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Public Lectures

Public Lectures

Fall 2022

Date, Location Speaker Topic

Mon, Sept 12
3:30 p.m.
Kirby B02

Gary A. Hoover
Tulane University

“Plagiarism in the Social Sciences”

Spring 2022

Date, Location Speaker Topic
Mon, April 11
4 p.m.
Kirby B02

Richard Maltsbarger
CEO Petvalu Holdings Ltd

“Applying Economics Through Each Step of a CEO’s Journey”

Fall 2021

Date, Location Speaker Topic

Wed, Nov 10
3:30 p.m.
Pugh Auditorium,
Benson Center

Sandy Darity
Duke University

“Understanding Wealth Inequality in America”

Tues, Nov 16
7 p.m.
Annenberg Auditorium,
Carswell 111

Marcus Witcher
University of Central Arkansas

“The Economics of the Great Depression”

Tues, Nov 16
3 p.m.
Kirby B02

Dale Folwell
NC State Treasurer

“$tate of the $tate”

Spring 2020

Date, Location Speaker Topic
February 19
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

Rachel Ferguson
Eudaimonia Institute

“Black Liberation in the Marketplace”
March 19
5 p.m.
Annenberg Forum
Carswell Hall

Todd Sandler
University of Texas, Dallas

POSTPONED “Common Myths about Terrorism”

 Fall 2019

Date, Location Speaker Topic
September 23
4 p.m.
Kirby B02

Dean Stansel
O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom

“Economic Freedom: What It Is and Why It Matters”
November 25
4 p.m.
Kirby B02

Lawrence H. White
George Mason University

“Gold vs. Bitcoin”

 Spring 2019

Date, Location Speaker Topic
March 19
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

John Matsusaka
University of Southern California

“Democracy Adrift: Populism, Direct Democracy, and the Quest for Self-Government”
March 28
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

Siying Liu
Wake Forest University

“Competition in Healthcare Markets”

 Fall 2018

Date, Location Speaker Topic
October 4
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Harvard Business School

“The Demise of the American Newspaper – Do We Care?”
October 9
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

Thad Calabrese, Craig Depken II, Adam Hoffer, and Todd Nesbit

“Taxes, Paternalism and Fiscal Discrimination: A Panel Discussion”

October 18
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

Thayer Morrill
NC State University

“How Math Saves Lives and Solves Social Injustice”  

November 14
4 p.m.
Kirby B02

Mona Ahmadiani
WFU Eudamonia Institute

“Measuring Human Flourishing”

Spring 2018

Date, Location

Speaker Topic
March 14
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
Bruce Benson
Appalachian State University
 “Criminal Injustice: The System Wide Failure of Criminal Law and Its Enforcement”
March 15
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
Jeremy Jackson
North Dakota State University
“Friend or Foe: Economic Liberalism and Its Social Consequences”
March 26
5 p.m.
Kirby B02
David Wilcox
Director of Research Division of Fed Board of Govenors
“A Day in the Life of the Economics Division at the Fed: Four Examples of What We Do”

April 23
4 p.m.
Kirby B02

Jim Lavoie
Rite Solutions 
“A Human’s Motivation to Think”

 Fall 2017

Date, Location Speaker Topic
October 26
4 p.m.
Kirby B02

Stephen Holland
UNC Greensboro

“Are Electric Cars Good for the Environment?”
November 2
4 p.m.
Kirby B02

F. Andrew Hanssen
Clemson

“The Democratic Transition: Lessons from Ancient Greece”
November 13
4 p.m.
Kirby B02 (venue subject to change)

Richard Salsman
Duke

“The Limits of Public Debt”

  Spring 2017

Date, Location

Speaker Topic
February 21
5 p.m.
Kirby B02
Robert A. Baade
Lake Forest College
“The Economic Impact of Commercial Sport: What’s the Score?”
 March 2
4 p.m.
Broyhill Auditorium,
Farrell Hall
Craig Richardson
Winston-Salem State University 
 “Is This North Carolina or Zimbabwe? How Property Rights in North Carolina Deteriorated to the Level of a Third-World Country”

      Fall 2016

Date, Location Speaker Topic
September 28
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

Andreas Freytag
Friedrich-Schiller University and University of Stellenbosch

“Developing Countries in Global Value Chains”
October 10
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

Jeremy Beer
American Philanthropic

“Why Do We Give? What’s Good and Bad About American Philanthropy”
November 7
5 p.m.
Kirby B02

John Graham
Indiana’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs

“The Future of Electric Cars in the U.S. and Abroad”

 

 

      Spring 2016

Date, Location

Speaker Topic
February 23
5 p.m.
Kirby B02
Bruce Blonigen
University of Oregon
“The Surprising Factors that Influence People’s Preferences for Limits on International Trade”

March 22
5 p.m.
Annenberg Forum 111 Carswell Hall

David C. Rose
University of Missouri – St. Louis
“Social Capital, Trust, and the Theory of Public Goods”

April 4
5 p.m.
Kirby Hall B02

Jeffrey Milyo
University of Missouri
“Dirty Secrets: The Real Truth about Money in American Politics”

April 18
4 p.m.
Annenberg Forum
111 Carswell Hall

Michael C. Munger
Duke University

“Lifeboat  Minds in a Walmart World: Are Emotional Responses to Markets Atavistic?”

       Fall 2015

Date, Location Speaker Topic
November 5 
5.30 p.m. 
Annenberg Forum
(111 Carswell Hall)

Alex Tabarrok
George Mason
University

“What is Democracy Good For?”

       Spring 2015

Date, Location

Speaker Topic
February 19
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
Stefan Szymanski
University of Michigan
“Money and Soccer – Explaining the Global Economics
of the Game”
March 23
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
David C. Rose
University of Missouri-St
Louis
“Why Culture Matters Most”
April 16
Annenberg,
Carswell Hall
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago
“Regulation and Financial Crises”

        Fall 2014

Date, Location

Speaker Topic
October 30
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
P. J. Hill
Property & Environment
Research Center, Montana
“The Not so Wild, Wild West”
November 19
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
Ed Lopez
Western Carolina
“Fashion Copyright? A New Defense of Design Copying”

       Spring 2014

Date, Location

Speaker Topic
February 5
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
Ben Powell
Texas Tech
“Why Sweatshops are Good for the Poor”
March 21
3 p.m.
Kirby B02
Joseph Harrington
University of Pennsylvania
“Collusion: The Hidden Evil in the Marketplace. Are we
Winning the Fight Against Cartels?” 
April 8
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
Dino Falaschetti
Mercatus,
George Mason University
“Finance, Democracy and Economic Performance”
April 24
4 p.m.
Kirby B02
Ronald Ehrenberg
Cornell University
“The Golden Age of Higher Education is Over”

 

About Us

Wake Forest Economics Department

225 Kirby Hall (Calloway Center)

Wake Forest University

Box 7505

Winston-Salem, NC 27109 USA

336 758 5334

 

Academic Coordinator

Joanna Hamilton

hamiltjk@wfu.edu

 

Department Chair

Amanda Griffith

griffial@wfu.edu

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