|Peter Boettke|
I am the editor (along with Fred Sautet) of The Collected Works of Israel M. Kirnzer (published by Liberty Fund). Volumes 1 and 2 of a 10 volume set have been published. And I knew UFM represented a special place for Israel Kirzner because he constantly told me I had to visit the university when I worked alongside of him at NYU. But I did not know until this week that there was a research center named after him at UFM. The Kirzner Entrepreneurship Center is located in the Department of Economics at UFM, where there is also a Vernon Smith Center for Experimental Economics. I think a good addition would be a James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy and Social Philosophy.
The attention to pedagogy and the inter-relationship between pedagogy and the broader social philosophy of liberalism is also what makes UFM unique.
To learn more about UFM, this Reason TV video might be helpful.
It is amazing what goes on at FMU (or UFM as they have it)!
Posted by: Mario Rizzo | June 10, 2011 at 03:01 PM
We do have CADEP, Centro para el Análisis de las DEcisiones Públicas (Center for Public Choice Analysis) http://cadep.ufm.edu/ , although it would be a great idea to rename it after James M. Buchanan. It was great to have you and Christopher Coyne there, we would like to have more often. Maybe we could arrange some virtual session in the future. Thank you very much for sharing with us.
Posted by: Edgar Duarte | June 11, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Edgar,
If you want to invade the English department at UFM, check out what we are doing at Austrian Economics and Literature:
http://theliteraryorder.blogspot.com
Posted by: Troy Camplin | June 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM