Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Fall 2011

Fridays 2:00-3:30pm unless otherwise noted at the Mercatus Center in Room 478, Founders Hall, Arlington Campus.

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DATE

PRESENTER

TOPIC

 

September 2

 

 

Chris Blattman

Politics,
Yale University

 

 

 

The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion

 

 

 

 

September 9

 

 

Philip Auerswald

Public Policy,
George Mason University

 

 

 

The Coming Prosperity

(email dcurrie@gmu.edu

to request paper)

 

 

September 16

 

 

David Schmidtz

Philosophy,
University of Arizona

 

 

Hayek against Justice

(email dcurrie@gmu.edu

to request paper)

 

Thursday, September 22

Buchanan House, Ffx

 

 

Lawrence H. White

Economics,
George Mason University

 

 

 

Introduction to F.A. Hayek, Essays in Capital and Interest in The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek

(email dcurrie@gmu.edu

to request paper)

 

 

Thursday, October 13

Buchanan House, Ffx

 

 

CANCELLED


 

 

CANCELLED

 

Thursday, October 20

Buchanan House, Ffx

 

David Friedman

Law,
Santa Clara University

 

Market Failure in the Market for Law

 

 

Thursday, October 27

Buchanan House, Ffx

 

Michael Reksulak

Economics,
Georgia Southern University

 

 

Reducing the Impact of Ethnic Tensions on Economic Growth - Economics or Political Institutions?

 

November 4

5:00-6:30pm

Founders Hall 125

 

Sylvia Nasar

Economic Journalism,
Columbia University

 

 

Celebration of the Scholarship of Don Lavoie

The Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

 

 

November 11

 

Geoff Sayre-McCord

Philosophy,
University of North Carolina

 

 

Evolution and Morality

 

November 18

(10:30-12:00pm)

 

Pierre Garrouste

Economics,
University of Nice

 

 

Written Feedback and Dictator's Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence

 

 

November 18

(2:00-3:30pm)

 

Ed Lopez

Economics,
San Jose State University

 

 

The Problem with the Hold Out Problem

(figures)

 

December 9

 

Scott Cunningham

Economics,
Baylor University

 

 

Monopolistic competition with product differentiation in prostitution markets:
explaining the returns to BMI