Visiting Scholars Program
The Free Market Institute (FMI) Visiting Scholars Program, made possible by a donation from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation, has brought research professors to Texas Tech University to collaborate with faculty, staff, and graduate students, and participate in Institute programming.
About the Program
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Fall 2018
Property Rights
Bruce Benson, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Florida State University, served as FMI Distinguished Visiting Scholar during the Fall 2018 semester. Prof. Benson's areas of expertise include law and economics, new institutional economics, public choice, and economics of crime and substance abuse.
Prof. Benson's seminar focused on a selection of classic and contemporary readings on the theory and history of property rights from an economic perspective. The weekly meetings centered on several themes, including externalities, common pool resources, cooperation versus coercion, and government allocation of property rights.
A complete reading list for the seminar can be accessed here:
Graduate Seminar on Property Rights - Fall 2018
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