Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Spring 2010

Thursdays 1:30-3:00pm unless otherwise noted in 318 Enterprise Hall

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DATE

PRESENTER

TOPIC

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 2

4:00-5:30pm

Hazel Hall Room 121
GMU's Arlington Campus

 

 

Elinor Ostrom

Nobel Laureate, 2009
Co-director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

Peter Boettke

Vice President for Research,
Mercatus Center

Paul Dragos Aligica

Senior Research Fellow,
Mercatus Center

 

 

 

 

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School

 

To register or for additional information, please email Megan Mahan: mmahan@gmu.edu

 

February 11

 

 

Gerald Gaus


Philosophy,
University of Arizona

 

 

The Property Equilibrium in a Liberal Social Order
(or How to Correct Our Moral Vision)

 

February 18

 

 

Tara Smith


Philosophy,
University of Texas at Austin

 

 

Value-Neutrality & the Rule of Law

 

February 25

 

 

Brian Simpson


Economics,
National University

 

 

Keynes’s Theory of Depression: A Critique

 

Tuesday, March 2

 

 

Bruce Caldwell


Economics,
Duke University

 

 

Ten (Mostly) Austrian Insights for These Trying Times

 

Tuesday, March 23

 

 

Steven Landsburg

Economics,
University of Rochester


 

 

The Big Questions

 

April 1

 

Jonathan Jacobs


Philosophy,
Colgate University

 

 

Contingency, Liberty, and Patience as a Political Virtue: Smith's Crucial Insight

 

April 8

 

David Harper

Economics,
New York University



 

 

The Anatomy of Emergence, with a Focus upon Capital Formation

 

April 15

 

Ryan Oprea


Economics,
University of California Santa Cruz

 

 

Extreme Walrasian Dynamics: The Gale Example in the Lab

Additional Reading: Why Austrians Should Quit Worrying and Learn to Love the Lab

 

Tuesday, April 20

 

 

David Beckworth

Economics,
Texas State University

 

 

Where the Fed Goes Wrong: The "Productivity Gap" and Monetary Policy

 

Tuesday, April 27

 

Steven Medema

Economics,
University of Colorado at Denver

 

 

Economists and the Analysis of Government Failure: How Cambridge Did and Did
Not Anticipate Chicago and Virginia

Background Reading: Public Choice & the Notion of Creative Communities

 

Tuesday, May 4

 

 

Rob Axtell

Center for Social Complexity,
George Mason University

 

 

A General Mathematical Representation of Behavioral and Aggregate Discounting