DATE

PRESENTER

TOPIC

August 29

Tyler Cowen

Economics

George Mason University

How the Outside World Shapes Politics

September 12

Robert Axtell

Economics

Brookings Institution

Economies as Complex Adaptive Systems: Interacting Agent Models, From Markets to Macro

September 19

Peter Leeson

Economics

West Virginia University

Scientism Standing in the Way of Science

(co-authored with Gene Callahan)

October 3

Steve Ziliak

Economics

Roosevelt University

Size Matters: How Some Sciences Lost Interest in Magnitude, and What to Do About It

(co-authored with Deirdre McCloskey)

October 17

Paul Lewis

Economics

Cambridge University

Ludwig Lachmann from a Critical Realist Perspective

October 24

Antonio Callari

Economics

Franklin & Marshall College

The Economy of a Scandal and the Scandal of Economics

October 31

Richard Swedberg

Sociology

Cornell University

The Toolkit of Economic Sociology

November 7

Daniel Hausman

Philosophy

University of Wisconsin-- Madison

Social Scientific Naturalism

November 14

Steve Gudeman

Anthropology

University of Minnesota

Economy's Tensions

November 28

Sahar Akhtar

Philosophy

Duke University

TBA

December 5

Dan Klein

Economics

George Mason University

A Plea for Economist Who Value Liberty: Assist the Everyman