David Conway

David Conway is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Westminster-based social policy think-tank Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society which he joined in 2004 and where he worked full-time as a senior research fellow for five years, after leaving academia following a thirty year career teaching Philosophy at various British universities.

Book Reviews27 October 14

A Vindication of Commercial Society

By David Conway

In the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith outlines a commercial society: When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a…

Economics9 January 13

A story of liberalism, illiberally told

By David Conway

The bibliographies of few books cite more Liberty Fund publications than does Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History from the Glorious Revolution to the First World War. It…

Economics28 October 12

What comes after the welfare state?

By David Conway

Young people today are being robbed … [of] their rights … freedom … dignity .. [and] futures … [by] the world-straddling engine of theft,…