The Free Market Road Show London--with Eamonn Butler, Barbara Kolm & More

The Ayn Rand Centre UK is teaming up once again with the Austrian Economics Center to bring you the London Free Market Road Show.

18:00: Opening Remarks

18:10: Lessons for Free Market Advocates from Liz Truss’s Time in Office
Panellists: Eamonn Butler, Razi Ginzberg, Max Rangeley

When Liz Truss became Prime Minister, she announced sweeping free market reforms with her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng. The political backlash was immediate and unprecedented, and led to her resignation after less than two months in office.
How has Truss’s time in office affected the way free market ideas are viewed by the general public? Has the Overton Window shifted, and if so, in which direction?

19:40: The Enemies of Entrepreneurship
Panellists: Hannes Gissurarson, Barbara Kolm, Dan Mitchell

In the culture at large, lip service is still paid to the notion that entrepreneurship is good. But the list of reasons to restrict business and innovation is ever growing, from net zero to zero Covid, to the supposed risks of technology. How can we stand up to the enemies of entrepreneurship?