Past Provocative Lectures
2022
Spring 2022
The Voltage Effect How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
March 9, 2022
John A. List, Ph.D
2021
Fall 2021
Ideology, Norms, and the Prospects for Democracy [pdf]
November 10, 2021
Erik O. Kimbrough, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and
Philosophy at Chapman University's Argyros School of Business and Economics
Spring 2021
The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind [pdf]
April 22, 2021
Bart Wilson
Professor, Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Economics and Law
Director, Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
Why the Study of Economics Neglects Race, and What Can be Done About It? [pdf]
February 24, 2021
Gary Hoover, Ph.D.
Tulane University, Professor of Economics and Executive Director or Murphy Institute
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2020
Spring 2020
2020 Provocative Lectures were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Challenging Political Economy of Medicare-For-All [pdf]
March 18, 2020 - to be rescheduled
Roberta Q. Herzberg, Ph.D.
Distinguished Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University
What can we learn from Uber? Three Large Scale Field Experiments on Tipping, Apologies, and the Gender Pay Gap [pdf]
April 14, 2020 - to be rescheduled
John A. List, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Chicago
2019
Fall 2019
Bringing Fiscal Sanity to California Infrastructure Policy [pdf]
November 19, 2019, Tues.
Marc Joffe, MPA
Sr. Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Patents, Intellectual Property, and the Rise of the Rent-Seeking Society [pdf]
October 30, 2019, Wed.
Alex Tabarrok, Ph.D.
Professor, George Mason University
The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System [pdf]
September 18, 2019, Wed.
David Skarbek, Ph.D.
Spring 2019
Mixed-Economy Entrepreneurship: What is a Capitalist to Do? [pdf]
April 23rd, 2019
Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer [pdf]
March 18th, 2019
Linda Royster Beito, Ph.D.
Professor, Stillman College. Ph.D. University of Alabama
The Cambodian Genocide and Communism [pdf]
February 19th, 2019
Channy Chhi Laux
2018
Fall 2018
Who Watches the Prosecutors? [pdf]
November 8, 2018
Howard Root
Founder and CEO of Vascular Solutions, Inc.
Knowledge is Power [pdf]
October 10, 2018
Adam Andrzejewski
CEO and Founder of Open the Books
Helping Low-Income Workers Get Ahead: A Market Solution [pdf]
September 27, 2018
Safwan Shah, Ph.D.
CEO and Founder PayActive
Spring 2018
The Old Lady, the Fly and the Horse: an Outline for Economic Reform [pdf]
April 11, 2018
John Cochrane
Incarceration Nation - How America Became the World's Leading Jailer [pdf]
March 20, 2018
Clark Neily
Black Liberty Matters [pdf]
February 28, 2018
Jacob T. Levy
