Invisible Hand Seminar

Internal colloquium of the 895 Readings course

Saturday, September 14, 2013 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 2013

Saturday, Sept 14, 2013:

An internal colloquium of the 895 Readings course:

Harrison Searles discussed Brandon Lucas’s dissertation chapter on the Hayekian Narrative.

 

Austin Middleton discussed Lucas’s chapter on pursuing honest income as distributive justice.

 

Dan Klein discussed Mark Bonica’s dissertation on reputation in Adam Smith.

 

Saturday, October 5, 2013:

Will Fleming will present on a paper joint with Dan Klein, “The Origins of the Use of ‘Liberal’ in a Political Sense of the Term: Adam Smith and William Robertson”

 

Paul Mueller, “Adam Smith’s Views on Consumption and Happiness”

 

Saturday, October 12, 2013:

David Levy, presenting joint work with Sandra Peart, “F.A. Hayek and the ‘Individualists’”

 

Saturday, October 19, 2013:

An internal colloquium of the 895 Readings course:

We will treat the dissertations by Michael Clark and Christopher Martin.

 

Saturday, November 9, 2013:

Stephen Kunath, "Adam Smith and the Natural Rights Republic: Contrasting Enlightenment Views on the Political Order"

 

Austin Middleton, “A Taxonomy of Justice, based on Adam Smith”

 

Saturday, November 23, 2013:

Harrison Searles, “Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek on Humankind from Small Band to Commercial Society”

 

Stephen Kunath, “An Unnaturally Short Introduction to the Natural Law, Ethics, and Virtues as Taught by Thomas Aquinas”

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