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 2021
Current Issues on Capital Theory and Populism
Nicolás Cachanosky, Associate Professor of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver, served as FMI Visiting Scholar during the Fall 2021 semester. Prof. Cachanosky's areas of expertise include money and banking, macroeconomics, and history of economic thought.
Prof. Cachanosky's seminar focused on two separate themes. The first addressed the history of capital theory with particular emphasis on the problem of the period of production. It emphasized recent applications of finance to the field of capital theory and explores potential areas of research that connect capital theory with other fields of research. The second focused on literature studying the recent rise of left-leaning populism in Latin America. Readings and discussion addressed the difficult task of defining populism and explored areas of research on the issue of 21st-century populism.
A complete reading list for the seminar can be accessed here:
Graduate Seminar on Current Issues on Capital Theory and Populism - Fall 2021
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