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Conference Program
THE PROGRAM
For Friday 29th July
Sessions |
Speakers |
9.30-11.00 |
Welcome from the Dean: Chris Doepel (2 minutes) Jeremy Shearmur: "Karl Popper's Idea of an Open Society: A challenge to, and from, Singapore" Rodney Tyres: "The Rise and Consequences of Economic Freedom in China". |
11.00-11.30 |
Coffee |
11.30-1.00 |
Patrick Jory: "The Monarchy as the Problem for an Open Society in Thailand" Peter Warr: "Thai Populism" |
1.00-2.00 |
Lunch |
2.00-3.30 |
Sean Turnell: "Least Free: The Economic Consequences of Fifty Years of Totalitarian Rule in Burma". William Coleman: "Yearning to Breathe Unfree: an Economist's Interpretation of Popular Despotism" |
3.30-4.00 |
Coffee |
4.00-5.00 |
Ronald E. Findlay: "Freedom and Development in Burma: A Personal View" |
5.00-6.30 |
Drinks: Staff club |