On October 19, the Adam Smith Society sponsored a debate at Dallas’s famed Old Parkland on the resolution, “A universal basic income is necessary in the age of automation.” The debate featured two of the most prominent voices on the idea of UBI: Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute and Jared Bernstein from the
Smith Soc_NYC came together on Monday, September 11th to hear former world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. In his newest book, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins, Garry reflect on his infamous chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue and shares his thoughts on what we can learn in this new era of technological change.
The Adam Smith Society is pleased to announce the founding of our newsest chapter, at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management. The BYU Marriott Chapter joins Smith Soc for the 2017-18 academic year.
On Tuesday August 1st, the Smith Soc summer receptions series came to a conclusion as Smith Soc Chicago hosted a panel discussion about the ongoing Illinois budget crisis.
Smith Soc hosted its annual Leadership Retreat at a private club near New York City’s Central Park this Saturday July 29. With chapter leaders from nearly every student chapter as well as the leaders of a couple of prospective new chapters hoping to join us this year, energy end enthusiasm for the coming year of free market market-oriented on-campus programming was high.
On July 26, Smith Soc professional members from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area gathered for a salon dinner with MI Senior Fellow Robert Bryce.
The Boston Professional Chapter of Smith Soc hosted its summer reception for 2017 on Wednesday July 26. In addition to a reception for members and guests, the centerpiece of the event was a panel discussion about current issues in national security, "National Security Crisis? Facts vs. "Fake News."
On Tuesday evening, July 25th, Smith Soc's NYC Professional Chapter hosted a panel discussion that considered the future of New York's tech sector in at a venue on the west side of Midtown Manhattan.