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Thought To Ponder Warriors and despots are generally bad economists and they instinctively carry their ideas of force and violence into the civil politics of their governments. Free trade is a principle which recognizes the paramount importance of individual action. | Calendar of Events
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).
Speaker: Laura Huggins Location & Topic: TBD 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.
OCTOBER, 2010 Speaker: Peter Leeson Topic & Location: 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.
NOVEMBER, 2010 Speaker: Dr. Virgil Storr Topic & Location: 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). |
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