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  • Colin Calloway, Hard Neighbors: The Scotch Irish Invasion of Native America

    April 28, 2025

    In his newly-published book, celebrated Dartmouth historian Colin Calloway focuses on the unique role of Scotch-Irish immigrants in America's long westward movement. The Scotch-Irish fought Indian wars and shaped the frontier, and their experiences living near, and fighting against, Indians shaped their identity and their attitudes towards government, with repercussions that continue to this day. Co-sponsored by the Department of History.

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  • Clark Neily (Cato), "Overturning Chevron: Revolution in the Administrative State?"

    April 22, 2025

    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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  • Ben Vagel and Stephen Brooks, America's Edge Over China

    April 4, 2025

    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.

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  • Meir Kohn, There is No Such Thing as Market Failure

    February 13, 2025

    "Market failure" is often cited as a rationale for proposing government solutions to economic problems. In #4 of his year-long "Understanding the Economy" lecture series, Meir Kohn subjects the reasoning behind the theory of "market failure" to critical scrutiny.

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  • Capitalism and Communism: What is the Important Difference?

    January 28, 2025

    In this talk, the third in a year-long series, Professor Kohn explains why terms like "capitalism" and "communism" do more to obscure than to illuminate any real understanding of the economic world around us. Understanding the economy involves thinking clearly about the words we use to describe it.

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