'Apocalypse Next: The Economics of Global Catastrophic Risks'. By Stephen Davies (Institute of Economic Affairs). Vinson Centre Seminar Series (Spring term).
Recorded in Buckingham on 22 May 2024. (due to technical issues, the audio for part of the seminar was re-recorded a week after the seminar).
On the speaker:
Dr Steve Davies is the Senior Education Fellow at the IEA. Previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University in Virginia. He joined IHS from the UK where he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
A historian, he graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984. He has authored several books, including 'Empiricism and History' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and was co-editor with Nigel Ashford of 'The Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought' (Routledge, 1991). He discussed his latest book in our seminar: 'Apocalypse Next: Why another pandemic – or worse – is inevitable. And what we can do about it'.
