Saturday, September 17, 2011 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 2011
Saturday September 17:
Brandon Holmes, GMU MA student in Philosophy:
“Adam Smith on Education: A Critique of Andrew Skinner and Others”
Saturday October 1:
David Hedengren, GMU PhD student:
“Self-Selection in Life Insurance: Propitious or Adverse?”
Saturday October 15:
Christopher Martin, GMU doctoral student and John Marshall Visiting Research Fellow, University of Virginia:
“The Fortunes of Sympathy in Economics”
Saturday November 12:
John Robinson, GMU PhD student, and Daniel Klein: “Property: A Bundle of Rights” Along with thoughts on Richard Epstein’s and others’ defense of “bundle”
Saturday December 3:
Stephen Kunath, GMU PhD student: The The Thomistic-Aristotelean conception of the common good in light of Alasdair MacIntyre.
