Workshop in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics- Fall 2006

Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Spring 2008

Thursdays 1:00-2:30pm unless otherwise noted in 318 Enterprise Hall

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DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
Tuesday, January 29	E. Glen Weyl Economics Princeton University	Whose rights?: A critique of individual agency as the basis of rights
February 7	Dan Klein Economics George Mason University	Coordination in the history of economics
February 14	Jared Rubin Economics California State University at Fullerton	Printing and interest restrictions in Islam and Christianity
February 21	Bruce Caldwell Economics University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Studies on the abuse and decline of reason
February 28	John Murray Economics University of Toledo	Identifying, separating and managing asymmetric information
March 6	Jon Klick Law Columbia University	The regulation of contracts: The case for franchising
March 20	Pierre Garrouste Economics University of Paris I	The emergence and evolution of institutions: the complementary approaches of Carl Menger and Thorstein Veblen
March 27	Agnes Festre Economics University of Nice	Menger and Wieser and the dynamics of the emergence of money
April 3 2:00-3:30pm	Robert Nelson Public Policy University of Maryland	Scholasticism vs. pietism: The battle for the soul of economics
April 10	Russ Roberts Economics George Mason University	A graphical approach to teaching Hayek on knowledge * There is no paper for this presentation Note:* This session will be particularly useful for teachers of Intermediate Microeconomics and Principles of Economics. This will be a working session on how to integrate Hayekian ideas into Intermediate Micro and Principles of Econ courses.
April 17	Robin Douhan Uppsala University and Research Institute of Industrial Economics	The political economy of entrepreneurship
April 24	Karen Clay Economics Carnegie Mellon University	The effect of uncertain property rights on agricultural production
May 1	Samuel Fleischaker Philosophy University of Illinois at Chicago & Dan Klein Economics George Mason University	What Would Adam Smith Think of the Modern Welfare State?* *Contact Peter Lipsey for copies of the readings for this session
May 8	Dan Houser Economics George Mason University	Human altruism explains participation in democratic elections