Public Lectures

Public Lectures

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”