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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Spring 2021
An Alternative to the 'Chicago' Approach to Law and Economics
Bruce Benson, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Florida State University, served as FMI Distinguished Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2021 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 served as a continuation of the Property Rights and Justice Without the State seminars he conducted during the Fall 2018 and Fall 2019 semesters. The weekly meetings focused on selected topics in the law and economics of property rights including polycentric law, monopolized law, commercial law, rent seeking, and common law.
A complete reading list for the seminar can be accessed here:
Graduate Seminar on An Alternative to the 'Chicago' Approach to Law and Economics
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Free Market Institute
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