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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.


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Spring 2019

Workshop in Applied Price Theory

Bruce Benson, Distinguished Visiting Scholar

Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics, History, English and Communication at University of Illinois at Chicago, served as FMI Distinguished Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2019 semester. Prof. McCloskey's areas of expertise include economic theory, economic history, philosophy, ethics, and law.

The Workshop in Applied Price Theory brought together current and prospective graduate students from Texas Tech University and other colleges and universities for lectures and breakout sessions focused on topics in price theory. Readings focused on selections from Prof. McCloskey's revised working manuscript for her textbook The Applied Theory of Price. In breakout sessions, participants completed exercises and discussion problems from the The Applied Theory of Price and discussed their reasoning and solutions with Prof. McCloskey.

Rosolino Candela, Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, also served as a facilitator, presenting a lecture on the price theory tradition developed at the University of California Los Angeles in the second half of the 20th Century.

A complete reading list for the workshop can be accessed here:

Workshop in Applied Price Theory - Spring 2019

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