Research Workshop

The Free Market Institute (FMI) Research Workshop exposes graduate students, faculty, staff and other university colleagues to working research related to free market economics and other topics of interest. It is a "workshop" for work in progress that is not yet under consideration by scholarly journals. FMI faculty, research staff and graduate students, other Texas Tech University faculty members and visiting scholars deliver seminar presentations.

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Fall 2013

Fall 2023 

• • September 8 — Testing Political Antitrust — Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
  • September 15 —  Money and Business Cycles: A Historical Comparison — Peter Ireland, Murray and Monti Professor of Economics, Boston College
  • September 22 —  Do Campaign Finance Regulations Limit the 'Actuality and Appearance' of Corruption? — Jeffrey Milyo, Professor of Economics, University of Missouri
  • September 29 — Toward a Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917-2020 — Phillip Magness, F.A. Hayek Chair of Economics and Economic History, American Institute for Economic Research
  • October 6 — Deficit as Policy: Widening the Scope of Debt-Financed Spending in the United States, 1792-Present — Peter Calcagno, Professor of Economics, College of Charleston
  • October 13 — On Trusting the Experts — Hrishikesh Joshi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Arizona
  • October 20 — Let's End (the Use of Low-Bar) Poverty — Lant Pritchett, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • November 3 — Bureaucratic Nepotism — Juan Felipe Riaño, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
  • November 10 — Policing, Crime, and Accountability in Brazil — David Skarbek, Professor of Political Science and Political Economy, Brown University

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