Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics  

Department of Economics
George Mason University

-Spring 2005-

The Workshop this term will be devoted to exploring questions associated with the reversal of fortunes in reform efforts and the challenges that globalization presents to efforts to achieve sustainable economic reforms in transition and developing economies. All lectures will be held on Mondays, 2:00 - 3:15 unless otherwise noted.

Date	Time & Location	Presenter	Topic
Tuesday, January 25	2:00-3:30 4th Floor Board Room, Mercatus Center, Arlington Campus	William Lewis McKinsey & Company	Why Bad Economic Policies Around the World?
Thursday, February 3	2:00-3:30 4th Floor Board Room, Mercatus Center, Arlington Campus	Mario Rizzo New York University	The Camel's Nose is in the Tent
Thursday, February 10	2:00-3:30 4th Floor Board Room, Mercatus Center, Arlington Campus	Laurence Kotlikoff Boston University	The Coming Generational Storm
Monday, February 14	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	William Easterly New York University	The Lamentable Comeback of Central Planning in Development Economics
Monday, February 21	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Timur Kuran University of Southern California	Why the Islamic Middle East Did Not Generate an Indigenous Corporate Law
Monday, February 28	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University	The Evolution of Precedent
Monday, March 7	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Stephan Voigt Kassel University (Germany)	The Economic Effects of Judicial Accountability
Tuesday, March 22	2:00-3:30 4th Floor Board Room, Mercatus Center, Arlington Campus	Pascal Salin University of Paris (France)	Globalization and Trade
Monday, March 28	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Stephen E. Margolis North Carolina State University	Path Dependence and Public Policy: Lessons from Economics
Monday, April 11	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	James M Buchanan George Mason University	Anti-Globalization, Democracy, and the Logic of Trade
Monday, April 18	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Price Fishback University of Arizona	Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression
Monday, April 25	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Richard Wagner George Mason University	Economic Retrogression Within a Theory of Emergent Order
Thursday, May 5	2:00-3:30 4th Floor Board Room, Mercatus Center, Arlington Campus	Israel Kirzner	A Revisionist Interpretation of Competition Theory
Monday, May 9	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Bryce Wilkinson Capital Economics ( New Zealand)	New Zealand's Economic Freedom, Growth & Fiscal Rules