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    Andrew Milligan Neil Kay Kenny Kemp David J. Teece Jerry Davis Professor Adam Dixon Ian Fraser Robert MacIntosh Benny Higgins Professor Sir Ian Boyd Kirsty Hamilton Jane Diplock AO Paul Hare Professor Sir John Kay Professor Susan Krumdieck Professor R A Williams David Pitt-Watson Willie Watt Professor Susan Krumdiek Professor John Ludden Sir Geoff Palmer
    • How America made Adam Smith an icon - and why we still need to read him

      Dr Glory Liu delivers the 2023 Lights of Caledonia Lecture at Panmure House in Edinburgh. Dr Liu discusses Smith's journey to iconic status through American Economic thought and why it's important we still read him today. Written by Kenny Kemp

      Monday 19 June 2023 Author: Kenny Kemp
    • Navigating Humanity in Adam Smith's Day: The Scottish Enlightenment, Slavery and Colonialism

      Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer OBE is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and a human rights campaigner.

      Monday 12 June 2023 Author: Sir Geoff Palmer
    • Smithian Sympathy: the ‘father of modern economics’ turns 300

      Professor Adam Dixon is the Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism here at Panmure House, Smith’s former home, now a centre for modern social and economic research and debate.

      Monday 5 June 2023 Author: Professor Adam Dixon
    • The Need for a New Social Contract

      Baroness Minouche Shafik Delivers Thought-Provoking Adam Smith Address on Need for a New Social Contact at Panmure House in Edinburgh. Written by Kenny Kemp

      Friday 5 May 2023 Author: Kenny Kemp
    • Energy and Energy Storage- Hutton One Year On

      There will be a shift towards home-grown energy solutions globally and thus renewables will expand.

      Friday 4 November 2022 Author: Professor John Ludden
    • The Role of Engineering in Climate Change - Hutton One Year On

      Our engineering success, and the economic system built on that success is not sustainable.

      Thursday 3 November 2022 Author: Professor Susan Krumdiek
    • ESG & Impact Investing - Hutton One Year On

      Successfully delivering impact investment requires commitment from investors to establish and implement clear decision-making frameworks and defined key performance indicators.

      Wednesday 2 November 2022 Author: Willie Watt
    • Taxes and Incentives- Hutton One Year On

      Tax an item and people will consume and produce less of it, incentivize it, and they will produce more.

      Tuesday 1 November 2022 Author: David Pitt-Watson
    • Global Availability of Resources- Hutton One Year On

      In effect, humanity is paying more to run faster and go backwards.

      Monday 31 October 2022 Author: Professor Sir Ian Boyd
    • Hutton Series on Climate Change: One Year On

      Confidence for change will come from individual choice and corporate purpose

      Friday 28 October 2022 Author: Professor R A Williams
    • Biden’s anti-monopoly crusade won’t fix our economic woes

      The tools that tamed corporate monopolies a century ago will not save us today and creating more competition will not help. The real problem remains shareholder capitalism.

      Tuesday 15 March 2022 Author: Jerry Davis
    • Corporations Must Do Their Part to Preserve Democracy

      China does whatever it can to thrive economically, putting freedom and prosperity at risk for the rest of the world.

      Monday 10 January 2022 Author: David J. Teece
    • The Role of Engineering in Addressing Climate Change

      Session Five of the Hutton Series saw the panellists recognising the importance of the transition in energy use and associated infrastructure and related behavioural patterns. Professor Susan Krumdieck outlines the details in her manifesto for Panmure House Perspectives.

      Friday 18 June 2021 Author: Professor Susan Krumdieck
    • Adam Smith and the Pin Factory

      Adam Smith’s description of the pin factory, with which he begins The Wealth of Nations, introduces the fundamental economic concept of the division of labour.

      Wednesday 16 June 2021 Author: Professor Sir John Kay
    • A Climate for Change, but How?

      The role of business in addressing climate change.

      Tuesday 6 April 2021 Author: Jane Diplock AO
    • The significance of carbon pricing

      Economic thinker Andrew Milligan takes us back to basics on the significance of carbon pricing.

      Monday 5 April 2021 Author: Andrew Milligan
    • How to get to Net-Zero

      COP26 is our opportunity to re-commit ourselves to the difficult but perfectly feasible challenges of taking our country to net zero

      Monday 29 March 2021 Author: Paul Hare
    • What can be added to the happiness of someone in good health, out of debt, and with a clear conscience? pondered Adam Smith

      Economic thinker Andrew Milligan points out that the present response to Covid-19 is not unique and that governments do increase National Debt to eye-watering levels in times of crisis.

      Monday 8 February 2021 Author: Andrew Milligan
    • The Hutton Series on Climate Change: The Response from the Financial Sector

      As a participant in the financial sector session, alongside senior figures from the investment and financial regulation worlds, it offered an opportunity to look back in order to look ahead.

      Monday 1 February 2021 Author: Kirsty Hamilton
    • Why the Privileged Leader must step up to solve a global challenge

      We face another pandemic in 2021 which now requires a moral ‘vaccine’.

      Friday 11 December 2020 Author: Kenny Kemp
    • An Architect’s Challenge: Interview with Panmure House architect, Jon Newey

      Jon Newey, a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, was selected to transform the derelict and forlorn Panmure House into an internationally acclaimed centre for Scotland’s most famous economist Adam Smith.

      Monday 26 October 2020 Author: Kenny Kemp
    • Adaptation for Future Resilience

      Humanity is a juggernaut on a collision course with the hard limits of nature

      Friday 2 October 2020 Author: Professor Sir Ian Boyd
    • Henry and Adam: A deep and special friendship

      A retrospective look at the relationship between the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith by Professor Benny Higgins, chairman of the Buccleuch Estates.

      Thursday 1 October 2020 Author: Benny Higgins
    • The Children’s Champion: Young People to the Fore

      Thirty Years Ago, in September 1990, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) came into force.

      Thursday 3 September 2020
    • OBITUARY: A champion of Panmure House restoration

      This obituary appeared in The Times newspaper in November 2019.

      Thursday 13 August 2020 Author: Neil Kay
    • Orwell & Smith

      Two outstanding writers of their generations shared a similar and critical fate, the inaugural Inspirational Alba address in Panmure House heard in Edinburgh, in early 2020, before the Covid-19 lockdown.

      Thursday 13 August 2020 Author: Kenny Kemp
    • Banking's Journey from Virtue to Vice

      Award-winning author and writer Ian Fraser sets out his views of how and why the Scottish banking industry, much admired by Adam Smith, have fallen from grace.

      Tuesday 11 August 2020 Author: Ian Fraser
    • A road map for a better future

      Distinguished global economist and writer, and former Management Editor of The Economist, Frances Cairncross has been in the vanguard of thinkers interpreting and making sense of our chaotic and contradictory world. Dr Cairncross is also Chair of Heriot-Watt University Court, where she helps guide the institution’s future. She talks with Panmure House Perspectives Writer Kenny Kemp.

      Tuesday 29 May 2018 Author: Kenny Kemp
    • Home at last: a professor’s journey with Adam Smith

      The regeneration of Panmure House, Adam Smith’s final home, is now nearing completion. Panmure House Perspectives met with Professor Keith Lumsden, former director of Edinburgh Business School and the driving force behind the original project. He speaks with chief writer Kenny Kemp.

      Thursday 17 May 2018 Author: Kenny Kemp
    • Tackling the crime of our time

      Dr Steve Johnson reviews a serious issue that is endemic in our business world: fraud. So what motivates those who steal from their employers and what can be done to halt this alarming global trend? He speaks to Kenny Kemp about his doctoral research inside a Southeast Asian non-governmental organisation.

      Monday 14 May 2018 Author: Kenny Kemp
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