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    2019 Conference

    July, Edinburgh

    Event Videos

    Welcome to the video archive of the 2019 New Enlightenment Conference that took place in Edinburgh in July. Here you will find complete videos of every session from the two-day meeting, as well as shorter videos featuring curated excerpts and a set of interviews that were conducted during the conference.

    THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT: MAJOR THEMES

    Plenary 1 - John Kay on Capabilities and the Wealth of Nations

    Plenary Session 1 features

    John Kay, Fellow in Economics, St John's College, Oxford.

    With comments by

    Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley;

    Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism;

    E.L. Rothschild LLC;

    Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth University.

    Plenary 2 - Niall Ferguson on Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

    Plenary Session 2 features

    Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard.

    With comments by 

    Harold James, Princeton University;

    Orville Schell, Asia Society;

    Peter Schwartz, Salesforce, Inc.

    Closing Plenary - Reflections on the Conference and Actions Needed Now

    Chair

    David Teece, Professor in Global Business and Director, Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital, UC Berkeley

    Panellists

    Jay Barney, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah;

    Niall Ferguson, Stanford University;

    Ann Harrison, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley;

    Harold James, Princeton University;

    John Kay, St John’s College, Oxford;

    Heather McGregor, Edinburgh Business School;

    Orville Schell, Asia Society;

    Weijian Shan, PAG Asia Capital.

    Breakout Sessions

    Distinguished guests from the New Enlightenment Conference gather in Adam Smith's Reading Room and the Balmoral to discuss economy and society's biggest questions.
    View the Sessions Here
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