Replicating the age of invention
Dr Madsen Pirie is joined by Anton Howes as they explore the mentality of inventors and innovators. Not a technique, skill, or special understanding but a frame of mind: innovators seeing room for improvement where others see none. Together they will explain how this mentality can be received by anyone, and it can be applied to any field – anything, after all, can be better.
Anton's first book Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation, is out now from Princeton University Press. It tells the story of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce - essentially, Britain's national improvement agency, in any and every way imaginable. In it, he reveals a hidden history of three centuries of social reform, from eighteenth-century coffee houses, to the schemes of Victorian utilitarian reformers, the early environmentalists of the mid-twentieth century, and much more. Stopping along the way to pick up thinkers such as Adam Smith himself, Edmund Burke and Karl Marx.
Panellists:
- Anton Howes is the author of Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation, historian-in-residence at the Royal Society of Arts, and was previously an economic history lecturer at King's College London.
- Dr Madsen Pirie is the co-founder and President of the Adam Smith Institute, a UK neoliberal think tank which has been in operation since 1978.
Details:
Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The webinar will begin at 6.00pm, with an audience Q&A session taking place at approximately 6:45pm. The webinar will conclude at 7:00pm.
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