James Buchanan and Vernon Smith Seminar

Dr. Charles Manski, Northwestern University

Thursday, March 19, 2026 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, George's (third floor)

Social Planning under Uncertainty

The George Mason Department of Economics invites the university community to join us for the James Buchanan and Vernon Smith Seminar presented by Dr. Charles Manski, Board of Trustees Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.

This seminar series is designed to appeal to a broad audience and is named to honor the Department's two Nobel Laureates and to recognize scholars who have made outstanding contributions to economics. 

 

Charles F. Manski is a leading figure in econometrics and applied microeconomics whose work centers on how to approach public policy when evidence is limited or ambiguous. He pioneered partial identification (drawing reliable policy conclusions without a single pinpointed “truth”), developed the maximum score estimator for discrete choice, clarified peer effects via the reflection problem (showing how to separate influence from sorting or shared environments), and advanced expectations measurement by eliciting people’s probability beliefs in surveys. His books include Identification for Prediction and Decision and Public Policy in an Uncertain World, and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy.     

Please join us for this presentation and the reception to follow.

Date:  Thursday, March 29, 2026

Presentation:  5:00 - 6:30 pm

Reception:  6:30 - 7:30 pm 

For more information:  Contact Dr. Jonathan Schulz at jschulz4@gmu.edu.