Austrian Economics in London

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Retrolives Posted: Mon, Nov 24 2008 11:26 AM

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Hi all, are there any events, seminars, associations or institutes in London UK that would be of interest to a Misesian? I know of the Adam Smith Institute but I get the impression they are pretty close to Cato in their outlook.

Thanks!

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David replied on Tue, Nov 25 2008 4:08 PM

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Hi Retro,

I am a total outsider to London, and have never been to the UK, but I did come across these links last week for the Libertarian Alliance.

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/

http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/

They recently hosted a conference that yielded videos of lectures by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, David Friedman, and others. Maybe this link to their site would provide some possible leads on upcoming events and related groupts? Hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,

David

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Fried Egg replied on Thu, Nov 27 2008 3:27 AM

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The Adam Smith institute are a broadly in favour of economic liberalism but their approach is strongly pragmatic and therefore very watered down (from an ideological point of view). From what I have read, Austrian economics does not inform their thinking noticably.

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Simon Lote replied on Thu, Nov 27 2008 2:16 PM

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The Adam Smith institute is very much like CATO in the sense its more interested in reaching out to westminster insiders and is more interested in pro-liberty policy wonkage than being firebrands - they leave that the Libertarian Alliance, and I have had the pleasure of attending a meeting the late founder of the Libertarian Alliance Chris Tame.

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Fried Egg replied on Tue, Dec 2 2008 10:04 AM

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Mind you, Hayek is listed as one of the Adam Smith's institute's heroes. Along with Milton Friedman and, of course, Adam Smith.

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Retrolives replied on Tue, Dec 2 2008 10:46 AM

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Thanks for all the replies!!

I'll definitely check out the Adam Smith Institute and see what its like. I don't live in London myself either, its for my brother who works in the City and is now reading a lot of Rothbard and Peter Schiff stuff.

If you come across any other stuff please pass it on. Thanks again!