Saturday, September 19, 2015 4:00 PM to 5:45 PM EDT
Buchanan Hall, D180
Invisible Hand Seminar
Led and organized by Daniel Klein (dklein@gmu.edu)
This seminar serves the Adam Smith program community, and gives a forum for graduate students to develop and present their work. Contact me to receive the paper. It is OK to attend without having read the paper. We go to dinner afterward.
Select Saturdays 4:00 - 5:45, Buchanan Hall D180
Fall 2015
This term we made a theme of esotericism.
Saturday Sept 19: Harrison Searles, GMU PhD student:
“Hume and Smith, Discreet Proto-Darwinists?”
Saturday Oct 3: Jason Briggeman, GMU PhD, Central Texas College:
“Searching for Justification of the Policy of Pre-Market Approval of Pharmaceuticals” (link; MR post)
Saturday Oct 17: Thomas W. Merrill, American University:
Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment (link to book)
Saturday Nov 7: Nelson Lund, George Mason University School of Law:
“Montesquieu, Judicial Degeneracy, and the U.S. Supreme Court” (link)
Saturday December 5: Pavel Kuchar, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, presenting his paper coauthored with Luis Sanchez-Mier:
“Classical Liberalism in Mexican Economic Thought”
