SNAC	Saturday Night Anarchy Club

SNAC was founded in 2002 by economists Daniel Klein and Edward Stringham. The final Saturday Night Anarchy Club will be held May 3, 2008.

Character of the meeting: In the words of Dan Klein: The 90-minute seminar is a hearing of serious intellectual enterprise. It is an academic seminar without the academy. The conventional format is for the speaker to deliver a presentation of 45-50 minutes and then open to discussion. Speakers are encouraged to bring overhead transparencies for our overhead projector or distribute follow-along handouts.

Meeting agenda:

7:15 – 7:30: Reception and socializing

7:30 – 9:00: Seminar presentation and formal discussion

9:00 – 10:00: -- open interaction --

10:00 pm: Adjourn to the San Jose bars!

Location:

The meetings take place at Paseo Plaza Condominium Complex at 144 S. 3rd St in Downtown San Jose. The Paseo Plaza is directly directly across the street from the San Jose Repetory Theater (and on the other side of the Paseo Plaza is the San Jose State Library) so there are many lots with free parking. If you cannot find a spot in the outdoor lot directly accross the street (next to the Repetory Theater) there is a parking garage on San Carlos between Third and Second and another one on Fourth and San Fernando directly accross the street from the San Jose State Library.

To get into the complex, you will need to use the main entrance of the building on 144 S 3rd St (across from the San Jose Repetory Theater), where you will be able to see the clubroom inside the glass doors just past the elevators. We will have someone checking to let people in so please be patient.

Cost of Admission: Please bring a bottle of wine or $10 (The purpose of this make the even fun, like a wine tasting. Please: No white zinfandel!). If anyone wants to bring cheese that would be great too.

Upcoming Speakers
Date	Speaker	Presentation Title
3 May 2008	Edward Stringham San Jose State University	"The Radical Political Economy of 19th Century Preacher David Lipscomb"
Previous Speakers
19 Oct 2002	David Friedman Santa Clara University	Government as the One Coercive Apparatus We Tolerate
16 Nov 2002	Edward Stringham San Jose State University	Financial Anarchy in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam
18 Jan 2003	Dan Klein Santa Clara University	The Ideological Migration of Intellectuals (based on work with Theodore Balaker and Stephen Davies)
22 Feb 2003	Fred Foldvary Santa Clara University	Refuting the Case for the IMF
5 Apr 2003	Lotta Stern Stockholm University	The Voluntary Provision of Snowmobile Trails in Sweden
17 May 2003	Tim Starr NA	For A New Libertarian Foreign Policy
25 Oct 2003	Jeffrey Rogers Hummel San Jose State University	Fixing the Problems with Austrian Business Cycle Theory
15 Nov 2003	Kenneth Malpass Stanford University	The Economics of Kenneth Boulding and Economic Growth
24 Jan 2004	Kris Mitchener Santa Clara University	The Great Depression as a Credit Boom Gone Wrong (coauthored with Barry Eichengreen)
21 Feb 2004	Dan Klein Santa Clara University	The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (As Much As They Do)
April 2004	Benjamin Powell San Jose State University	Experimental Evidence on the Efficiency Properties of the Hobbesian Jungle (coauthored with Bart Wilson)
May 2004	Ken Kam CEO Marketocracy.com	Competition as a Discovery Procedure: An Introduction to the Masters 100 Fund
25 October 2004	Eugene Volokh UCLA Law School	Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope
13 November 2004	Spencer MacCallum Author of Art of Community	Designing a Constitution of an Anarchist Community

29 Jan 2005	Ronald A. Howard Stanford University	Teaching Freedom
26 Feb 2005	Daniel Sutter Oklahoma University	A Sympathetic Critique of Libertarian Anarchism
23 April 2005	Scott Beaulier Mercer University	Post-communist Lessons for Libertarian Social Change: The Case of the Czech Republic
14 May 2005	Dan Klein Santa Clara University	Is There a Free-Market Economist in the House?
8 Oct 2005	Fred Foldvary Santa Clara University	Geo-anarchism: How Private Communities Can Replace Imposed Government and Stinky Taxes
3 Dec 2005	David Friedman Santa Clara University	Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
10 June 2006	Dan Klein George Mason University	Challengers, Bargainers, and Royalty: An Interpretation of Prominent Classical Liberal Figures
13 May 2006	Christopher Coyne Hampden Sydney College	Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Foreign Intervention and the Nirvana Fallacy.
9 Dec 2006	Ryan Oprea University of California Santa Cruz	"Experimental Economics and Freedom”
13 April 2007	Jeffrey Rogers Hummel San Jose State University	"A Tentative Case Against Voluntary Slavery"
19 May 2007	David Henderson Naval Post Graduate School Monterey	Talk by David Henderson " My Month at the Economics Department at Geoge Mason University: An Intellectual Travelogue." and Special Going Away Party for Benjamin Powell who is moving to Suffolk University in Boston in June.
16 Dec 2007	Jeffrey Rogers Hummel San Jose State University	"Is Detente Between Anarchist and Minarchists Desirable? "