Event Videos
Welcome to the video archive of the 2019 New Enlightenment Conference that took place in Edinburgh in July. Here you will find complete videos of every session from the two-day meeting, as well as shorter videos featuring curated excerpts and a set of interviews that were conducted during the conference.
Plenary 1 - John Kay on Capabilities and the Wealth of Nations
Plenary Session 1 features
John Kay, Fellow in Economics, St John's College, Oxford.
With comments by
Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley;
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism;
E.L. Rothschild LLC;
Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth University.
Plenary 2 - Niall Ferguson on Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Plenary Session 2 features
Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard.
With comments by
Harold James, Princeton University;
Orville Schell, Asia Society;
Peter Schwartz, Salesforce, Inc.
Closing Plenary - Reflections on the Conference and Actions Needed Now
Chair
David Teece, Professor in Global Business and Director, Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital, UC Berkeley
Panellists
Jay Barney, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah;
Niall Ferguson, Stanford University;
Ann Harrison, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley;
Harold James, Princeton University;
John Kay, St John’s College, Oxford;
Heather McGregor, Edinburgh Business School;
Orville Schell, Asia Society;
Weijian Shan, PAG Asia Capital.