Ben Vagle ('22) and Steve Brooks (GOV), "America's Economic Advantage Over China"
April 4 at 5 pm in Rocky 1.
Is China's economic power approaching America’s, partly by making the US fatally dependent on Chinese trade? These two Dartmouth authors argue the opposite: America's control over the largest multinational corporations, combined with Beijing's systemic manipulation of its economic data, mean that there is far less parity between the two world powers than is commonly believed.
Jeff Tulis (UT-Austin), "Normalizing Trump"
April 14 in Rocky 1 at 5 pm
The extraordinary power of Trump 2.0, and the most dangerous consequences of his policies, stem from the normalization of anti-constitutional practices. Tulis, author of the classic book The Rhetorical Presidency and many other works on American politics and constitutionalism, is Professor emeritus of political science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Meir Kohn (ECON), Lecture 5, "The Myth of 'Economic Man'"
Apr. 17 in Rocky 1 at 6 pm
In conventional economics, people are assumed to be isolated calculating machines. In the real world, people cooperate with others, and are guided by emotions and entrepreneurship as well as calculation. To understand the economy and to guide policy, we must take these qualities of real people into account.
Clark Neily (Cato), "Overturning Chevron: Revolution in the Administrative State?"
Under the 1984 Chevron ruling, the Supreme Court instructed lower courts to extend wide deference to administrative agency experts in interpreting the law. The Roper/Bright ruling in 2024 revoked Chevron, with vast, far-reaching implications. What will be the real-world fallout?
Clark Neily is senior vice president for legal studies at the Cato Institute. His areas of interest include constitutional law, overcriminalization, coercive plea bargaining, police accountability, and gun rights.
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