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.
Spring 2022 Fall 2021 Spring 2021 Fall 2020 Spring 2020
Fall 2019 Spring 2019 Fall 2018 Spring 2018 Fall 2017
Spring 2017 Fall 2016 Spring 2016 Fall 2015 Spring 2015
Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Fall 2013
Spring 2016
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- February 19 — Crisis Facilitates Policy Change, Not Liberalization — Marshall Stocker, Portfolio Manager and Global Macro Equity Strategist at Eaton Vance Investment Managers
- February 26 — Criminal Injustice: The System-Wide Failure of Criminal Law and Its Enforcement — Bruce Benson, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Florida State University
- February 29 — What Matters More? Institutions or Specifications? — Robert Lawson, Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Endowed Chair in Economic Freedom at Southern Methodist University (co-authored with Ryan Murphy, Research Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University)
- March 4 — Feud as Law — David Friedman, Professor of Law at Santa Clara University
- March 25 — Economic Institutions and Comparative Economic Development: A Post-Colonial Perspective — Daniel Bennett, Assistant Professor of Economics at Patrick Henry College
- April 7 — Witch Trials — Peter Leeson, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University
- April 22 —For Her Own Good: Ideology and Interests in Progressive Era Regulation of Women's Labor — Jayme Lemke, Senior Fellow, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Mercatus Center at George Mason University
- April 29 — Yes Virginia, There is a Law Merchant — Bruce Benson, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Florida State University
Free Market Institute
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Address
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Email
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