|Peter Boettke|
One of the great joys of working at GMU is that my colleagues actually love economics. We -- faculty, research staff, and graduate students -- live economics 24/7, and just have a great amount of curiosity about the world and how to think about it.
So as the Fall 2015 semester winds down we have a jammed packed week.
On Wednesday this week, Thomas Schelling will be discussing "Two Major Infrastructure Worldwide Projects to Prepare for Global Warming" at the weekly seminar of the Center for the Study of Public Choice. Several years ago Schelling wrote a Project Syndicate piece "Uncertainty and Action on Climate Change" so I am intrigued to learn about what he has learned in studying these difficult issues.
On Thursday, Sandra Peart will discuss Mill, Hayek and the Discussion Tradition in the last meeting for the term of the Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Sandy just recently published her edited volume on Hayek and Mill in Hayek's Collected Works, and she has made numerous contributions to cultivating a renewed appreciation for the discussion tradition in political economy --- perhaps best exemplified in the work of Frank Knight and James Buchanan, but also in Mill and in Sen. See this paper with my colleague David Levy as a prime example.
And then finally, in our Buchanan Speaker Series, Roland Fryer will be discussing Education, Inequality, and Incentives. Here is a talk at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics that he gave explaining the evolution of his thinking on the topic and surveying some of the results from the various studies (circa 2012).
Fantastic way to finish off the semester. Join us for the intellectual adventure if you are in the area. And if you are a student contemplating graduate school (MA or PhD) and you love economics, not just "like it", and you are ready to unleash your natural curiosity about the world, seriously consider GMU for your studies. Lots of research of consequence is being discussed and produced here. We "Dare to Be Different" as Buchanan taught, and we definitely do "Economics with Attitude."
Best place on the planet to study economics and political economy.
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