Spring 2024 Wednesday Seminar Series
The Seminar Series, now over 40 years old, invites scholars from around the world to share their work in a formal lecture, which is followed by a rigorous question and answer session.
The Spring 2024 seminars will be hosted by Dr. Jonathan Schultz and coordinated by Lisa Hill-Corley and Kashiff A. Thompson. All papers made available will be posted on this site for downloading. For more information, call the Center: (703) 993-2316.
Seminars will be held from 12 - 1:15pm in Carow Hall, which is on George Mason University's Fairfax campus. A light lunch for seminar participants will be available at 11:30 am.
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Spring 2024 Schedule of Speakers:
| 1/24 |
Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of Oxford Presentation: Zero-sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development |
| 1/31 |
Douglas Campbell, New Economic School in Moscow Presentation: Robust or just bust? The robustness reproducibility of the American Economic Review |
| 2/7 |
Guido Alfani, University of Bocconi Presentation: As Gods Among Men. A History of the Rich in the West |
| 2/8 CANCELLED |
Steve Durlauf, University of Chicago Presentation: TBA |
| 2/14 |
No Seminar |
| 2/21 |
Ennio Piano, Middle Tennessee State University Presentation: Servant of two masters: The economics of ‘‘slave-hiring’’ in the antebellum South |
| 2/28 |
No Seminar |
| 3/6 |
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK |
| 3/13 |
Timur Kuran, Duke University Presentation: Keeping while Giving: The Perpetuation of Inequalities through the Islamic Waqf |
| 3/20 |
Cory Smith, University of Maryland Presentation: Is Basic Democracy Enough? |
| 3/27 |
Tinatin Mumladze, American University Presentation: Cultural Non-Independence in the Ethnographic Atlas and What to Do About It |
| 4/3 |
Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Presentation: Technological Waves and Local Growth |
| 4/10 |
Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Presentation: The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from German History |
| 4/17 |
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder Presentation: Human Capital Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming |
| 4/24 |
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University Presentation: Movies |
| 5/1 |
Josh Hendrickson, University of Mississippi Presentation: The Treasury Standard: Causes and Consequences |
