire.
The event will consist of interactive talks on economic policy issues related to the A-level syllabus and a careers session – this event is virtual. If you wish to register, click the blue Register link which follows.
Vinson Centre and Institute of Economic Affairs Budget Challenge
Win £1,000 for you and your school!
Your chance to enter a team for a national competition that will help them to learn more about economics, develop their writing, research, and analytical skills, and give them a better understanding of the policy issues and challenges facing national decision makers.
Institute of International Monetary Research, Vinson Centre and Institute of Economic Affairs Monetary Policy Essay competition 2021-22
Essay title: Entrants should write an essay on “Does inflation matter? And will the current inflation upturn be transitory or not?”
Past events in 2021
IIMR Money Webinar Series: Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins University
Alternative monetary regimes to fight inflation in emerging economies: dollarization, currency boards and monetary competition
IIMR Money Webinar Series: James Ferguson, MacroStrategy
Will inflation be temporary or an embedded phenomenon?
Vinson Centre and Institute of Economic Affairs Budget Challenge
Win £1,000 for you and your school!
Your chance to enter a team for a national competition that will help them to learn more about economics, develop their writing, research, and analytical skills, and give them a better understanding of the policy issues and challenges facing national decision makers.
Institute of International Monetary Research, Vinson Centre and Institute of Economic Affairs Monetary Policy Essay competition 2021-22
Essay title: Entrants should write an essay on “Does inflation matter? And will the current inflation upturn be transitory or not?”
Economics Thought Leaders Symposium
The ETLS is an annual three-day residential symposium bringing together some of the brightest young minds.
The Ideas Network 2030
The Vinson Centre at the University of Buckingham is pleased to support the Summer University of The Ideas Network 2030 which brings together a range of expert academic speakers on topics in political economy examined from an economic, geo-political, demographic and environmental perspective
IIMR Webinar Series 2021: Lawrence Goodman, Centre for Financial Stability
Money and inflation in the USA
Webinar – MA in Political Economy by Research
No CategoriesJoin us for a webinar to learn more about the new MA in Political Economy by Research from the IEA and the Vinson Centre for the Public Understanding of Economics and Entrepreneurship at the University of Buckingham.
The programme can be completed by distance learning and is aimed at graduates with a strong interest in the history of economic ideas and the application of economics to questions of public policy.
Online seminars throughout the MA course will cover topics on Adam Smith; David Ricardo; John Stuart Mill; Alfred Marshall; the marginalists and neoclassical economics; Karl Marx; Friedrich Hayek and the Austrians; J.M. Keynes; James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock and public choice theory; the Frankfurt School; and behavioural economics.
Please register HERE if you would like to attend.
IIMR Webinar Series Summer 2021: Dirk Ehnts, TU Chemnitz
What should we do with the Government debt accumulated by central banks since March 2020?
IIMR Webinar Series Summer 2021: Tim Congdon, Geoffrey Wood, Brandon Davies and Juan Castaneda
A round table discussion: The state of the economy and inflation outlook for 2021 and 2022
IIMR Webinar Series 2021: Mark Skousen, Chapman University
The implications of using Gross Output for the making of monetary policy decisions
IIMR Webinar Series 2021: Lawrence White, George Mason University
Bitcoin and Gold Standards: Similarities and Differences
IIMR Webinar Series 2021: John Greenwood, Invesco
The IIMR Money Webinar Series spring term 2021 starts on 14th April
IIMR Webinar Series 2021
The IIMR Money Webinar Series spring term 2021 starts on 14th April