Hayek Lecture
{{Short description|Lecture series at the Institute of Economic Affairs}}
The Hayek Lecture is hosted annually by the Institute of Economic Affairs in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek.
The first Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University in June 1992. The lecture has been delivered by speakers ranging from academics to religious leaders, from politicians to historians. Subjects have included immigration, private education in the developing world, the economic relationship between China and Europe, and the future of capitalism.{{cite web |url=http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=page&ID=24 |title=Institute of Economic Affairs |accessdate=2010-10-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20030220163846/http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=page&ID=24 |archivedate=2003-02-20 }}
Speakers
- 1992 – Jeffrey Sachs, director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
- 1993 – Michael Novak, director of social and political studies, American Enterprise Institute
- 1994 – Peter Sutherland, businessman and former attorney general of Ireland
- 1995 – The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
- 1996 – Dr Donald Brash, former governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
- 1997 – Dr Vaclav Klaus, president, Czech Republic
- 1998 – Baron Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
- 1999 – Professor Otmar Issing, former member of the executive board of the European Central Bank
- 2000 – Dr Benno Schmidt, Edison Schools
- 2001 – Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School
- 2002 – Hernando de Soto, president, of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
- 2003 – Bill Emmott, former editor-in-chief, The Economist
- 2004 – Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times
- 2005 – Andrew Neil, journalist and broadcaster
- 2006 – The Hon Gale Norton, US Interior Secretary 2001-2006
- 2007 – Terence Kealey, professor of clinical biochemistry, University of Buckingham
- 2008 – Paul Johnson, writer and historian
- 2009 – James Tooley, professor of education policy at Newcastle University
- 2010 – Professor Gary Becker, economist and Nobel laureate
- 2011 – Robert Barro of Harvard University. Considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomic, Barro is the current Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard{{Cite web|url=http://www.iea.org.uk/events/annual-iea-hayek-memorial-lecture-0|title = Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He8e7UROd8U |title=Hayek Lecture 2011: Robert Barro on 'Fiscal-Stimulus Packages' |date=2011-07-16 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, professor of political science, Indiana University, 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xta1vPkSjk4 |title=2012 Hayek Lecture: Prof Elinor Ostrom speaks on market failure and government regulation |date=2016-08-11 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2013 – Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), co-founder of the Islamic Free Market Institute{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXfhPTVfjIE |title=Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture 2013: Grover Norquist speaks on tax policy |date=2016-08-11 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2014 – John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQQA-XleQ-s |title=Hayek Memorial Lecture 2014: Prof. John Taylor |date=2016-07-19 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2015 – William Easterly, professor of economics, New York University.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fChXJvBgpg |title=Hayek Lecture 2015: Prof William Easterly |date=2016-07-19 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2016 – George Selgin, professor emeritus of economics, University of Georgia
- 2017 – Steven Landsburg, professor of economics, University of Rochester{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftXS8uJwL-Q |title=Hayek Lecture 2017: "Is the World Over or Underpopulated, and How Would We Know?" |date=2017-11-25 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2018 – Matt Ridley, author, journalist and businessman{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc37sGaMvSo |title=Hayek Lecture 2018: How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change The World? |date=2018-11-20 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2019 – Bryan Caplan, professor of economics, George Mason University{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaCpyuwRIw |title='POVERTY – Who’s to Blame?' - The 2019 Hayek Memorial Lecture - Professor Bryan Caplan |date=2019-12-06 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2020 – Stephen Davies, economic historian, author{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr7GeoJv7rI |title=The World After the Pandemic - Hayek Lecture 2020 |date=2020-12-17 |last=Institute of Economic Affairs |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}
- 2021 – Thomas Sowell, economist
- 2022 – Joseph Henrich, professor of evolutionary biology, Harvard University
- 2023 – Edward Chancellor, financial historian