Adam Smith 300 Symposium - General Sale

The day-long Symposium will feature international scholars and practitioners, who will bring Smith into conversations with contemporary issues. Panel discussions will include topics such as:

• Why Smith? Why Glasgow?

• Smith & the Politics & Policy Implications of his of Political Economy

• Smith & the Economics of his Political Economy.

Keynote speakers and panellists include:

• Dr Craig Smith, Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment (Politics)

• Professor Ben Friedman (Harvard)

• Professor Ryan Hanley (Boston College)

• Professor Mary Morgan (LSE)

• Professor Maria Pia Paganell (Chair Smith Society)

• Professor Steve Medema (Duke)

• Sir John Kay (FT)

• Professor Anne Case (Princeton)

• Glory Liu (Harvard)

• Adam Posen (Peterson)

• Professor Sir Tim Besley (LSE)

• Professor Diane Coyle (Cambridge)

• Professor Nava Ashaf (LSE)

• Doug Irwin (Dartmouth)

• Professor Randall S. Kroszner (Chicago Booth)

At the Symposium, we will have the pleasure of premiering a piece of music commissioned for the tercentenary by Professor Kathleen Riach of the Adam Smith Business School and written and composed by University of Glasgow alumni and composer Helen MacKinnon. There will also be a chance to view Adam Smith artefacts which will be on display from the University of Glasgow collections.

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