Economic Liberty Lecture Series -- Dan Smith

Join the GMU Economics Society and Future of Freedom Foundation in welcoming economist, professor, and author Dan Smith lecture on "A Tale of Two Disaster-Stricken Communities: Joplin and Tuscaloosa."

When: Monday November 5th
Where: Sub II Rooms 3-5
5:30 - Free Pizza ($0)
6:00 - Lecture with Q&A
8:00 - Social Hour at Brion's Grille

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 SPEAKER: Dan Smith
"A Tale of Two Disaster-Stricken Communities: Joplin and Tuscaloosa"

Daniel J. Smith is an Assistant Professor at the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University in 2011. Dr. Smith's research primarily focuses on studying the institutions that emerge to foster economic and social cooperation between socially distant, or even hostile, groups. His dissertation, which won the Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Prize, explored the institutions that emerged to facilitate trade between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain, resulting in a period of relative peace and prosperity. He has also detailed how similar institutions have emerged in other diverse contexts, such as disaster-stricken communities, among competitors in the Tour de France, and even among brawling soccer hooligans in England. Dr. Smith has also published opinion editorials in such prominent outlets as the Wall Street Journal, the Birmingham News, and the Jefferson City News Tribune, and has been interviewed on numerous radio and television programs across the nation.

Law and Economics Seminar -- Session 2

Join the Economics Society tonight for the Second Session of our Law and Economics Seminar. We will be continuing the discussion on the Lochner v New York case. Hope to see you there!

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Caplan-Pearlstein Debate

Join the Economics Society this week as George Mason's own Bryan Caplan debates Steven Pearlstein on the topic of government withdrawal from an active role in subsidizing higher education.

When: Wednesday, October 24 at 6:30
Where: Johnson Center Cinema

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Discussion Group: The Role of Economists

There will be no reading for this week. We are going to discuss the role of economists in the political sphere. Economists have some special knowledge that is useful to voters and policy makers, but how should this knowledge be shared? Think about these three possible roles for economists:

Prescriptive advice - suggesting policies for maximizing utility, in addition to or in opposition of current policy goals.

Efficiency experts - not judging policy goals, but offering economics as a way of more efficiently achieving those goals.

Critics - "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design" -Friedrich Hayek

Do you think one of these roles is better than others? Can you imagine a different role for economists to play? Think about what roles popular economists have been playing in the most recent election.

As always the discussion group will be held in Enterprise 318.

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Economics Society Fundraiser at Panda Express

Supply your demand for Chinese food and help Econ Society too! Come out to GMU Economics Society's fundraiser Thursday 18th between Noon and 3pm and have 20% of your purchase fund future Economics Society events! You will need our flyer so that we can get the contribution so don't forget it! 

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"Classical Liberalism as a Form of Progressivism"

Join the GMU Economics Society and Future of Freedom Foundation  in welcoming economist, professor, and author Steven Horwitz lecture on "Classical Liberalism as a Form of Progressivism!" 

Monday October 15th 
5:30 pm - *Free* Pizza ($0)
6:00 pm - Lecture with Q&A
8:00 pm - Social Hour at Brion's Grille 


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Biography

Steven Horwitz is Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He completed his MA and PhD in economics at George Mason University and received his A.B. in economics and philosophy from The University of Michigan. He is the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (Routledge, 2000) and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economics Order (Westview, 1992), and he has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and history, and macroeconomics. In addition to several dozen articles in numerous professional journals, he has also done nationally recognized public policy work on the role of the private sector during Hurricane Katrina for the Mercatus Center, where he is an Affiliated Senior Scholar. The author of numerous op-eds, Horwitz is a frequent guest on TV and radio programs, particularly on the Great Recession and monetary policy. His current research is on the economics and social theory of the family, and he is at work on a book on classical liberalism and the family.

GRE Event

Join the Economics Society and Princeton Review for zero price pizza and a chance to learn how you can improve your GRE scores.

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