Past Public Lectures

Hayek Lecture Series: "Free Market Liberalism is Humane," Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago

Public Lecture

Thursday, February 22, 2018

5:00pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

Deirdre McCloskey taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2000 to 2015 in economics, history, English, and communication. A well-known economist and historian and rhetorician, she has written 17 books and around 400 scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistical theory to transgender advocacy and the ethics of the bourgeois virtues. She is known as a “conservative” economist, Chicago-School style (she taught in the Economics Department there from 1968 to 1980, and in History), but protests that “I’m a literary, quantitative,...

Hayek Lecture Series: "Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and the Origins of the Administrative State," Tim Leonard, Princeton University

Public Lecture

Thursday, January 25, 2018

5:00pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

Hayek Lecture Series: "Tomorrow 3.0: The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of the New Economy," Mike Munger, Duke University

Public Lecture

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

4:30 pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

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Hayek Lecture Series: "The Role of Intellectual Property in a Thriving Innovation Economy," Adam Mossoff, GMU

Public Lecture

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

4:30 pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

Adam Mossoff is a Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University

Founder and Co-Director of Academic Programs, Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP)

https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/mossoff_adam

Hayek Lecture Series: "Pharmaceutical Freedom," Jessica Flanigan, University of Richmond

Public Lecture

Monday, March 27, 2017

5:00pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

This public lecture is sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy, the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and the program in American Values and Institutions at Duke University.The series is supported by a grant from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation.

Hayek Lecture Series: "Are Young People Being Fleeced?" Loren Lomasky, University of Virginia

Public Lecture

Monday, March 6, 2017

5:00pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crisis, Anwar Shaikh, The New School for Social Research

Public Lecture

Friday, November 18, 2016

3:30pm

Location: Social Sciences 136

Hayek Lecture Series: "How two incompatible sacred values are driving conflict and confusion in American universities", Jonathan Haidt, NYU

Public Lecture

Thursday, October 6, 2016

3:00pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

Hayek Lecture Series: "Markets without Limits," Jason Brennan, Georgetown University

Public Lecture

Monday, September 19, 2016

3:00pm

Location: Social Sciences 136

Hayek Lecture Series: Why hasn't economic progress lowered work hours more? Tyler Cowen, George Mason University

Public Lecture

Monday, March 21, 2016

6:00pm

Location: Social Sciences 139

Hayek Lecture Series: Why hasn't economic progress lowered work hours more? Tyler Cowen, George Mason University