Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics  

Department of Economics
George Mason University

-Spring 2006-

The Workshop this term will be devoted to TBA. All lectures will be held on Mondays, 2:00 - 3:15 unless otherwise noted.

Date	Time & Location	Presenter	Topic
January 23	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Michael Hechter Sociology Arizona State University	Alien Rule
February 2	2:00-3:30 Mercatus	Daniel Chen Economics University of Chicago	Political Economy of Beliefs
February 10	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Robert Frank Economics Cornell University	Are Positional Externalities Different From Other Externalities?
February 13	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	David Harper Economics New York University	Economic Pathways to Numeracy
February 20	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Dan Klein and Pete Boettke Economics George Mason University	Is It Time to Retire the Label "Austrian Economics?" Klein vs Boettke
February 27	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Henri LePage EU Commission France	The European Union
March 6	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Sanford Ikeda Economics Suny-Purchase	Is It Rational to Trust?
March 20	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Thomas C. Leonard Economics Princeton	Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
March 27	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus
April 5	12-2:30pm Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Arjo Klamer
April 6	2:00-3:30 Mercatus Board Room (joint with CESR)	Roger Finke Sociology Pennsylvania State University	Religious Freedom, Persecution, and Violence: New Findings from the of Religion Data Archives Indexes
April 10	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Perry Mehrling Economics Columbia University	The Development of Macroeconomics and the Revolution in Finance
April 17	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	William Trumbull Economics West Virginia University	Comparing Appes
April 24	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Art Diamond Economics University of Nebraska	The Relative Success of Private Funders and Government Funders in Funding Important Science
May 1	2:00-3:30 Rm. 318 Enterprise Hall Fairfax Campus	Meir Kohn Economics Dartmouth University	The Impact of Government on Economic Development and Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe