Economics Colloquium

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 11:44am

Mark Montgomery and Irene “Tinker” Powell will be on campus this week to deliver the next Economics Colloquium address, “Baby Markets: Thinking the Unthinkable in International Adoption.” The talk is Thursday at 4:30 in Steitz 102. This is quite a topic, where the rules of the game have pretty significant distributional consequences, and it will [...]

Mark (and Tinker) Your Calendars

Wed, 04/03/2013 - 4:28pm

Our next Economics Colloquium is April 18 and will feature Mark Montgomery and Irene “Tinker” Powell, Professors of Economics at Grinnell College. We had originally scheduled this one for May 30, but we just can’t wait. Baby Markets: Thinking the Unthinkable in International Adoption Mark Montgomery and Irene Powell Grinnell College Adoption laws, [...]

Economics Colloquium, February 5 at 11:15

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 12:49pm

. Waiting for Godot, and for Corporate Social Responsibility? David Gerard Lawrence University Milton Friedman famously wrote ‘The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits,’ and ever since (and probably even before) the economics profession has been scratching its collective head wondering whether this is indeed our professional consensus. In this talk, I [...]

A Revolutionary Experience

Wed, 01/16/2013 - 7:03pm

Doug Allen from Simon Fraser University will be on campus on February 14 as part of the Senior Experience in economics. In addition to The Experience, Professor Allen will also deliver a public lecture on his recent book, The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World. The book is a collection of work that [...]

Regulating Wall Street: Did We Go Too Far?

Wed, 10/03/2012 - 4:32pm

Lawrence alum Elijah Brewer will address the above question in the next Economics Colloquium. It will take place next Monday, October 8th, in Steitz Hall 102 at 4:30. We encourage all to attend. Brewer characterizes what he will argue as follows: The causes of the financial crisis of 2007-09 are many and varied. Indeed, the [...]

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