Hayek Lecture 2016: Price Stability and Financial Stability without Central Banks

The 2016 Hayek Memorial Lecture, held on 8 June 2016 at Church House Conference Centre, hosted keynote speaker Professor George Selgin, who spoke on the subject "Price Stability and Financial Stability without Central Banks - lessons from the past for the future." Prof George Selgin is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary history, macroeconomic theory, and the history of monetary thought. --- This year's Hayek Lecture was hosted as part of our Paragon Initiative: the most comprehensive project ever undertaken by the IEA. This five year programme will provide a fundamental reassessment of what Government should – and shouldn’t – do. It will put every area of government activity under the microscope and analyse the failure of current policies. To learn more about the Paragon Initiative, click here: http://www.iea.org.uk/paragon