ADAM SMITH, FREE MARKETS, AND THE MODERN WORLD

January 29 - February 1, 2012

Adam Smith is often regarded as the first theorist of free market economics. His classic book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, was published the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, and it has had a deep and lasting influence on the modern world.

This third CCA of the 2011-2012 academic year will consider the life, work, and influence of Adam Smith.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 29

4:00 p.m. “Adam Smith: Life and Times”
               Nicholas Phillipson
               Author, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
  
8:00 p.m.  “A Book that Changed the World”
                P.J. O’Rourke
                Author, On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World

MONDAY, JANUARY 30

4:00 p.m. “Smith’s Other Book: The Theory of Moral Sentiments”
               James R. Otteson
               Author, Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life

8:00 p.m. “Adam Smith and the Creation of the American Economy”
               Roy C. Smith
               Author, Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise:
               How the Founding Fathers Turned to a Great Economist’s Writings
               and Created the American Economy

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31

4:00 p.m. “The Centrality of the Invisible Hand”
               Mark Skousen
               Author, The Big 3 in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx
               and John Maynard Keynes

8:00 p.m. “Wealth of a Nation: Free Enterprise in American History”
               John Steele Gordon
               Author, Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
  

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

4:00 p.m. Faculty Roundtable
                Paul Moreno, Chairman
                John W. Grant
                Terrence O. Moore
                Gary Wolfram

All Speakers Confirmed