tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2020-03-06T20:10:15+08:00 Peatix Adam Smith Center tag:peatix.com,2020:event-1419685 2020-03-05T18:30:00SGT 2020-03-05T18:30:00SGT

Location: 51 Cuppage Road #03-03 Singapore 229469 (Room: Vibrant 2&3)   If you are a Singaporean, chances are, you take many of your life's luxuries for granted. Consider that a child born in Haiti, if lucky enough to escape child slavery, will make a living of less than $5 a day performing backbreaking labor. By no fault of his own, the child is locked out of privileges like the wonder of education and the arts, doomed to a lifetime of abject poverty. On the other hand, the average Singaporean child who graduates from university and is employed at an entry-level wage, is already placed at a level of wealth far surpassing more than 98% of the world's population. Even the poorest Singaporean enjoys access to first-world standards of education, healthcare, and the richness of the world's arts and cultures.The answer to this harsh disparity in life is economic growth, which carries an miraculous humanitarian effect, posing a fascinating yet deeply serious question for economists and historians.How do nations become rich? To what extent should growth be led by governments or left to free markets? How does democracy and rule of law come into play? Or is foreign aid the answer? This question has been asked by Adam Smith in his 1776 magnum opus "Wealth of Nations", to Acemoglu & Robinson's wildly popular 2012 thesis "Why Nations Fail". Yet, it continues to be greatly misunderstood by the public today.Admission to the event is free of charge and all are welcome. Our speaker Dr. Tom Palmer will speak for approximately 40 minutes, followed by a free-and-easy Q&A.This event is Part One in Adam Smith Center's March series. Check our event catalogue for Part Two of the event series. About Us: The Adam Smith Center is an educational organisation promoting economics and public policy literacy in the tradition of Adam Smith, the father of modern economics. Wee do so through conducting public events and providing meaningful learning opportunities. About the Speaker: Our speaker, Dr. Tom G. Palmer is senior fellow at the Cato Institute and director of Cato University. He is also Executive Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Network and is responsible for establishing operating programs in 14 languages and managing programs for a worldwide network of think tanks. Before joining Cato he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford University, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice (expanded edition 2014), and the editor of The Morality of Capitalism (2011), After the Welfare State (2012), Why Liberty (2013), and Peace, Love, & Liberty (2014). Palmer received his BA in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland; his MA in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; and his doctorate in politics from Oxford University.He frequently lectures in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, India, Asia, and the Middle East on political science, public choice, civil society, and the moral, legal, and historical foundations of individual rights. He has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in publications such as Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Die Welt, Caixing, Al Hayat, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London.

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