Use of Knowledge in Society : Baddegama or Blockchain?
Details
• What we'll do
5.30 PM - Introduction to Nightwatchman Society
5.40 PM - Talk by Aruni Shapiro (Sinhala)
6.15 PM - Q&A followed by discussion (Sinhala and English)
බැද්දේගම ද? බ්ලොක්චේන් ද? -අරුණි ශපීරෝ වෙතින්
බොහෝ දෙනෙක් කියවා ඇති බැද්දේගම නවකතාව ලියූ ලෙනාර්ඩ් වුල්ෆ් එයින් ලංකාවේ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය පාලන සමය තුල දිග හැරෙන ඛේදවාචකයක් අපට පිළිගන්වයි. ලංකාවේ අතලොස්සක් පමණක් දන්නා ලෙනාඩ් ඊ. රීඩ් ලාංකිකයා ගැන සුබවාදී සඳහනක් "මම, පැන්සල" තුලින් අපට පිළිගන්වයි. එය ලියැවෙන්නේ එෆ්. ඒ. හයෙක් පැහැදිලි කළ "සමාජයේ දැනුම භාවිතය" ප්‍රයෝගිකව සිද්ධ වන ආකාරය පැහැදිලි කරන්නටයි. බැද්දේගම ඛේදවාචකය ද? සමාජයේ දැනුම භාවිතය විදහා පෙන්වන බ්ලොක්චේන් තාක්ෂණය ද? තෝරාගන්නට පෙර දැනගන්න. මෙය දාර්ශනික අදහස්වලට සීමාවෙන සුහද සංවාදයකි.
A Village in the Jungle Or Blockchain?
A talk in Sinhala + bilingual Q&A by Aruni Shapiro
BRIEF
What is the basic problem faced by society when constructing a rational economic order? That is the question F.A. Hayek starts off with in his seminal essay the "Use of Knowledge in Society" In his novel "Village in the Jungle", Leonard Woolf presented us a tragedy of a poor family in British Ceylon. Woolf describes an interventionist state resorting to central planning to solve even the most mundane of problems faced by individuals. Blockchain, the breakthrough technology that powers the cryptocurrency BitCoin offers an alternative vision to organize society and it's affairs through radical decentralization.
Which system provides the best answer to Hayek's question? Join us for a talk in Sinhala by Aruni Shapiro followed by a bi-lingual discussion.
• The Speaker
Aruni Shapiro was born in Sri Lanka and studied at Kelaniya University and the University of British Columbia, where she earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, respectively, in Philosophy. She continued her studies and teaching in that field at Fresno State University and the University of Tennessee. She has authored seven books on topics ranging from American history to psychology. She is a Board Member of The Bastiat Society, USA. Most recently, she has translated “The Economics of Freedom” (2015) by Atlas Network, Economics in One Day by Foundation for Economics (online), “We the Living” by Ayn Rand (online), “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Reed (2016), The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Incredibly Condensed Theory of Moral Sentiments by Eamonn Butler (online), the use of knowledge in society by FA Hayek, into Sinhala. Aruni maintains a Wordpress blog since 2010 in Sinhala to discuss ideas of Liberty and Free Market capitalism.