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** The End of the Age of Entitlement: A Decade Later with The Hon. Joe Hockey
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Date: Monday, 23 October
Time: 6.00pm — 8.00pm
Location: 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB
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In April 2012, then-Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey, delivered a speech to the Institute of Economic Affairs in London entitled “The End of The Age of Entitlement ([link removed]) “. Hockey spoke about the unsustainable nature of universal entitlements that have been ignored for years.
The speech was judged one of the most important speeches by an Australian in the last 100 years.
Just over a decade later, Hockey is returning to the IEA to revisit this thesis. In the context of the ongoing global economic challenges, Hockey will discuss the future of our global economy and the role of governments in the wake of recent events.
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About Joe Hockey
The Hon. Joe Hockey served as Treasurer of Australia (2013-15) and Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America (2016-2020). He was a member of the Australian Parliament for over 20 years and was appointed to numerous Cabinet roles, including Minister for Workplace Relations, Minister for Human Services and Minister for Small Business and Tourism. He is now the Founding Partner & Global President of Bondi Partners, a strategic advisory firm with a presence in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom
** Transgender Ideology:
A threat to liberal values?
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Date: Tuesday, 25 June
Time: 18.30 – 20.30
Location: 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB
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The IEA will be hosting a panel debate on the motion, ‘Transgender Ideology: A threat to liberal values?’ Doors will open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start. Drinks will be served between 6:30 and the start of the debate.
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Debates surrounding gender identity have gained prominence in the last few years. Trans rights activists have argued that trans people have a right to be recognised as their preferred gender in both the private and public spheres and that the law should protect this right. Gender critical groups, however, claim that efforts to undermine single sex spaces put women’s safety at risk while attempts to police language on this issue constitute a threat freedom of speech. This event will seek to disentangle this debate by giving speakers from both sides the opportunity to present their case for whether transgender ideology is necessary outgrowth of liberal values or a threat to them.
Speakers:
* Peter Tatchell – Human rights campaigner and activist.
* Freda Wallace – Political commentator, freelance writer and host of the Gender Nebulous ([link removed]) podcast.
* Helen Joyce – Former finance editor at the Economist, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality and director of advocacy at Sex Matters.
* Marc Glendening – Head of cultural affairs at the IEA and author of the Transgender Ideology ([link removed]) report published by the IEA in August.
The panel will be chaired by Matthew Lesh Director of Public Policy and Communications at the IEA.
** IEA Book Club Event with Marian L Tupy
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Date: Thursday, 2nd November
Time: 12.00 – 14.00
Location: 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB
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The IEA Book Club will be hosting an upcoming event with Marian Tupy on his latest book, “Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet”. This event will take place on Thursday 2nd November from 12:00 – 14:00 at the IEA Westminster offices.
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About the book
Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued, “The world’s rapidly growing population is consuming the planet’s natural resources at an alarming rate . . . the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources . . . [a figure that] could rise to 2 planets by 2030.” But is that true?
After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something. To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population―a relationship that they call “superabundance.” On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true.
Why? More people produce more ideas, which lead to more inventions. People then test those inventions in the marketplace to separate the useful from the useless. At the end of that process of discovery, people are left with innovations that overcome shortages, spur economic growth, and raise standards of living. But large populations are not enough to sustain superabundance―just think of the poverty in China and India before their respective economic reforms. To innovate, people must be allowed to think, speak, publish, associate, and disagree. They must be allowed to save, invest, trade, and profit. In a word, they must be free.
About the author
Marian L. Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and co‐author of The Simon Project. He specializes in globalization and global well‐being, and politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa. His articles were published in the Financial Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The U.K. Spectator, Foreign Policy and various other outlets both in the United States and overseas. He appeared on BBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News, FOX Business and other channels. Tupy received his BA in international relations and classics from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD in international relations from the University of St. Andrews in Great Britain. He is the co‐author of the recent book, Ten Global Trends that Every Smart Person Needs to Know: And Many Other Trends You Will Find Interesting.
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