The Second Annual Chris R. Tame
Memorial Lecture and Drinks Reception
Admission Free!
Tuesday 17th March 2009 between 6.30pm and 8.30pm
at the National Liberal Club, One Whitehall Place,
London SW1 (nearest tube Embankment).
Professor Kevin Dowd
Lessons from the Financial Crisis:
A Libertarian Perspective
Professor Kevin Dowd is a long-standing libertarian economist whose main
work has been on free banking and unregulated monetary systems. He has
written extensively on the history and theory of free banking, the
mechanics of anarchist monetary systems and the failings of central
banking and financial regulation. His books on these subjects include
Private Money: The Path to Monetary Stability (IEA, 1988), The State and
the Monetary System (Philip Allan, 1989), Competition and Finance: A New
Interpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics (Macmillan, 1996) and
Money and the Market: Essays on Free Banking (Routledge, 2000).
He has current or past affiliations with the Cato Institute (Washington),
the Independent Institute (Oakland, CA), the Open Republic Institute
(Dublin), the Freedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco
(FOREST), the Institute of Economic Affairs (London) and the Pensions
Institute (London), as well as with the Libertarian Alliance. Over the
last ten years or so, he has worked primarily on financial risk,
pensions, insurance and longevity, but is now working on a book on the
current financial crisis and the lessons to be drawn from it. He holds
the chair in financial risk management at Nottingham University Business
School, where he works in the Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies.
He lives in Sheffield with his wife and their two daughters.
See Professor David Myddelton, "Slimming down Government": The First
Chris R. Tame Memorial Lecture, held at the National Liberal Club,
London, on the 18th March 2008 (html) - (pdf)
The dress code for this event is lounge suit or smart casual.
To confirm your attendance please RSVP
Dr. Helen Evans at helen@libertarian.co.uk
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