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    Rebecca Allensworth, The Licensing Racket: Regulation, Prosperity and Justice

    April 28 at 7:30 in Rocky 1.

    Occupational licensing boards are designed to ensure standards of hygiene, competency, and professional ethics.Too often, they protect insiders from competition and give cronyistic treatment to unethical conduct. And, they have expanded enormously in recent decades, greatly enlarging their footprint on the American economy. What is the best way forward on occupational licensing? Free copies of her book for the first 20 students present!

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    Lindsay MacMillan, Life After Dartmouth: From Banker to Novelist

    May 13 at 5 pm in Haldeman 041.

    MacMillan (’16, English and Econ) spent six years at Goldman, working her way up to vice president, before leaving it all and becoming a full-time writer with the success of her Wall Street romance novel The Heart of the Deal (2022), followed quickly by Double Decker Dreams (2023). Come hear her remarkable story! 

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    Kevin Erdmann, Housing Affordability in the Abundance Agenda

    May 19 at 7:30 pm in Rocky 1.

    The author of Shut Out: How the Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession (2019) returns to discuss the affordability issue today. Sponsored by the Political Economy Project. Erdmann, who also authored Building From the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom (2022), is one of our leading experts on the role of regulation in shaping the housing market. Can housing be made more affordable without significant regulatory reform that threatens powerful vested interests?

  • Jay Shambaugh, International Economic Policy in the 2020s

    May 26 at 5 pm in Rocky 1

    Undersecretary for International Affairs at the US Treasury Department from 2023-2025, Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) was a professor of economics at Dartmouth from 2002-11 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2015-2017. In this talk, he will address current problems of international policy in the current age of upheaval.

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    Laura Field, Furious Minds: The Making of MAGA's New Right

    Laura Field (independent scholar) spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, and chronicled the rise of the New Right—the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism. This program will be moderated by Professors Russ Muirhead and Keidrick Roy. 

    Registration is encouraged and is available at http://dartgo.org/field. 

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