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Vinson Centre Conference: Classical Liberalism 2026

In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (King’s College London)

On The Legacy of the Chicago School of Economics (On the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s Nobel Prize)

Date: 26 June 2026
Time: 10:00 – 19:00
Venue: Vinson Building Auditorium, University of Buckingham, Hunter Street, Buckingham, MK18 1EG.

Below are the sessions with their chairpersons.

Opening lecture – “The Legacy of the Chicago School of Economics.”

Session 1 – Market Regulation
Chairperson: Cento Veljanovski (Founder and Managing Partner of Case Associates).

Session 2 – On Friedman and the Quantity Theory of Money tradition
Chairperson: Professor Juan Castañeda (Director of the Vinson Centre, University of Buckingham).

Session 3 – Education and Human Capital
Chairperson: Professor Mark Pennington (Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society, Kings College).

Session 4 – Classical Liberalism: a dialogue on the methodology of Economics and of Political Economy
Chairperson: Dr James Forder (Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford).

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