J. M. Kaplan Workshop in Politics, Philosophy and Economics

 

-Spring 2003-

 

Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall

2:00-3:30pm

 

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

January 27

Richard Ebeling

Economics

Hillsdale College

Ludwig von Mises as Applied Economist in Austria Between the Two Wars

February 7*

Timothy Frye

Political Science

Ohio State University

Constraining the Grabbing Hand: Credible Commitments and Property Rights in Russia

February 10

Charles Breeden

Economics

Marquette University

The Pluralist Liberalisms of James Buchanan and John Gray

February 17

 

 

 

February 28*

3:00-4:30

Andrei Shleifer

Economics

Harvard University

The New Comparative Economics

March 10

 

Joseph Salerno

Economics

Pace University

The Rebirth of Austrian Economics – In Light of Austrian Economics

March 17

 

 

 

March 24

James Otteson

Philosophy

University of Alabama

Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life

March 28*

 

Lotta Stern

Sociology

Swedish Institute for Social Research at the University of Stockholm

The Voluntary Provision of Snowmobile Trails on Private Land in Sweden

March 31

 

 

 

April 14

 

Hiroyuki Okon

Economics

Kokugakuin University

On the Complexity of Economic Systems: An Austrian Perspective

April 25*

 

Jeffrey Hummel

Economic History

San Jose State University

Why the North Should Have Seceded from the South? An
Estimate of Slavery's Enforcement Costs

April 28

 

Steve Medema

Economics

University of Colorado at Denver

 

The Legal-Economic Tangle: Legal Realism, Institutionalism and Chicago Law and Economics

May 5

 

Brad Birzer

History

Hillsdale College

Tolkein and Western Civilization

 

 

* These seminars will be held on Fridays at the Arlington Campus, Mercatus Center, Rm. 431C from 2:00-3:30pm.