Events
Spring 2010 Graduate Student Programs Event Schedule
January 20th (Wednesday 12:30pm-2:30pm) – Practical Econometrics Workshop Session 1 (Mercatus Center board room)
January 20th (Wednesday 2:30pm-4:00pm) – Financial Crisis Readings Group Session 1 (Mercatus Center board room)
January 27th (Wednesday 12:30pm-2:30pm) – Practical Econometrics Workshop Session 2 (Mercatus Center board room)
January 28th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Writing Mercatus On Policy Veronique de Rugy, editor, Mercatus On Policy Jennifer Zambone, publications manager, Mercatus Center (Mercatus Center board room)
February 2nd (Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:30pm) – PPE – Elinor Ostrom, Peter Boettke, and Paul Dragos Aligica “Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School” (Hazel Hall Atrium)
February 3rd (Wednesday 12:30pm-2:30pm) – Practical Econometrics Workshop Session 3 (Mercatus Center board room)
February 4th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Daniel Smith (Buchanan House)
February 10th (Wednesday 12:30pm-2:30pm) – Practical Econometrics Workshop Session 4 (Mercatus Center board room)
February 11th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Alexander Fink (Buchanan House)
February 11th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Regulations and the Public” – Jerry Brito, Mercatus Center Jerry Ellig, Mercatus Center (Mercatus Center board room)
February 11th (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Gerald Gaus (318 Enterprise Hall)
February 15th (Monday 12:00pm-1:30pm) – Theory to Practice Readings Group Session 1 (Mercatus Center board room)
February 17th (Wednesday 12:30pm-2:00pm) – Financial Crisis Readings Group Session 2 (Mercatus Center board room)
February 18th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Shruti Rajagopalan (Buchanan House)
February 18th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Writing Regulatory PICs” – Jerry Brito, Mercatus Center Jerry Ellig, Mercatus Center (Mercatus Center board room)
February 18th (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Tara Smith (318 Enterprise Hall)
February 25th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Harry David (Buchanan House)
February 25th (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Brian Simpson (318 Enterprise Hall)
March 2nd (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Bruce Caldwell (318 Enterprise Hall)
March 4th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW –Will Luther (Buchanan House)
March 16th (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – TBA (318 Enterprise Hall)
March 18th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Simon Bilo (Buchanan House)
March 18th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Careers in Economic and Business Journalism” – Megan McArdle, The Atlantic Other participants to be announced (Mercatus Center board room)
March 23rd (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – TBA (318 Enterprise Hall)
March 24th (Wednesday 12:30pm-2:00pm) – Financial Crisis Readings Group Session 3 (Mercatus Center board room)
March 25th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Elizabeth Harrison (Buchanan House)
March 25th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Working as an Economist in a Federal Agency” – Al McGartland, EPA Andrew Perraut, OIRA Richard Williams, FDA (retired) (Mercatus Center board room)
April 1st (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Nick Curott (Buchanan House)
April 1st (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Careers in non–‐profit management” – Brian Hooks, Chief Operating Officer, Mercatus Center Chad Thevenot, Chief Operating Officer, IHS (Mercatus Center board room)
April 1st (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Jonathan Jacobs “Contingency, Liberty, and Patience as a Political Virtue: Smith’s Crucial Insight” (318 Enterprise Hall)
April 8th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Petrik Runst (Buchanan House)
April 8th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Policy Analysis from an Elected Policy Maker Perspective” – Maurice McTigue, New Zealand Parliament (retired) (Mercatus Center board room)
April 8th (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – TBA (318 Enterprise Hall)
April 15th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Nick Snow + Nick Curott (Buchanan House)
April 15th (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Ryan Oprea “Extreme Walrasian Dynamics: The Gale Example in the Lab” (318 Enterprise Hall)
April 20th (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – TBA (318 Enterprise Hall)
April 22nd (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – Paul Lewis (Buchanan House)
April 27th (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Steven Medema (318 Enterprise Hall)
April 29th (Thursday 9:30am-11:00am) – GSPW – TBA (Buchanan House)
May 4th (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – TBA (318 Enterprise Hall)
Fall 2009 Graduate Student Programs Event Schedule
September 3rd (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “How Washington really works” – Rob Raffety, Greg Conko, Anna Shopen, and Garret Jones (Mercatus Center board room)
September 4th (Friday, 9:00am-4:30pm) – Methodology of the Social Sciences Workshop Kickoff (Buchanan House)
September 8th (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Virgil Storr “Schutz on Objectivity and Spontaneous Orders” (318 Enterprise Hall)
September 9th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Steven Horwitz (Buchanan House)
September 10th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Writing for a policy audience” – Jerry Ellig (Mercatus Center board room)
September 16th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Petrik Runst (Buchanan House)
September 16th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Methodology of the Social Sciences Workshop Session 1 (Buchanan House)
September 17th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “The Human Subjects Review process at GMU” – Dan Rothschild and “The craft of writing and editing” – Jennifer Zambone (Mercatus Center board room)
September 17th (Thursday, 1:30pm-3:00pm) – PPE – Omar Al-Ubaydli “The Nature of Excess: Investigating Price Dynamics” (318 Enterprise Hall)
September 22nd (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Scott Sumner “The Great Danes: Cultural Values & Neoliberal Reforms* (*Or: Is There Nothing Rotten in Denmark?)” (318 Enterprise Hall)
September 23rd (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Jason Aimone (Buchanan House)
September 29th (Tuesday, 1:30pm-3:00pm) – PPE – Eric Claeys “Jefferson Meets Coase: Land-Use Torts, Law & Economics, and Natural Property Rights” (318 Enterprise Hall)
September 30th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Triya Venkatraman (Buchanan House)
September 30th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Methodology of the Social Sciences Workshop Session 2 (Buchanan House)
October 5th (Monday 12:00pm-1:30pm) – Theory to Practice Readings Group Session 1 (Mercatus Center board room)
October 6th (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Gene Callahan “Economics and Its Modes” (318 Enterprise Hall)
October 7th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Simon Bilo (Buchanan House)
October 7th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Business Cycles and Austrian Economics Readings Group Session 1 (Buchanan House)
October 14th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Dan Smith (Buchanan House)
October 14th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Methodology of the Social Sciences Workshop Session 3 (Buchanan House)
October 15th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Mercatus beyond the research” -(Dan Butler and Carrie Conko and “Careers in state government” – Jim Musser (Mercatus Center board room)
October 15th (Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Roger Koppl (318 Enterprise Hall)
October 20th (Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Henry Manne “Entrepreneurship, Compensation, & the Corporation” (318 Enterprise Hall)
October 21st (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Doug Rogers (Buchanan House)
October 28th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Nick Curott (Buchanan House)
October 28th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Methodology of the Social Sciences Workshop Session 4 (Buchanan House)
October 29th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “When policy research meets reality” – David Boaz, Mauro DeLorenzo, Margery Turner, Steve Radelet (Mercatus Center board room)
October 29th (Thursday 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Robert Leeson (318 Enterprise Hall)
November 2nd (Monday 12:00pm-1:30pm) – Theory to Practice Readings Group Session 2 (Mercatus Center board room)
November 4th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Triya Venkatraman (Buchanan House)
November 5th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Jump-starting careers in public policy” – Scott Barton and David Kirby (Mercatus Center board room)
November 5th (Thursday 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – James Stacey Taylor (318 Enterprise Hall)
November 11th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Will Luther “Revisiting the Monetary Theory of the Trade Cycle and the Great Depression” (Buchanan House)
November 11th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Business Cycles and Austrian Economics Readings Group Session 2 (Buchanan House)
November 12th (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Public speaking and effective presentations” – Tom G. Palmer (Mercatus Center board room)
November 12th (Thursday 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – Steven Horwitz (318 Enterprise Hall)
November 18th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Nick Snow (Buchanan House)
November 18th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Methodology of the Social Sciences Workshop Session 5 (Buchanan House)
November 19th (Thursday 12:00pm-1:30pm) – PPE – William S. Mounts (318 Enterprise Hall)
November 25th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – No GSPW – SEA Conference/Thanksgiving
December 2nd (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Jared Barton (Buchanan House)
December 2nd (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Business Cycles and Austrian Economics Readings Group Session 3 (Buchanan House)
December 3rd (Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm) – Career Development Workshop – “Communicating ideas to elected officials” – Maurice McTigue (Mercatus Center board room)
December 3rd (Thursday 12:00pm-1:30pm) – PPE – Neera Badhwar “Friendship & Commercial Societies” (318 Enterprise Hall)
December 7th (Monday 12:00pm-1:30pm) – Theory to Practice Readings Group Session 3 (Mercatus Center board room)
December 9th (Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm) – GSPW – Stewart Dompre (Buchanan House)
December 9th (Wednesday 12:15pm-1:45pm) – Methodology of the Social Sciences Workshop Session 6 (Buchanan House)
December 10th (Thursday 1:00pm-2:30pm) – PPE – George Selgin (318 Enterprise Hall)
