J. M. Kaplan Workshop in Politics, Philosophy and Economics

-Fall 2001-

 

The Kaplan Workshop meets every Friday, unless otherwise noted, from 2:00 to 3:30 in Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall.  Papers are distributed a week in advance and participants are expected to read the papers in advance.

 

DATE

presenter

title

August 31

Tyler Cowen

Economics

George Mason University

Entrepreneurship, Austrian Economics and the Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry

September 7

Barry Smith

Philosophy

SUNY- Buffalo

Capitalism and the Meaning of Life

September 14

NO SEMINAR

 

September 21

George Selgin

Economics

University of Georgia

No Problem: The Private Sector's Solution to Britain's Small Change Shortage, 1787-1797

September 28

Russell Hardin

Politics

New York University

Liberal Distrust

October 5

Deirdre McCloskey

Economics, History and English

University of Illinois, Chicago Circle

Bourgeois Virtue

October 12

NO SEMINAR

 

October 19

Sam Bostaph

Economics

University of Dallas

The Emptiness of Wieser's 'Natural Value’

October 26

Stuart Warner

Philosophy

Roosevelt University

Grounded in Nature: An Essay on Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

November 2

Samuel Hollander

Economics

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Economic Organization, Distribution and the Equality Issue: The Marx-Engles Perspective

November 8* (Thursday)

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Politics

Columbia University

Economic consequences of constitutions

November 13*(Tuesday)

Simone A. Wegge

Economics

City University of New York

Do migrant origins matter? Migrants vs. Stayers in Mid-19th Century Germany

November 30

Roderick Long

Philosophy

Auburn University

Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics and the Logic of Action: Praxeological Investigations

December 7

Mario Rizzo

Economics

New York University

The Slippery Slope and the Movement Away from Liberty