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2010 ESI/IFREE Lectures

All lectures will be from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Wilkinson Hall room #116.

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 February 2010

 

Feb. 5th, Kevin McCabe, Ph.D. - Information will be posted at a later date - Reception to follow

 

Feb. 12th, Henry Butler, Ph.D. – Are State Consumer Protection Acts Really Mimi-FTC Acts?

Henry N. Butler is the Executive Director of the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law.  As the Searle Center's inaugural Executive Director, Dr. Butler has built the Searle Center into a dynamic center for research and education on the impact of judicial decisions and government regulations on economic growth.  In 2009, the Searle Center sponsored over 25 conferences -- over 230 professors participated in Searle Center research programs.   Dr. Butler joined Northwestern from Chapman University where he was the James Farley Professor of Economics in the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics and Professor of Law (courtesy appointment).  After three years as an assistant professor of management at Texas A&M University, Dr. Butler spent one year as a John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He then joined George Mason University as a professor of law, where he also served as Associate Dean and Director of the Law and Economics Center.  Dr. Butler was the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Kansas from 1993 to 2001.

 

Dr. Butler has dedicated much of his career to improving the country’s civil justice system through judicial education programs.  He is an expert in public policy analysis, and has published numerous articles and books on government regulation.  Dr. Butler serves on the Legal Advisory Council of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest, the Advisory Council of Atlantic Legal Foundation, and the Legal Policy Advisory Board of the Washington Legal Foundation.

 

He received his PhD in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and his JD from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982.  He was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics while at the University of Miami.

 

Feb. 19th, Oliver Goodenough, Ph.D.Strategic Mechanisms, Functional Modeling and Experimental Design in Neurolaw  - Reception to follow

 

Professor Goodenough received his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1975 and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.  His wide-ranging research and writing at the intersection of law, economics, neuroscience and behavioral biology make him a leading authority on the impact of the new neuroscience on the law.  He has participated in experiments using fMRI brain scanning techniques to explore the neurological basis of moral reasoning in conjunction with the Humboldt University in Berlin and with the University of London.  His academic appointments reflect the breadth of his studies; he is currently a Professor of Law and the Director of Scholarship at the Vermont Law School, a Faculty Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University where he is co-director of the Law Lab project, a Research Fellow of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, and an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering.

 

Feb. 26th, Ryan Oprea, Ph.D. - A Continuous Dilemma- Reception to follow

 

Ryan Oprea received his Ph.D. at George Mason University at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science in 2006.  He is currently an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the associate director of the LEEPS laboratory. Ryan's current research focuses on (i) the dynamics of competitive markets and (ii) strategic decision making in continuous time settings. 

 

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March 2010

 

Mar. 12th, Deirdre McCloskey, Ph.D. - Bourgeois Rhetoric: Interest and Meaning in the Age of the Industrial Revolution.

 

Deirdre N. McCloskey is a world famous economist, historian, and rhetorician.  The author of fifteen books and three hundred and fifty scholarly papers, she has written on economic history, econometrics, literary criticism, philosophy of science, law and economics, gender studies, theology, economic pedagogy, the teaching of writing, and many other subjects gathered around two themes: what really happened in history, and how do we know?  A prominent member of the "Chicago School" of economics, she is also known as wide-ranging social commentator and progressive libertarian voice.  During her 60s she is working on a six-volume defense of capitalism, "The Bourgeois Era," directed at people who think it needs a defense.  Volumes 1, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, was published in 2006 by the University of Chicago Press, which will bring out volume 2, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World in October, 2010.  Volume 3, The Bourgeois Revaluation: How Innovation Became Ethical, 1600-1848, is available in draft on her web site.  She will be speaking about Volume 4, Bourgeois Rhetoric: Interest and Meaning in the Age of the Industrial Revolution.

 

Mar. 19th, Jason Aimone, Ph.D. - Information will be posted at a later date - Reception to follow

 

Mar. 26th - John Rust, Ph.D. - Information will be posted at a later date - Reception to follow

 

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April 2010

 

Apr. 9th, Gregory Waymire, Ph.D. - Information will be posted at a later date

 

Apr. 23rd, Robert Kurzban Ph.D. - Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind - reception will follow lecture

  

Robert Kurzban received his Ph.D. at the University of California Santa Barbara at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology, and received postdoctoral training at Caltech in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Anthropology, and the University of Arizona’s Economic Science Laboratory with Vernon Smith. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Psychology. In 2003, he founded PLEEP, the Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology. Researchers at PLEEP drawn on theory and methods from evolutionary psychology, experimental economics, and cognitive psychology, with occasional forays into cross-cultural psychology and neuroscience. Research in the lab is focused on the array of specialized cognitive mechanisms designed to navigate a complex social world. In 2008. he won the inaugural Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. His forthcoming book (Princeton University Press) is entitled Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind. http://www.psych.upenn.edu/PLEEP/

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May 2010

 

May 7th, Jim Gentle, Ph.D. - Information will be posted at a later date

 

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Recent Speakers

Dec. 2nd, 2009 Jeffrey Tollaksen, Ph.D. - New Ideas About the Nature of Time - Click here to watch lecture

Nov. 13th, 2009 Sarah F. Brosnan, Ph.D. - An Evolutionary Perspective on the Perception and Utilization of Property. Click here to watch lecture

Nov. 6th, 2009 James Konow Ph.D.Just Luck:  An Experimental Study of Risk Taking and Fairness

Oct. 30th, 2009 Jerome Busemeyer Ph.D. - A Computational Model of the Attention Process Used to Generate Decision Weights. Click here to watch lecture 

Oct. 26th, 2009 Harold Demsetz - Externalities and Social Cost. Click here to watch lecture

Oct. 23rd, 2009 Dan Kovenock Ph.D. –   The Optimal Defense of Networks of Targets. Click here to watch lecture

Oct. 9th, 2009 Monica Smith, Ph.D. - A cognitive History of Material Objects:  The Archaeology of Possession, Inheritance, and Value. Click here to watch lecture

Sept. 25, 2009 Bart J. Wilson, Ph.D. - The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture

Sept. 18th, 2009 Thomas W. Hazlett, Ph.D.  Tragedy TV: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem. Click here to watch lecture

May 20th, 2009 Gerd Gigerenzer Ph.D. - Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences.  Click here to watch lecture

May 7th, 2009 Matt Ridley Ph.D. - The Role of Exchange and Specialization in Human Prosperity. Click here to watch lecture

Apr. 24th, 2009 Dan Bogart Ph.D. - Parliament and the Adaptability of Property Rights:  A case study of Estate Acts and the London Property Market. Click here to watch lecture

Apr. 17th, 2009 Jasmina Arifovic Ph.D. - A Behavioral Model for Mechanism Design: Individual Evolutionary Learning. Click here to watch lecture

Apr. 3rd, 2009 John Dickhaut Ph.D.- High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs: Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles. Click here to watch lecture

Mar. 27th, 2009 Arun Sood Ph.D.Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance. Addition information for lecture. Click here to watch lecture

 

Mar. 20th, 2009 John Ledyard Ph.D.Individual Evolutionary Learning, Other-regarding Preferences, and the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism. Click here to watch lecture

 

Mar. 13th, 2009 Gregory Waymire Ph.D. - Transaction Records, Impersonal Exchange, and Division of Labor. Click here to watch lecture 

Mar. 6th, 2009 James Murphy Ph.D. – Rent Dissipation in Competitive Fisheries: An Experimental Analysis. Click here to watch lecture

 

Feb. 27th, 2009 Amnon Rapoport Ph.D. - Coordination in Large-scale Networks under Two different Information Structures: A Laboratory Study. Click here to watch lecture

Feb. 13th, 2009 Elena Asparouhova Ph.D. - Cognitive Biases, Ambiguity Aversion and Asset Pricing in Financial Markets. Click here to watch lecture

Feb. 6th, 2009 Cary Deck Ph.D. - Sequentially Pricing Multiple Products: Theory and Experiments. Click here to watch lecture

Jan. 16th, 2009 Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Ph.D.Market for Mortgages. Click here to watch lecture

Dec. 5th, 2008 Hillard Kaplan Ph.D. - Evolution of Aging. Click here to watch lecture

Nov. 21st, 2008  Michael McBride Ph.D. -  Conflict and the Shadow of the Future: An Experimental Study. Background and theoretical basis. Click here to watch lecture

Nov. 7th, 2008 Larry Iannaccone Ph.D. - Looking Backward: A Cross-National Study of Religious Trends. Click here to watch lecture

Nov. 6th, 2008 Barry Chiswick Ph.D. - Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants? Click here to watch lecture

Oct. 31st, 2008 John Dickhaut Ph.D. - 
Efficient Markets and Drift: A Computational Approach. Click here to watch lecture

Oct. 24th, 2008  Abel Winn Ph.D. - Framing Effects in Two-Side Clock Auctions. Click here to watch lecture

Oct. 17th, 2008  Eric Schoenberg Ph.D. - Relative Wealth Concerns and Asset Bubbles: An Experimental Approach. Click here to watch lecture

Oct. 3rd, 2008 Peter Bossaerts Ph.D. - Exploring the Nature of "Trading Intuition"

Sept. 15th, 2008  Thomas A.  Rietz Ph.D. - Product market efficiency:  The bright side of myopic, uninformed, and passive external finance

 
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