A Conversation with Peter Robinson '79

Peter M. Robinson is the Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's video series program, Uncommon Knowledge™. He spent six years in the White House, serving from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush and from 1983 to 1988 as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan. He wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which President Reagan called on General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!”

This event, hosted by PEP co-founder Doug Irwin (Economics), took place in Haldeman 125 on Monday Oct. 25 at 5 pm.

What Capitalism Needs--Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists

Is capitalism in trouble? Is it ill-equipped to face the emerging challenges? Has it forgotten some of the lessons taught by economists from Adam Smith to Albert Hirschman?

John L. Campbell, Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology and one of the world's leading experts on the sociology of economic institutions, addresses these questions in his provocative new book (co-authored with John A. Hall), What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists (Cambridge, 2021). Come hear his report!

For more information, click here.

Monday, Oct. 18, at 5 pm in Silsby 028.

Women and Capitalism: 1400 Years in 14 Minutes (Okay, 15)

What do we think of when we hear the phrase "women and capitalism"?

Hank Clark, senior lecturer and PEP program director, will discuss some of the possibilities. It seems the relationship is more complicated than we often realize.

His talk is a kind of prequel to one by Joseph Henrich (Harvard) the next day, "The WEIRDest People in the World" in Carpenter 013.

This talk is sponsored by the Political Economy Project, and is free and open to the public.

Monday Oct. 4, Silsby 028 at 5 pm.

The Looming Challenge of Climate-Induced Migration

Do humans have a natural need for a homeland? Do they also have a natural right
to emigration? Can there be tensions among these needs and rights? Such are among the questions David Miller will address in his presentation.

Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, since 1979, Miller is one of the world's
most respected political theorists, bringing evidence from the social sciences
to bear on topics ranging from market socialism, to citizenship and nationhood, to the idea of justice in all its settings.

This event is sponsored by the Daniel Webster Project at Dartmouth College;
co-sponsored by the Political Economy Project.

Monday Oct. 25 at 12:30 pm. Zoom: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/92400574749?pwd=N3l6VWJtVjczWEVLUjRsYnVRcUVB...   
Passcode: 928090

Clintonian Origins of Israeli Health Care--Bernie Avishai

The health insurance proposal rejected in the United States in the early 1990s is remarkably similar to the system now in place in Israel. Come hear Bernie Avishai discuss--Nov. 8 in Silsby 028 at 5 pm.

Visiting Professor of Government, Bernie Avishai is also Adjunct Professor of Business at the Hebrew University. A past Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of 'The Hebrew Republic' and other books, and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review, The Nation and New York Times Magazine. He is a former editor of Harvard Business Review, and International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG.

For more information, click here: https://pep.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=65048&listing=1#.YXweIy2z2u4.