Exploring how governments, regulators, and businesses shape markets and industries.

Taxes, monetary policy, income inequality, fiscal policy, elections, healthcare, energy…Smith Soc taps into multiple networks to bring experts and thought leaders, executives and politicians, together with our members to enlighten and connect.

The Adam Smith Society is committed to assisting our members in understanding the ways in which the current marketplace and all sectors of business are affected by public policy at all levels of government. We explore how regulation, tax policy, fiscal policy, and monetary policy influence the immediate and longterm environments for business. We focus on a variety of sectors: finance, technology, energy, heatlhcare, nonprofits, and education, among others. We are also committed to facilitating in-depth discussion of contemporary poltics and the political process, at all levels, with an eye towards effects on business and the economic system.

We connect with a variety of networks in order to present speakers, and other programs, to our chapters in order to provide members with exclusive and valuable perspectives on politics and policy. We have truned to journalists, academics, and commentators, such as ABC News' Matt Dowd, CNBC's Joe Kernen, Fox's John Stossel, Kate Bechelder of the Wall Street Journal, William Kristol of the Weekly Standard, and Tom Bevan and Caitlin Huey-Burns of RealClear Politics.

Public officials are a part of our network of speakers and experts; among those we've welcomed are SEC Chariman Harvey Pitt, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, CEO and presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and Secretary of Labor nominee Andy Puzder. We also tap into business leaders who are navigating these relationships between goverment and industry that shape modern capitalism. Recently, we've welcomed Thumbtack CEO Jonathan Swanson and General Counsel Katie Biber Chen, Bradley Tusk (consultant to Uber and Michael Bloomberg), Bain Capital founding partner Robert White, and venture capitalist Christina Bechhold.

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