Symposium Overview

Honouring and building on this legacy, the Edinburgh Business School is establishing a new research programme in cognitive economics. To inaugurate this significant milestone, we’re organising a two-day symposium, kindly supported by Walter Scott & Partners. We are privileged to be able to host the event in Panmure House, the last and only remaining residence of Smith, where he wrote the final editions of his famous works and invited other luminaries for dinner discussions.

With this inspiring background, an eclectic group of multidisciplinary academics, investors and policymakers have been invited to the symposium to pursue new enlightenment in economics.

Schedule

• Eight sessions over two days
• Each session partners two speakers and, led by the discussant and the chair, culminates in a Q&A with the audience
• Lunch and two coffee breaks
• Symposium dinner

Please see the agenda here.

Our Speakers

• Vivienne Brown (Professor of Philosophy & Intellectual History; The Open University).
• Nick Chater (Professor of Behavioural Science; University of Warwick).
• Emanuel Derman (Professor of Financial Engineering; Columbia University).
• Sheila Dow (Professor of Economics; University of Stirling)
• Karl Friston (Professor of Neuroscience; UCL)
• Gerd Gigerenzer (Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy; University of Potsdam).
• Dylan Grice (Co-founder of investment firm Calderwood Capital)
• John Kay (Economist and Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford University)
• Anatole Kaletsky (Co-founder and Chairman of investment firm GaveKal)
• Scott Kelso (Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences; Florida Atlantic University)
• Julian Kiverstein (Professor of Neurophilosophy; University of Amsterdam).
• Howard Marks (Co-founder and co-chairman of investment firm Oaktree Capital Management).
• Geoff Mulgan (Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation; University College London).
• Søren Overgaard (Professor of Philosophy; University of Copenhagen).
• Duncan Pritchard (Professor of Philosophy; UC Irvine).
• Kiril Sokoloff (Chairman and Founder of investment firm 13D Research).
• Shannon Vallor (Professor in Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence; University of Edinburgh).