Invisible Hand Seminar

The Theory of property in the Scottish Enlightenment

Saturday, November 8, 2014 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

FALL 2014

Saturday November 8: John Robinson, GMU Econ PhD student, will present his dissertation in progress, on the theory of property in the Scottish Enlightenment. A main theme is the clear centrality of the exclusion view of property, as opposed to the bundle-of-rights view.

 

Saturday November 22: Daniel Klein, GMU Econ, “Three Frank Questions to Discipline Your Theorizing,” a chapter in Theorizing in the Social Sciences: The Context of Discovery (Stanford University Press, 2014), edited by Richard Swedberg.

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