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The Department of Economics conducts a weekly research and reading workshop. Attendees are asked to read the selections ahead of time.

Meetings: Fridays 3:30–5:00 p.m. in DMH 135 followed by Barstool Economists meeting at listed eatery. Please email Matt Holian or Ed Lopez if you have any questions about our workshop, or are interested in presenting your research.

Click here to view the Spring 2012 Schedule 

Fall 2011 Schedule is Below:

Date
Barstool
Location
Paper Title or
Reading Topic
Paper Presenter or Reading Selection
08-26Grande PizzaIntroduction and Group DiscussionVideo and Discussion, TBD
09-02Smoke EatersMcCloskey on RhetoricRhetoric of Inquiry (19pp.)
Discussion Leader: Ed Lopez
09-09Grande PizzaMcCloskey on Econometric MethodologySize Matters (20pp.)
Discussion Leader: Matt Holian
optional readings: Leamer comment; Hooks & Robinson
09-16Smoke EatersMcCloskey on the Bourgeois EraBourgeios Dignity Chapters:
1 (The Tide of Innovation)
26 (Institutions Cannot Be Viewed As...) (NB: this is ch.33 in final book)
27 (Nor Did The Glorious Revolution...); (NB final ch #)

Discussion Leader: Jeff Hummel
optional: 28 (And So the Chronology...); 29 (And Anyway the Entire Absence...); Boettke comment
09-23Grande PizzaSpecial Event*

*room change: DMH 149B		A Video Conversation with Dierdre McCloskey
09-30Grande Pizza"Center City Vibrancy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation"Matt Holian, SJSU
10-074th St Pizza“The Financial Crisis in the U.K.:  Uncertainty, Calculation, and Error”Anthony J. Evans, Fulbright Scholar in Residence and ESCP Europe Business School
10-14 No Workshop Scheduled 
10-21 NoWorkshop Scheduled 
10-28Grande Pizza"An Analysis of Tax-Induced Cigarette Smuggling in America"Todd Nesbit, College of Charleston
11-044th St Pizza"L'Oreal v. eBay: Trademarks Reshaping Cross-border Internet Trade."Tsvet Tsonsevski, Foundation for Economic Education
11-11Grande Pizza“The U.S.-E.U. Antitrust Coordination Doctrine”Robert Dixon Crouch, M.A. Candidate, Department of Economics, SJSU
11-18 No Workshop ScheduledSouthern Economic Association meeting
11-25 No Workshop ScheduledThanksgiving Holiday
12-024th St Pizza“The retention consequences of caps on executive compensation during financial crises”Jed de Varo, CSU East Bay
12-09Grande Pizza“Brief, Renewable, and Private: A Better Fashion Copyright” (paper not available yet but here is a short background reading)Ed Lopez

 

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