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Other IEA Audio and Video

IEA Climate Change Debate

Videos of the presentations at the IEA Climate Change Debate are available. The participants discussed the question: “Do Science and Economics Support Government Action on Climate Change?”. Each speaker provided a different perspective on the economics or the science. Debating the topic (in the order of the videos below) were: Prof. Fred Singer from Science and Environmental Policy Project, Nigel Lawson from The Global Warming Policy Foundation, Prof. Mike Hulme from the University of East Anglia and
Dr. Sam Frankhauser from the London School of Economics.

You can download the individual speeches or a video of all four speakers.

Prof. Fred Singer
Nigel Lawson
Prof. Mike Hulme
Dr. Sam Frankhauser
All Four Speakers


Student/teacher seminar

A recent IEA teachers' workshop featured sessions led by Dr Mark Pennington on “Environmentalists: Nice but Wrong?”; Dr Stephen Davies on “Trade, Trade Connections and History”; Dr John Meadowcroft on “Social Capital and the Culture of the Market”; and Richard D North on “Rich Really is Beautiful”. We have video presentations of the workshop below (approx 20 minutes each video). Click below to view the presentations:

Introduction by John Blundell
Mark Pennington on environmentalism
Steve Davies on trade
John Meadowcroft on social capital
Richard North on Rich is Beautiful

The Road to Economic Freedom

In association with Edward Elgar, the IEA has published a collection of all its writings by Nobel Prize Winners in The Road to Economic Freedom. We also have a short video introducing the book and the work of some of the IEA's laureates.

2009 Hayek Memorial Lecture by James Tooley

In his recent Hayek memorial lecture, James Tooley talked about the development of private education amongst the world's poorest people and how private education was both cheaper than and better than education provided by the state. The audio file lasts 57 minutes.