2006-2007
Third World Sweatshops: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?
Benjamin Powell
Assistant Professor of Economics
San Jose State University
October 2, 2006
Joshua Hall
Good for the Goose Bad for the Gander
Doctoral Student in Economics
West Virginia University
Sept. 29, 2006
2005-2006
What Hollywood Can Teach You about Economics
G. Dirk Mateer
Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Economics
Penn State University
March 9, 2006
5:30 p.m., Bridge of Learning
Why Democracy is Overrated
Michael C. Munger
Professor and Department Chair, Political Science
Duke University
November 7, 2005
5:30 p.m., Bridge of Learning
Listen to "Why Democracy is Overrated" in mp3 format (68 megs).
2004-2005
Brad Smith
Chairman, Federal Election Commission
Professor of Law (on leave), Capital University
Spring Semester
Also see an edited transcript of Mr. Smith's talk, John McCain's War on Political Speech, that appeared in the December 2005 issue of Reason magazine.
The Economics of Music
Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics
George Mason University
2003-2004
Bourgeois Virtue: Ethics in an Age of Capitalism
Deirdre McCloskey
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Professor of Economics, History, and English
University of Illinois at Chicago
Home page: http://tigger.uic.edu/~deirdre2/index.htm
The Endangered Species Act vs. Saving Endangered Species
Richard L. Stroup
Professor of Economics, Montana State University
Senior Associate, PERC-The Center for Free Market Environmentalism
Home page: http://www.perc.org/aboutperc/richardl_bio.html
2002-2003
The Morality of the Marketplace
Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
The Argument for Free Trade
Russell Roberts
John M. Olin Senior Fellow, Weidenbaum Center
Washington University
Russell Roberts' homepage: www.invisibleheart.com
2001-2002
Immigration Policy for the 21st Century
Richard K. Vedder
Distinguished Professor of Economics
Ohio University
Complete Paper (129 KB)
Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life
James Otteson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Alabama
Complete Paper (114 KB)
Accompanying PowerPoint Presentation (82 KB)
The Case for Drug Legalization:
Why the War on Drugs is dangerous
to children and other living creatures
Nick Gillespie
Editor, Reason
Transcript of Lecture (111 KB)
Accompanying PowerPoint Presentation (69 KB)
Business Virtues:
Six Propositions Provoked
in Part by P.T. Barnum
John Mueller
Professor and Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies
Ohio State University
September 17, 2001
Complete Paper (37.8 KB)
2000
The Future of Economic Freedom in Russia
Andrei Illarionov
Senior Economics Advisor to Russian President Putin
December 6, 2000
Transcript of Lecture (90 KB)
"Russian Advisor Can Teach U.S. Lessons about a Free Economy," by Steve Stephens, The Columbus Dispatch, December 11, 2000, B1. (113 KB)