Please join the Center for Intellectual Freedom in welcoming Dr. Samuel Gregg to the University of Iowa for our 3rd America 250 event this semester!

Dr. Gregg will give a lecture titled " Economist & Revolutionary: Adam Smith in 1776"

In 1776, the American colonies declared their independence, and Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of both milestones, Dr. Samuel Gregg examines Smith’s revolutionary ideas and their lasting impact on economics, free society, and the American experiment.

Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has a D.Phil. in moral philosophy and political economy from Oxford University, and an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, monetary theory and policy, and natural law theory. He is the author of seventeen books, including On Ordered Liberty (2003), The Commercial Society (2007), Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (2010); Becoming Europe(2013); Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization (2019); The Essential Natural Law (2021); and The Next American Economy: Nation, State and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022). Two of his books have been short-listed for Conservative Book of the Year, and one of his books was short-listed for the 2023 Hayek Prize. Many of his books and over 700 articles and opinion pieces have been translated into a variety of languages.