Wednesday, May 16 at 8pm EST

Speaker: Stephen Davies

 “The Modern World and its Origin: the Crucial Role of Liberty”

The modern World is radically different from what came before it and marks a huge improvement in human experience and prospects. Why though did this happen and why did it all start in North West Europe around 1750 rather than somewhere else (notably China)? The key factor is liberty and the lack of a hegemonic power.

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Stephen Davies is a program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies and the education director at the Institute for Economics Affairs in London.

Dr. Davies attended the University of St Andrews from 1972 to 1976, graduating with a First Class degree in History. He also obtained his PhD from the same university in 1984, on the topic of the Scottish criminal justice system before the abolition of private courts.

He formerly taught at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he was senior lecturer. His academic and research interests include the history of crime and criminal justice, history of ideas and political thought, comparative economic history, and the history of the private supply of public goods. He teaches, amongst other topics, courses on the history of crime and punishment in Britain, and the history of the Devil.

He has published a number of books and articles on a range of topics. His books includeThe Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (which he edited with Nigel Ashford) and just recently Empiricism and History. Among his published essays are two in the recently published collection The Voluntary City, on the subjects of the private provision of law enforcement and the use of markets and property to plan urban growth.

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MONDAY, May 21  at 8pm EST

Speaker: Tyler Cowen

 “Poverty, Agriculture, and the Economics of Development”

What are the frontier issues in development economics today? What actually works? Are the ‘economics of food’ the most important policy issues in the world? In this webinar, Tyler Cowen will discuss the impact of food production and exchange in the global economy.

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Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the co-author of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. Cowen is the author of the forthcoming book, An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies.

Cowen has published dozens of books, reviews, and articles. Cowen’s most recent book, The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better has been declared, “the most debated nonfiction book so far this year,” by columnist David Brooks in 2011. His other recent books include Create Your Own Economy and Discover Your Inner Economist, as well as a co-authored textbook series from Worth Publishers: Modern Principles of Economics, Modern Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics, and Modern Principles of Economics: Microeconomics. He contributes frequently to The New York Times and serves on the advisory boards of both Wilson Quarterly and American Interest.

He is also the author of Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding (2006); Markets and Culture Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of the Mexican Amate Painters (2005); Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World’s Cultures (2002); What Price Fame? (2000); and In Praise of Commercial Culture (1998). He co-authored Explorations in the New Monetary Economics (1994) with Randall Kroszner.

Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his Ph.d. in economics from Harvard University in 1987.