For the third year Freedom Week will take place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, from 7 to 11 July 2008.
It is entirely free for the participating students (full board), though transport costs to and from Cambridge will not be refunded.
Because this seminar is funded by private donations, we require participants to be present for the whole period of the seminar (from Monday 7July lunchtime until Friday 11 July after lunch) and to take part in all the lectures. There is ample free time in between and after lectures to meet socially.
Draft Timetable:
Monday 7 July:
Arrival my midday
Buiffet lunch
Welcome
Why spontaneity beats planning - Dr. Madsen Pirie
Hayek and the spontaneanous order tradition
Dinner Great Hall
Tuesday 8 July:
Liberalism and social justice - Dr. Craig Smith
Classical liberalism and globalisation - Professor Steve Davies
Lunch Great Hall
Competition and the market process - Dr. Anthony Evans
Public choice and the politics of government failure - Dr. Mark Pennington
Dinner Old Library (with guest speakers)
Wednesday 9 July:
Transition economies: lessons for classical liberals - Dr. Anthony Evans
Problems of egalitarianism - Chandran Kukathas
Lunch Great Hall
Punting
Classical liberalism and the welfare state - Professor Steve Davies
BBQ organised by the Adam Smith Institute
Thursday 10 July:
Private provision of collective goods - Professor Steve Davies
Free market environmentalism - Dr. Mark Pennington
Lunch Great Hall
Adam Smith and political economy - Dr. Craig Smith
Liberty and Multiculturalism - Chandran Kukathas
Drinks reception offered by the Institute of Economic Affairs
Dinner Great Hall (with guest speakers and guest of honour)
Friday 11 July:
A private education for all - by Dr. Mark Pennington
The next 50 years of freedom, markets and opportunities - by Dr. Madsen Pirie
Case studey: is the European Union a free market? - JP Floru
Lunch Great Hall
Departure delegates
"I think it a tragedy that in a country which has inspired many others to adopt market-oriented reforms, so few of our young people have any awareness of the basic principles that inform the case for the free society. As a university lecturer, I despair at the ignorance of classical liberal principles that students exhibit though this ignorance is understandable given the continuing dominance of the far left in many of our higher educational institutions. Freedom Week will provide a superb opportunity to bring together some of the brightest and most open-minded students and to expose them to the underlying philosophical and economic principles that form the bedrock for a free society."
Dr. Mark Pennington
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy
Queen Mary, University of London
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