The 1776 Lecture: Rory Sutherland on The American Revolution, Adam Smith and Self-Checkouts Adam Smith Institute 2026-09-21 | The 1776 Lecture: Rory Sutherland on The American Revolution, Adam Smith and Self-Checkouts
Why should the UK join the WTOs MPIA? Adam Smith 2024-01-17 | What is the MPIA and why is joining it important for world trade?Maxwell Marlow, our Director of Research, explainsRead the full paper here: https://www.adamsmith.org/research/wo...
The Kuznets curve, Economics 101 Adam Smith 2024-01-15 | In our educational series 'Economics 101' Dr Madsen Pirie explains a range of fundamentals economic ideas. This video walks though the Kuznets curve, what is it, and how it can help us understand economies.
Taxation, Economics 101 Adam Smith 2024-01-12 | In our educational series ' Economics 101' Dr Madsen Pirie explains a range of fundamentals economic ideas. This video explains taxation, what it is and how it effects the economy.
The Zero-Sum Fallacy, Economics 101 Adam Smith 2024-01-11 | In our educational series ' Economics 101' Dr Madsen Pirie explains a range of fundamentals economic ideas. This video walks though the Zero-Sum fallacy , what is it, and how it impacts our decisions.
Fiscal Drag Adam Smith 2024-01-10 | What is fiscal drag? And how is it affecting you?Mimi Yates explains
Value, Economics 101 Adam Smith 2024-01-09 | In our educational series ' Economics 101' Dr Madsen Pirie explains a range of fundamentals economic ideas. This video walks though the concept of value, what is it, and how it is created.
In Conversation with Mick Mulvaney Adam Smith 2023-12-04 | Former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney joined the Adam Smith Institute and our Patron, The Rt Hon Sir Brandon Lewis CBE MP, to discuss the US election and the current state of the Republican Party
Full Expensing Adam Smith 2023-11-23 | Our James Price explains what the UK's 'full expensing' policy means- and why it should be made permanent
Freedoms Fighters with Nadhim Zahawi MP Adam Smith 2023-11-13 | Join Dr Madsen Pirie in a new series of Freedom’s Fighters. These exclusive interviews will bring out what motivates our chosen Freedom Fighter, where the audience gets to enjoy some personal life stories and reflections on their careers.Our first guest of the series was the Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP.
THE NEXT GENERATION: Lord Hannan on this is why we cant have nice things Adam Smith 2023-07-14 | Lord Hannan of Kingsclere joins us for our July 'The Next Generation' event, with a talk entitled 'this is why we can't have nice things'.Lord Hannan is a writer, journalist, and President of the Institute for Free Trade.A little bit more about our TNGs...The Next Generation events are aimed at creating a network of young people interested in ideas that are shaping our world. They've been going for as long as the ASI has, and have been attended by people who went on to become Cabinet Ministers, Prime Ministers, Editors and CEOs. Whatever your politics, we just like interesting ideas. It's for under-35s, its informal, and there's always some warm wine on offer. Email events@adamsmith.org for more info.
ASIs Forgotten Medium Event Adam Smith 2023-03-08 | Duncan Simpson, Minister Kevin Hollinrake MP, Saqib Bhatti MP and Richard Harpin provided great analyses of our new report Forgotten Medium: Helping Mid-Sized Businesses to Scale Up.
Intergenerational Inequality on GB News Adam Smith 2022-12-16 | Our Head of Research, Daniel Pryor, appears on the Briefing with Tom Harwood to discuss our new paper 'Boomer and Bust: Realigning Incentives to Reduce Intergenerational Inequality' Recorded 16th December 2022
The four day working week on GB News Adam Smith 2022-12-13 | The Director of the ASI, Eamonn Butler, appears on GB News to discuss the four day working week
Easing the Cost of Living on Times Radio Adam Smith 2022-12-13 | ASI's Director of Strategy John Macdonald appears on Times Radio to discuss how to cut the cost of livingRecorded on the 5th September 2022
Unpacking the mini-budget on BBC Radio 2 Adam Smith 2022-12-13 | ASI Head of Research discusses Liz Truss' mini-budget on BBC Radio 2
The Rwanda scheme on GB News Adam Smith 2022-12-13 | Our Head of Research, Daniel Pryor, appears on GB News to discuss the Rwanda scheme
Breaking Up the Home Office on GB News Adam Smith 2022-12-13 | Report author Henry Hill appears on GB News to discuss his new report 'A Broken Home: Why Its Time to Break Up the Home Office'
Breaking Up the Home Office on Times Radio Adam Smith 2022-12-13 | Report author Henry Hill appears on Times Radio to discuss his new report "A Broken Home: Why Its Time to Split Up the Home Office"
The four day working week on ITV News Adam Smith 2022-12-12 | Head of Research, Daniel Pryor, was on ITV News discussing the 4 day working week
Unpacking the mini-budget on BBC Newsnight Adam Smith 2022-12-12 | Our Director of Operations, Morgan Schondelmeier, discussed the fall-out from the mini-budget on BBC NewsnightRecorded on 28th September
£300 payment to pensioners - TalkTV Adam Smith 2022-12-09 | ASI Director of Strategy, John Macdonald, discusses the £300 payment to pensioners on TalkTV.
Whats Next for UK Economic Policy? In Conversation With Dan Mitchell Adam Smith 2022-11-02 | What does a credible pro-growth agenda look like in an environment of political turmoil? Daniel J. Mitchell, President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, joined us in conversation with Dr. Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute.
Break up the Home Office- TalkTV Adam Smith 2022-10-28 | ASI Director of Operations, Morgan Schondelmeier, discusses our new report 'A Broken Home: Why It's Time to Break Up the Home Office' which calls for the Home Office to be broken up into two separate departments.Read the full report here: adamsmith.org/research/a-broken-home-why-its-time-to-split-up-the-home-office
The future of the Conservative Party- Times Radio Adam Smith 2022-10-24 | John Macdonald, Director of Strategy at the Adam Smith Institute, discusses the future of the Conservative Party post-Truss with Ruth Davidson and Ryan Shorthouse of Bright Blue
Kate Andrews discusses Windfall Taxes on The Pin Factory Adam Smith 2022-06-10 | Kate Andrews, Economics Editor for The Spectator, discusses Windfall Taxes on the latest episode of The Pin Factory Podcast.Listen to the full episode on Spotify or wherever you access your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0re59ZV8G2jE233uHoRNxR?si=2f69dd3c92234998Recorded on the 8th June 2022
Governing Artificial Intelligence with Adam Thierer Adam Smith 2022-06-10 | Following on from his essay 'The Proper Governance Default for AI', Adam Thierer discussed why it is so essential to get our policy defaults set properly if we hope to encourage entrepreneurialism and growth.Adam commented on recent artificial intelligence policy in the EU and how the UK and US can chart a wiser course by avoiding the the heavy-handed, precautionary principle-based approach that the EU is set to impose via the new AI Act and other cumbersome regulations.About the Speaker:Adam Thierer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Thierer serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Artificial Intelligence Commission on Competitiveness, Inclusion, and Innovation. He is also a member of the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project.Thierer has authored and edited several books, including his foundational book on the freedom to innovate, Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom. Previously, Thierer was president of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He received his MA in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland and his BA in Journalism and Political Philosophy from Indiana University.Recorded on the 9th June 2022
Kate Andrews discusses Tax Freedom Day on the Pin Factory Adam Smith 2022-06-09 | Kate Andrews, Economics Editor for The Spectator discusses Tax Freedom Day on the Pin Factory Podcast.Recorded on the 8th June 2022.Watch the full episode on Spotify or wherever you access your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0re59ZV8G2jE233uHoRNxR?si=2f69dd3c92234998To see what we have to say about Tax Freedom Day: adamsmith.org/news/brits-spend-over-40-of-the-year-working-for-the-taxman
Tax Freedom Day 2022 - ASIs Daniel Pryor on BBC News Adam Smith 2022-06-08 | ASI Head of Research Daniel Pryor appears on BBC News to discuss Tax Freedom Day 2022. Tax Freedom Day is the day the average Brit stops working for the taxman and starts working for themselves. To find out more about Tax Freedom Day, visit www.adamsmith.org/taxfreedomday Recorded: 8 June 2022
Tax Freedom Day 2022 - ASIs Madsen Pirie appears on GB News Adam Smith 2022-06-08 | ASI President Dr Madsen Pirie appears on GB News with Tom Harwood to discuss Tax Freedom Day. Tax Freedom Day is the day the average Brit stops working for the taxman and starts working for themselves. To find out more about Tax Freedom Day, visit www.adamsmith.org/taxfreedomday Recorded: 8 June 2022
Tax Freedom Day 2022 - ASIs Emily Fielder appears on TalkTV Adam Smith 2022-06-08 | ASI's Head of Communications Emily Fielder appears on TalkTV with Julia Hartley Brewer to discuss Tax Freedom Day. Tax Freedom Day is the day the average Brit stops working for the taxman and starts working for themselves. To find out more about Tax Freedom Day, visit www.adamsmith.org/taxfreedomday Recorded: 8 June 2022
Tax Freedom Day 2022 - ASIs Madsen Pirie appears on GB News Adam Smith 2022-06-08 | ASI President Dr Madsen Pirie appears on GB News with Tom Harwood to discuss Tax Freedom Day. Tax Freedom Day is the day the average Brit stops working for the taxman and starts working for themselves. To find out more about Tax Freedom Day, visit www.adamsmith.org/taxfreedomday Recorded: 8 June 2022
Tax Freedom Day 2022 - ASIs Emily Fielder appears on TalkTV Adam Smith 2022-06-08 | ASI's Head of Communcations Emily Fielder appears on TalkTV with Julia Hartley Brewer to discuss Tax Freedom Day. Tax Freedom Day is the day the average Brit stops working for the taxman and starts working for themselves. To find out more about Tax Freedom Day, visit www.adamsmith.org/taxfreedomday Recorded: 8 June 2022
Tax Freedom Day 2022 - ASIs Morgan Schondelmeier appears on BBC Politics Live Adam Smith 2022-06-08 | ASI's Director of Operations Morgan Schondelmeier appears on BBC Politics Live to discuss Tax Freedom Day. Tax Freedom Day is the day the average Brit stops working for the taxman and starts working for themselves. To find out more about Tax Freedom Day, visit www.adamsmith.org/taxfreedomday Recorded: 8 June 2022
Fiona Townsley on her gap year at the ASI Adam Smith 2022-06-01 | Fiona Townsley, Research Associate, explains some of the highlights during her year at the ASI.Recorded on the 17th May 2022
Deirdre McCloskey: How Liberty Made the Modern World Adam Smith 2022-06-01 | Any innovation—mechanical, biological, institutional, scientific, artistic, personal—begins of course in a human mind. The point is obvious, but has not been prominent in economics. The unprecedented economic growth since 1800, a Great Enrichment of a fully 3,000 percent increase in real income per person, has been traced by economists instead to various intermediate and largely material causes—investment; exploitation; the rule of law—not to the creative fundament of ideas in human minds.Economics needs to understand the conditions for the flourishing of liberty and its fruits in enriching ideas, and to see that good laws and long railways and creative science and strong institutions depend on it and the ethical accompaniments of liberty, every time. This talk will examine how the role of ideas such as a culture of free speech and an economy of enterprise are key factors that explain the 'Great Enrichment'.About the Speaker:Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard in the 1960s as an economist, she has written twenty books and some four hundred academic articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistical theory, feminism, ethics, and law.She taught for twelve years at the University of Chicago in the Economics Department in its glory days, but now describes herself as a “literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, ex-Marxist, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’! I’m a Christian classical liberal.”Her most recent popular books, for example, are Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale University Press, 2019) and with Art Carden Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: The Bourgeois Deal (University of Chicago Press, 2020).Recorded on the 31st May 2022
The Chancellors upcoming statement on the cost of living on Times Radio Adam Smith 2022-05-26 | John Macdonald, Director of Strategy, discusses the Chancellor's upcoming statement on the cost of living on Times Radio.Recorded on the 25th May 2022
Madsen Pirie on Talking Pints with Nigel Farage Adam Smith 2022-05-25 | Dr Madsen Pirie discusses free markets and regulation.The full interview can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=9bnRe7DnBUs&t=90sRecorded on the 24th May 2022.
Ayn Rands Philosophy for Freedom and Flourishing with Craig Biddle Adam Smith 2022-05-25 | Ayn Rand described Objectivism as “a philosophy for living on earth.” This is because it provides principled guidance for making life-serving choices, taking life-serving actions, and establishing a free society—so that we can make such choices and take such actions. Craig Biddle will outline the basic principles of Objectivism, with emphasis on how they can help you think more clearly, live more fully, and defend freedom on solid ground.About the Speaker:Craig Biddle is cofounder and director of education and programs at Objective Standard Institute, cofounder and editor in chief of The Objective Standard, and executive director of Prometheus Foundation. His books include Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It; Rational Egoism: The Morality for Human Flourishing; and the forthcoming Forbidden Facts: Moral Truths Your Parents, Preachers, and Teachers Don’t Want You to Know.Recorded on the 24th May 2022
