PAST 2010 EVENTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Speaker: Dr. Mark Skousen - Monday, February 1, 2010

Topic: "My Reflections on The Bahamian Economy: 25 Years Later"

Location: Luciano's of Chicago Restaurant, East Bay Street

 

UPCOMING 2010 EVENTS

 

MARCH, 2010

Speaker: Dr. Lawrence White 

Topic & Location: TBD

Biography: 

Prof. White is an Economics Professor at George Mason University. He currently teaches a graduate level course on Monetary Theory and Policy. He earned his AB at Harvard University (1977) and PhD at the University of California at Los Angeles (1982).
 
He has analyzed the theory and history of free banking, a system under which commercial
banks and market forces control the provision of banking services.

 

APRIL, 2010 

Speaker: Laura Huggins

Location & Topic: TBD

Biography:

Laura E. Huggins is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of development at PERC - the Property and Environment Research Center—a think tank in Bozeman, Montana.

Huggins specializes in free market environmentalism, property rights, and population policy. 

 

OCTOBER, 2010

Speaker: Peter Leeson

Topic & Location:  TBD

Biography:

After earning a B.A. at Hillsdale College in 2001, Leeson entered the Ph.D. program in economics at George Mason University. After time as Visiting Fellow in Political Economy at Harvard University in 2004, he earned his doctoral degree from George Mason in 2005. Leeson completed a post-doctoral fellowship as an F.A. Hayek fellow at the London School of Economics.
 
He is the author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, which discusses pirates as pioneers of democracy.

 

 

NOVEMBER, 2010

Speaker: Dr. Virgil Storr

Topic & Location:  TBD

Biography:

Virgil Storr is a senior research fellow and director of graduate student programs at the Mercatus Center. Prior to joining the Mercatus Center he was a Research Fellow at George Mason University.

Dr. Storr's book on the Bahamas' economic culture, was "Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates".

In it, he argues that two ideal typical entrepreneurs dominate the economic life in the Bahamas: the enterprising slave (encouraging Bahamian businessmen to work hard, to be creative and to be productive) and the master pirate (demonstrating how success is more easily attained through cunning and deception).