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Madsen Pirie President of the Adam Smith Institute THE ADAM SMITH INSTITUTE A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 1 5 / 1 6 ANNUAL REVIEW 15/16 Foreword Letters from the founders Our Work 2015/16 at a glance Research with Ben Southwood Events with Sam Dumitriu Media with Flora Laven-Morris Students Outreach this year The Entrepreneurs Network with Philip Salter Support Us How to donate ANNUAL REVIEW 15/16 A LETTER FROM: Eamonn Butler Director of the Adam Smith Institute Each day, I am privileged to work with one But you do not have to be massive to make of the most talented and effective policy an impact. teams in Westminster – indeed, in the world. It is amazing what a few dedicated and capable people can achieve when they Travelling through the Americas, Europe have a clear focus. Our focus is to change and Asia, as I have this year, I am the world by advancing and debating constantly uplifted by the admiration and ideas: our method is to be radical but appreciation that people express for the reasonable; and our aim is to create a free work and support of the Adam Smith society and an open, competitive, vibrant Institute. economy. Uplifted, but no longer surprised: ours is a It is no easy fight: but our astonishing team well-earned reputation that regularly gets are well up for it. us voted among the world’s leading think tanks, ranking above many with budgets several times ours. 1 ANNUAL REVIEW 15/16 A LETTER FROM: Madsen Pirie President of the Adam Smith Institute I think it very worthwhile to expose student The fact that I publish books on economics, and sixth form audiences to ideas they philosophy, logic and public policy helps might not encounter in the course of their capture the interest and attention of my normal curriculum. audiences. It is hugely gratifying to receive follow-up They realise that there is an intelligently comments from students and their teachers coherent world view that allows space for concerning the insights they derived from individuals to express their preferences and hearing my talks and my answers to their to make their own choices, instead of questions. falling into a vision by others of how they ought to think and behave. This is the next generation of leaders in business, academe and public policy, and it This is among the most important is important to let them encounter free contributions made by the Adam Smith market and libertarian ideas that are a Institute. valid and vibrant alternative to the statism and collectivism they encounter daily. 2 Adam Smith Lecture 2015 was given by Ruth Davidson MP and attended by a AT A GLANCE: crowd of influential ASI subscribers, several MPs,and policymakers. ASI papers on planning policy, particularly the series arguing for building on some of the green belt, continue to drive the policy 1 debate. 2 Our social media presence continues to be unmatched in the free market movement, while our popular student events and 3community go from strength to strength. Our work on the ‘liberal Leave’ case for Brexit is one of the most influential and decisive elements of the Brexit referendum campaign and post- 4referendum debate 3 ANNUAL REVIEW 15/16 RESEARCH A bumper year for research A S I ' S H E A D O F R E S E A R C H , B E N S O U T H W O O D , T A L K S U S T H R O U G H A B U S Y Y E A R Drawing on long-term collaborators and new The UK and the World in 2050 by Dr. Madsen Pirie networks, we published sixteen reports and Dr Madsen Pirie looks at trends in scientific research and books. makes predictions about how new technology will change the way ordinary Britons live their lives, helping them to Two papers with the strongest impact were Tom solve the energy, environmental and health problems by Papworth’s papers on planning reform, which bookended the year’s output. which they are faced. They detailed how green belts are stopping the market The New Aristocrats – a cultural and economic analysis from building the housing that people demand, and making of the new status signaling by Ryan H. Murphy everyone worse off, for very little good reason. Ryan H. Murphy argues the case that our typical understanding of status signaling – ‘conspicuous They had a huge impact at the time and have popped up consumption’ – has become outmoded. The ‘new aristocrats’ again and again, weeks and months focus their energies instead on signaling their virtue, as after release. internet activism and environmentalism replace the ostentatious diamond rings of old. In the next few years, we’re hoping to highlight further the problems with the UK’s planning regime, in particular how it encourages unpopular, ugly buildings when density is Sound Money: An Austrian proposal for free banking, achievable with elegant styles, if regulation can only NGDP targets, and OMO reforms by Anthony J Evans be reformed. Evans lays out the first, second and third best policies for monetary reform. He outlines reforms to quantitative easing policy that would reduce the distortions it causes; and ultimately says the Bank of England should be scrapped altogether, replaced with privately-run ‘free banking’. 4 The Real Non-Sense: The Green Problem Was Examining non- Noose Nominal: The dom tax Crash of 2008 provisions Trial & Error & Time for Time No Stress I The Idea of Limits Progress Free Market Welfare: The Magna Carta: Utility Gains Case for a A primer Negative Income Tax ANNUAL REVIEW 15/16 EVENTS An eventful year A S I ' S H E A D O F P R O J E C T S , S A M D U M I T R I U , T A L K S U S T H R O U G H A B A C K T O B A C K Y E A R O F E V E N T S The ASI’s events schedule is diverse and The 2016 Adam Smith Lecture was given by growing, reaching donors, politicians, Prof. Deirdre McCloskey, one of the world’s foremost journalists, other think-tankers, academics, economic historians and classical liberal scholars. Over 100 people gathered to listen to her speak on the works and most importantly the opinion-formers and ideas of Adam Smith and discuss how they helped in and policy-makers of tomorrow, currently the making of the modern world. students in schools and at universities. Prof. Robin Hanson, of George Mason University, Our Next Generation group for under-30s—alumni of which explained the case of his book ‘The Age of Em’, which have gone on to dominate politics, business and the media imagines a world of cheaply-reproducible artificial —has gone from strength to strength, and their monthly copied minds. meetings are both convivial and intellectually stimulating. Recent speakers have included Peter Tatchell, Owen Jones Prof. Kevin Dowd presented his ASI paper ‘No Stress’ a and Claire Fox. case against the Bank of England’s stress tests at the Bank, to many of the Bank’s economists and staff. Our Independent Seminar on the Open Society for sixth formers has branched out, visiting Leeds and Manchester in Prof. Christian Dustmann gave an evening lecture on the addition to the London version that has challenged costs and benefits of modern immigration around the schoolkids and opened their minds since the 70s. Regular world, focusing on integration and assimilation in labour evening lectures have presented paradigm-shifting markets over time. monetary policy ideas, reforms to criminal justice, and even looked at a future of emulated minds and lab-grown meat. 6 Bottomless Adam Smith’s The licence resources lessons in 2015 racket - - - Tim Ruth David Worstall Davidson Skarbek In defence of Editing the TTIP of the the elite news iceberg - - - Matthew Christian Matt Ridley Paris May Becoming an Extreme Picking apart MP porn the election - - - Alan Myles Mark Mak MP Jackman Wallace ANNUAL REVIEW 15/16 MEDIA COVERAGE Making headlines A S I ' S H E A D O F C O M M U N I C A T I O N S , F L O R A L A V E N - M O R R I S , T A L K S U S T H R O U G H T H E D E L U G E O F C O V E R A G E As well as broadcast and social media, the We are on the cutting edge of today’s debates in politics ASI has a strong presence in print media and economic research, coming up with the best ways to and political websites. make free markets and individual liberty work to solve tomorrow’s policy challenges. Our comments, letters, and media briefings find their way Young people have always been at the heart of the Adam into all of the major daily and Sunday newspapers, and Smith Institute’s work so it is no surprise that we are one of staff regularly write op-eds in the key opinion-forming the leading think tanks in terms of online outreach. outlets. Papers from The Sun to the Financial Times have devoted extensive column inches to discussing our briefing We are the most followed centre-right think tank in Britain papers and reports. on every major platform: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. However, as we all know, the behemoths of print media are Our regular eBulletin reaches tens of thousands of declining, and the new battle of ideas will be fought on the subscribers, our event live video streams reach tens of internet.
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