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The Institute of Economic Affairs invites you to attend:
IEA Founders' Day Party
with brief remarks at 7:00pm by:
Cécile Philippe
Institut Economique Molinari
Brussels, Belgium
on
The Appeal of Capitalism to Young Europeans
Master of Ceremonies: John Blundell, Director General, IEA
Date: Tuesday 3rd July 2007 - from: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: 2 Lord North Street, Westminster, SW1 (door on Great Peter
Street)
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READ
THE PRESENTATION
The appeal of capitalism to young Europeans
Capitalism is difficult to understand for the non-intellectuals
because its mechanisms are not very visible: this is the famous Adam
Smith's invisible hand. Also it is not a very appealing system for
intellectuals to defend because at the difference of statist systems,
it does not give them a very powerful role.
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On Founders' Day we celebrate the lives and
accomplishments of the four men who founded and built the IEA: F.A. Hayek,
Sir Antony Fisher, Lord Harris of High Cross and Dr Arthur Seldon. As IEA
Director General John Blundell often says: "The IEA's founding can be told
in nine words: Hayek advises Fisher; Fisher recruits Harris; Harris meets
Seldon."
July 3rd is selected because it is not only the anniversary of the day in
1945 when Fisher sought out Hayek but also the anniversary (or very close to
it) of the day in 1955 when the first IEA book (on abolishing exchange
controls) was published.
As Fisher said at the IEA on 3rd July 1985:
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"It was quite a day for
me when Friedrich Hayek gave me some advice which must be 40 years
ago almost to the day and which completely changed my life.
Friedrich got me started…and two of the things he said way back are
the things which have kept the IEA on course. One is to keep out of
politics and the other is to make an intellectual case …if you can
stick to these rules you keep out of a lot of trouble and apparently
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