Saturday, January 31, 2015 4:00 PM to 5:45 PM EST
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
Spring 2015
Saturday Jan 31: Dan Klein, "Ten Thousand Commandments: Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments as a Critique of Interventionism"
Saturday Feb 7: Colin Doran, GMU Econ PhD student, "Adam Smith's Misrepresentation of David Hume: An Unsolved Mystery"
Saturday March 21: Gabriel Roth, retired from the World Bank, "Moving the Road Sector into the Market Economy"
Saturday April 4: Paul D. Mueller, as of Aug 2015 Assistant Professor at The King’s College in Manhattan, "Who Best Represents Impartiality? The Higher We Go, The More Partial Our Judgments"
Saturday April 18: Daniel Klein, Daniel Houser, and Gonzalo Schwarz (GMU alum and now at the Atlas Network), presenting their 2015 Rationality and Society paper also authored by Xiaofei Pan, “A Demand for Encompassment: A Hayekian Experimental Narrative about Political Psychology”
Also recommend as background for this seminar: (1) H. Allen Orr’s review of recent David Sloan Wilson book; (2) Video Hayek interview from 43:00-52:00.
