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

 

-Fall 2002-

 

DATE & TIME

PRESENTER

TOPIC

LOCATION

August 30

2:00-3:30

Todd Zywicki

Law School

George Mason University

“The Reciprocity Instinct: An Evolutionary Analysis of Promise-Keeping, Norms and Bankruptcy Law”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

September 6*

2:00-3:30

Clifford Zinnes

IRIS

University of Maryland

 


“Harnessing the Power of Incentives”


Mercatus Center, 4th Floor Board Room, Arlington 1

September 13*

2:00-3:30

 

Frederic Sautet

Economic Policy

New Zealand Treasury

 


“Economic Transformation, the Pretense of Knowledge, and the Process of Entrepreneurial Competition”


Mercatus Center, 4th Floor Board Room, Arlington 1

September 20

8:00-5:00

 

Conference in Memory of Don Lavoie

(1950-2001)

Mason Hall, Fairfax Campus

September 27

2:00-3:30

Kyle Swan

Department of Philosophy

College of Charleston

“Three Concepts of Political Liberty”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

October 4

2:00-3:30

Gene Callahan &

Roger Garrison

Economics

Ludwig von Mises Institute  and Auburn University

“Is the Dot-Com Boom and Bust Evidence for Austrian Business Cycle Theory?”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

October 11

2:00-3:30

Richard Swedberg

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

“The Case for an Economic Sociology of Law”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

October 22

(Tuesday)

2:00-3:30

David Schmidtz, Department of Philosophy

 University of Arizona

“Elements of Justice – Rawls and Nozick”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

October 25*

2:00-3:30

Simon Johnson

Sloan School of Business

MIT

“The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth”

Mercatus Center, 4th Floor Board Room, Arlington 1

November 5

(Tuesday)

2:00-3:30

Tyler Cowen

Economics

George Mason University

 

“Why is Government so Big?”

 

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

November 22

2:00-3:30

Malcolm Rutherford, Department of Economics

University of Victoria

“Who is Afraid of Arthur Burns?: NBER and the Foundations”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

December 6

2:00-3:30

Bruce Caldwell

Department of Economics

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

“Popper and Hayek: Who Influenced Whom?”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus

December 12

2:00-3:30

(Thursday)

Sylvia Nasar

Graduate School of Journalism

 Columbia University

“Grand Pursuit: 20th Century Economic Thinkers”

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall, Fairfax Campus