2025
Conserving wildlife through trading wildlife
Title: Conserving wildlife through trading wildlife
Speaker: Dr Francis Vorhies
Speaker’s Affiliation: Earthmind
Date: Wednesday 19 February, 2025.
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building (1st floor), University of Buckingham.
Competitive forces of a banking system – Empirical issues and development of theoretical discussions
Speaker: Dr Virginia – Anastasia Fournari
Speaker’s Affiliation: University of Thessaly
Date: Tuesday 28 January, 2025.
Time: 13:00 – 14:30
Venue: VB2, Vinson Building (1st floor), University of Buckingham.
2024
Economic Affairs Applied Research Workshop 2024
‘Advancing a Classical Liberal Understanding of the Agenda for a Free Society’
This workshop will offer invited scholars a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful and constructive discussions of working papers to help prepare them for submission to Economic Affairs or other journals. Our aim is to contribute to improving the quality of every paper accepted to the workshop. While we are making an open call for proposals, the Economic Affairs Applied Research Workshop will be a select event open only to invited paper presenters and scholars. An academic committee will review submissions and select up to twenty paper presenters, whose work will comprise the core workshop agenda.
Location: The workshop will be being held at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Madrid: Calle de Arturo Soria, 245, 28033 Madrid, Spain.
Date: December 13-14, 2024.
Deadline for submission of proposals (abstract): 31 July 2024.
Web page with more information: https://economicaffairsworkshop.ufm.edu/
For further information, contact Juan Castaneda at juan.castaneda@buckingham.ac.uk
About Economic Affairs
Economic Affairs is a peer reviewed journal published by the Vinson Centre at the University of Buckingham and the Institute of Economic Affairs, in collaboration with Universidad de las Hespérides and Universidad Francisco Marroquín, through academic publisher Wiley. It is edited by Professor Len Shackleton.
The journal is indexed by Scopus and is part of the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). It has published a wide range of authors from around the world, including a number of Nobel Prize laureates, while focusing on non-mathematical approaches to economic analysis.
For more than forty years, the journal has published original work and commentaries by hundreds of authors broadly sharing our approach to classical liberal political economy. Nowadays, in contrast with some of our other output, it has a particularly strong international focus. Three-quarters of our readership is based overseas, as is a large proportion of our authors. This was not the case when Economic Affairs was first launched by Arthur Seldon and the IEA back in 1980.
The journal is published three times per year, in February, May, and October. Here you can access the latest issues.
The journal publishes main articles (around 7,000 words in length), as well as short articles, of no more than 3,500 words, reporting on larger studies which may be published in full elsewhere. The journal also has a book review section.
IEA & Vinson Centre Conference
‘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 Harriet Dunbar-Morris (Pro 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 ‘How Understanding Lack Uncovers Moral Foundations of 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 – Dr Aris Trantidis (Lincoln University) on ‘A new approach to 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 (Manchester Metropolitan University) 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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IFT-Vinson Centre Lecture: Left-wing Visions of a Free Trade World
Title: IFT-Vinson Centre Lecture: Left-wing Visions of a Free Trade World
Speakers: Dr Juan Castaneda (Vinson Centre, University of Buckingham, Professor Donald Boudreaux (George Mason University), Lord Daniel Hannan (IFT President, UK Board of Trade, Life Peer of the House of Lords) and Shanker Singham (Trade lawyer, former advisor to Trade Secretary, author, CEO of Competere)
Venue: Reform Club, 104 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5EW
Date: 16 October 2024
Time: 10:00 – 12:00
Can corporate credit market interventions unlock recovery? Evidence from Japan
Speaker: Dr Isabelle Roland
Speaker’s Affiliation: Bank of England
Venue: Enterprise Hub, Vinson Building (1st floor), University of Buckingham.
Date: 9 October 2024
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
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.
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.
Please note that the date and venue of this event have now been changed.
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
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.
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
Webinar – MA in Political Economy by Research
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Join 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.
IIMR Webinar Series 2021: Lawrence Goodman, Centre for Financial Stability
Money and inflation in the USA
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