Open Borders, For or Against? A Debate
Bryan Caplan (Economics, George Mason University) and Mark Krikorian (Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies) will participate in a debate on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: whether the solution to our immigration crisis is a policy of open borders. The event is set for Wednesday, April 29, 2020; time and place TBD.
Eminent Domain in India and the U.S.: Comparative Perspectives
Shruti Rajagopalan (SUNY-Purchase and the Mercatus Center) discusses the different ways in which governments appropriate private property for public purposes in the United States and her native India. January 14, 2020, 5 pm in Rocky 2.
Bastiat's "Economic Harmonies": An Overlooked Libertarian Classic?
David Hart (Liberty Fund, second from left) meets with friends, faculty and students at Pine after his presentation on the work of Frederic Bastiat (1801-50), whom Joseph Schumpeter once called the "most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived" at an event sponsored by the Political Economy Project on Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Jack Nicastro '23)
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