Book launch: How to Think Like an Economist
Author Robbie Mochrie joins Professor Adam Dixon for a wide-ranging conversation about his new book How to Think Like an Economist: Economists Who Shaped the World and What They Can Teach Us.
This event coincides with the date of Adam Smith's birth, over 300 years ago, and takes place in his final remaining home. Expect there to be plenty of discussion about how clear thinking about the economy is important for a flourishing society.
Doors open at 15:00 for a 15:30 start.
Reserve your ticket via EventBrite. Please note that due to the intimate nature of Panmure House, tickets are limited.
Biography - Associate Professor Robbie Mochrie
After completing his PhD on the application of heuristic choices to sequential choices, Robbie Mochrie took up a post at Heriot-Watt University. His subsequent work has concentrated on understanding how people engage with, and are able to shape, the economic environment that surrounds them. This has involved work on the development of economic thought, especially in the 13th century and the Scottish Enlightenment; the historical development of the Scottish churches, understood as economic institutions; and challenges to the development of British credit unions.
Biography - Professor Adam Dixon
Professor Adam Dixon is the Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism at Adam Smith’s Panmure House, the last and final home of moral philosopher and father of economics Adam Smith. Responsible for developing and leading academic research at Panmure House on sustainable capitalism, focusing inter alia on the role of the global finance industry, the role of the state, and the role of corporations.
