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THE SMITH CENTER | for Private Enterprise Studies |
Link to past Smith Center Speakers videos
Link to locations of Smith Center events
Note: All speaker events will be held at 2pm.
Fall of 2012 to Spring of 2013
October 10, 2012 - 2pm
Charles Baird, California State University, East Bay
“American Unionism and Freedom of Association”
Speaker Information at: www.charlesbaird.info
Event Located in Old UU 102
November 14, 2012 - 2pm
Randal O'Toole, Cato Institute
Gridlock: Why We're Stuck In Traffic and What to Do About It
Speaker Information at: http://www.cato.org/people/randal-otoole
Event Located in Old UU 311
December 5, 2012 - 2pm
Jonathan Williams, American Legislative Exchange Council
Rich States, Poor States
Jonathan Williams is the director of the Center for State Fiscal Reform and the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where he works with state policymakers, congressional leaders, and members of the private sector to develop fiscal policy solutions for the states. Prior to joining ALEC, Williams served as staff economist at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, authoring numerous tax policy studies. Along with his co-authors, Dr. Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore, Williams created the annual, award winning publication, Rich States, Poor States. His work has appeared in many publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Investor’s Business Daily. He has written for the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In addition, Williams is a contributing author of “In Defense of Capitalism” (Northwood University Press). Williams has testified before numerous legislative bodies and spoken to audiences across America. He is a frequent guest on talk radio shows and has appeared on numerous television outlets, including the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Fox Business News. Williams was also the recipient of the prestigious Ludwig von Mises Award in Economics.
Event Located in Old UU 311
January 30, 2013 - 2pm
Vicki Alger, Independent Women's Forum
“School Choice”
Speaker Information at: http://www.vickialger.com
Event Located in Old UU 311
February 20, 2013 - 2pm
Roger Garrison, Auburn University
“The Anatomy of Boom and Bust: Hayek was Right”
Speaker Information at: http://www.auburn.edu/~garriro/tam.htm
Event Located in Old UU 102
March 13, 2013 - 2pm
Todd Zywicki, George Mason University
“The Not-So-Good-Old-Days of Consumer Credit”
Speaker Information at: http://mason.gmu.edu/~tzywick2/
Event Located in Old UU 311
April 24, 2013 - 2pm
Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross
“Stadiums, Mega Events, and Public Finance Follies”
Speaker Information at: http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/vmatheso
Event Located in Old UU 311
May 29, 2013 - 2pm
Leo Kahane, Providence College
“State Gun Laws and the Interstate Export of Crime Guns”
Speaker Information at: Link to CV
Event Located in Old UU 311
Fall of 2011 to Spring of 2012
October 5, 2011 - 2pm
Nathan Ashby, University of Texas at El Paso
“Immigration and Economic Freedom”
Event Located in Old UU 311
November 9, 2011 - 2pm
Fred Foldvary, Santa Clara University
“How Geo-Austrian Cycle Theory Predicts the Next Great Economic Crash”
Event Located in Old UU 311
January 18, 2012 - 2pm
David R. Henderson, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
“Seven Myths about Free Markets”
Event Located in Old UU 311
February 15, 2012 - 2pm
Gary Galles, Pepperdine University
“Recognizing What Isn’t There”
Event Located in Old UU 311
March 7, 2012 - 2pm
Edward J. Lopez, San Jose State University
“The (Ab)use of Takings for Economic Development”
Event Located in Old UU 311
April 4, 2012 - 2pm
David J. Theroux, The Independent Institute
“Free Market Alternatives to Leviathan”
Event Located in Old UU 311
April 25, 2012 - 2pm
Peter G. Klein, University of Missouri
"Entrepreneurship and the Firm"
Event Located in Old UU 311
May 30, 2012 - 2pm
Sanford Ikeda, State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase
“Preservation at the Expense of Liberty”
Event Located in Old UU 311
Fall of 2010 to Spring of 2011
October 13, 2010 - 2pm
John Lott, University of Maryland, College Park
“More Guns, Less Crime”
Event Located in Old UU 311
November 10, 2010 - 2pm
Art Carden, Rhodes College
“Waltonomics: Walmart and Society”
Event Located in Old UU 311
December 1, 2010 - 2pm
Rich Stowell, University of San Francisco
“A Well-Regulated Militia: The Power of the Volunteer American Military”
Event Located in Old UU 311
January 26, 2011 - 2pm
James E. MacDougald, President, The Free Enterprise Nation
“Unsustainable: How Big Government, Taxes and Debt are Wrecking America”
Event Located in Old UU 311
February 9, 2011 - 2pm
P. J. Hill, Wheaton College
“The Morality of Markets”
Event Located in Old UU 311
February 23, 2011 - 5-8pm
PIZZA AND MOVIE NIGHT!
Featuring: Dr. Strangelove
New University Union Multipurpose Room A
March 9, 2011 - 2pm
Joshua Hall, Beloit College
"The Economic Freedom of the World Index"
Event Located in Old UU 311
April 13, 2011 - 2pm
Glen Whitman, California State University, Northridge
“Behavioral Economics and the New Paternalism”
Event Located in Old UU 311
May 11, 2011 - 2pm
Joseph Salerno, Pace University
"An Austrian View of the Financial Crisis and the Prospects for Recovery"
Event Located in Old UU 311
Fall of 2009 to Spring of 2010
October 14, 2009 - 2pm
Stephen Hicks, The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Rockford College
“Is Capitalism Bad for Art?”
Event Located in Old UU 311
November 18, 2009 - 2pm
Charles Kroncke, Dean of Business, and Ronald White, Professor of Philosophy, College of Mount Saint Joseph,
"The Modern Health Care Maze."
Event Located in Old UU 311
January 27, 2010 - 2pm
Michele Boldrin, Washington University in St. Louis
“Against Intellectual Monopoly”
Event Located in Old UU 311
February 10, 2010 - 2pm
Ed Leamer, U.C.L.A.
"Housing and the Recovery"
Event Located in the Library's Biella Room
February 18, 2010 - 2pm
Movie Night! Starting 6pm! - Showing "Broke: The American Dream"
Event Located in Old UU 311
March 10, 2010 - 2pm
William Shughart, University of Mississippi
"The Standard Oil Case 100 Years Later"
Event Located in Old UU 311
April 21, 2010 - 2pm
James S. Taylor, The College of New Jersey
“Why Organ Markets Should be Legalized”
Event Located in Old UU 311
May 26, 2010 - 2pm
Daniel K. Benjamin, Clemson University
"Recycling: The Good, The Bad and (Sometimes) The Ugly"
Event Located in Old UU 311
Fall of 2008 to Spring of 2009
October 22, 2008
Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Senior Fellow Cato Institute, former V.P. of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
“Monetary policy and the Current Crisis”
November 5, 2008
Tim Sandefur, Pacific Legal Foundation
“The Right to Earn a Living”
December 3, 2008
Matthew Ladner, Foldwater Institute
“Demography is not Destiny in Education”
January 21, 2009
Ben Zycher, Manhatten Institute
“Private Sector Contributions to Pharmaceutical Science”
February 24, 2009
Movie Night! Starting 6pm!
February 11, 2009
Gary Galles, Pepperdine University
"Defending Libert is Worth the Abuse"
April 29, 2009
Evam Osborne
“Commerce is Beautiful”
May 20, 2009
Marius Schwartz, Georgetown University
"Net Neutrality"
Winter and Spring quarters of 2008
January 16, 2008
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Professor of Economics and History at SJSU
“A Greenspan Retrospective: Why Everyone has Gotten it Wrong”
Febuary 6, 2008
John Lott, Senior Research Scholar, University of Maryland
“Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't”
March 5, 2008
Robert Higgs, Editor The Independent Review
“The myth of war prosperity”
April 23, 2008
Rodney Fort, University of Michigan
“Tradeoffs Inherent in Public Subsidies of Professional Sports”
May 14, 2008
Charles W. Baird, CSU East Bay, emeritus
"Abuse of Language in Politics"
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