Visiting Speaker Series
The PPE Program typically hosts two guest speakers per semester. These are public lectures, open to the entire campus community, and are followed by a Q&A opportunity. In spring 2024, we are scheduled to host Ryan Muldoon and Vernon Smith, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Past speakers include:
- Jacob Levy
- Michael Munger
- Steven Horwitz
- Gianna Englert
- Daniel D’Amico
- Angela Dills
- Julian Mueller
- Dennis Rasmussen
- Glory Liu
- Brandon Davis
- Emily Skarbek
- David Skarbek
- Ben Powell
- Sean Mulholland
- Danny Shahar
- Alexei Marcoux
- Chris Surprenant
- Ilya Somin
- Radley Balko
- Abby Hall Blanco
- Jason Brennan
- Anthony Gregory
- Peter Jaworski
- Lewis Hoss
- Virgil Storr
- Jacob Mchangama
- Stefan Eich
- Lauren Hall
- Kevin Vallier
- Oded Galor
- Emilie Sartre
- Kevin Elliott
- Eugene Volokh
- Mark David Hall
“Book Club” Style Reading Groups
A small group of students and a faculty facilitator work through a recent book with a PPE orientation over several meetings, and then we bring the author to campus to join the group for a final session. These are non-credit, voluntary enrichment activities, and it's a real treat to be able to have the author participate and answer questions. Students are provided with a free copy of the book. Check with one of the co-coordinators for details on upcoming groups.
Next book club: David Schmidtz, Living Together: Inventing Moral Science
Past author visits include:
John Tomasi (Free Market Fairness)
Charles Griswold (Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter)
Nicholas Capaldi (The Anglo-American Conception of the Rule of Law)
Ben Powell (Wretched Refuse: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (with Alex Nowrasteh))
Jonathan Marks (Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education)
Day-Long Student Colloquia
We are occasionally able to offer full-day student seminars and colloquia.
Past day-long programs have been on:
Cryptocurrency
Criminal Justice Reform