The Cobden Centre

The Cobden Centre is a British economics think tank founded by Member of Parliament Steve Baker and entrepreneur Toby Baxendale. It was developed by and consists of proponents of the Austrian School of Economics. Contributors include MP Steve Baker, Professor Kevin Dowd, Gordon Kerr of Cobden Partners, MEP Dr Syed Kamall (the head of the Conservative group in the European Parliament), former Cambridge University lecturer Jamie Whyte, MP Douglas Carswell, Ivo Mosley [1] and Keith Weiner. The editor is Max Rangeley.

Primary areas of interest
  • Business cycle theory[2]
  • Free market economic solutions [3]
  • Digital currencies such as Bitcoin
  • Free trade[4]

Business cycle theory

The Cobden Centre espouses the Austrian Theory of the business cycle, sometimes known as "Hayek-Mises business cycle theory" after its two most famous proponents, Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises.

Digital currencies

The Cobden Centre has several contributors who have expertise in digital currencies and blockchain technology. The Cobden Centre was intending to organise a four-day exhibition in the European Parliament in November 2015 showcasing digital currencies to the MEPs. It claimed it was to have been the first of its kind in any Parliament in the world and would involve demonstrations of Bitcoin ATMs and other related technologies.

The Cobden Centre is named after Richard Cobden, the 19th century classical liberal who campaigned against the Corn Laws and in favour of free trade and individual liberty. The Cobden Centre has a commercial arm called Cobden Partners, which specialises in advice on economics from an Austrian School perspective.[5][6]

gollark: It's almost 2 years!
gollark: I mean, there are much bigger ones, potatOS is "only" 4000 lines of code (excluding libraries and bundled programs).
gollark: Funlolz?
gollark: The new one is much better - it contains less code (if you ignore the giant cryptography libraries someone else wrote), can do partial updates, and can even cryptographically verify the updates to prevent tampering (probably).
gollark: The old updater thing actually used to just download files directly from pastebin every time it detected a change in one of them, but pastebin started being annoying and I decided I wanted stuff like version control.

References
  1. "Authors Ivo Mosley". Cobden centre.
  2. Jesús Huerta de Soto. "Economic Recessions, Banking Reform and the Future of Capitalism". cobdencentre.org.
  3. "Viewpoint: Why bailouts are bad". BBC News.
  4. The Christian Science Monitor. "Free trade vs. state aid". The Christian Science Monitor.
  5. "This Saturday – Cobden Partners presentations to OccupyLSX". occupylondon.org.uk.
  6. "Bitcoin History". Friday, 12 April 2019
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