DATE

PRESENTER

TOPIC

September 3

Lawrence H. White

Economics,
George Mason University

The Roaring Twenties and Austrian Business Cycle Theory

Tuesday, September 8

Virgil Storr

Social Theory,
Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Schutz on Objectivity and Spontaneous Orders

September 17

1:30-3:00pm

Omar Al-Ubaydli

Economics,
George Mason University

The Nature of Excess: Investigating Price Dynamics

Tuesday, September 22

Scott Sumner

Economics ,
Bentley University

The Great Danes: Cultural Values & Neoliberal Reforms*
(*Or: Is There Nothing Rotten in Denmark?)

Tuesday, September 29

PPE Workshop does not meet

PPE Workshop does not meet

Tuesday, October 6

Gene Callahan

Politics,
Cardiff University

Economics and Its Modes

October 15

Roger Koppl

Economics,
Farleigh Dickinson University

Organization Economics Explains Many Forensic Science Errors

Henry Manne

Professor Emeritus,
George Mason University School of Law

Entrepreneurship, Compensation, & the Corporation

Background reading:
Insider Trading: Hayek, Virtual Markets, and the Dog that Did Not Bark

Bankruptcy Law & Policy in the Twenty-first Century

November 5

James Stacey Taylor

Philosophy,
The College of New Jersey

November 12

Knowledge, Incentives, and Parental Rights: A Framework for Libertarian Family Policy

November 19

12:00-1:30pm

William S. Mounts

Economics,
Mercer University

The Nature of Banking, Information-Insensitive Balance Sheets, and Excess Reserves after the Bank Holiday of 1933

December 3

**1:00-2:30pm**

Neera Badhwar

Philosophy,
University of Oklahoma

Friendship & Commercial Societies

December 10

**1:00-2:30pm**

George Selgin

Economics,
University of Georgia

Strong Steam, Weak Patents, or, The Myths of Watt's Innovation-Blocking Monopoly, Exploded