Political Economy Research Institute at MTSU
Events
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Debating Democracy: Do We Need More or Less?
1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022 at MTSU Student Union BallroomProfessor and author Jason Brennan visited MTSU to discuss topics from his latest book, Debating Democracy. “Democracy does not convert popular opinion into power. Instead, for most voters, politics is less about policy than it is about signaling their loyalty to their peer groups.…
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AIER Bastiat Society: “My Escape from North Korea and the Importance of Freedom” with Songmi Han
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 | 6 p.m. | Richland Country Club, 1 Club Dr, Nashville, TN About the Event: AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville, in partnership with the PERI at MTSU, will host an in-person event with North Korean refugee author, Songmi Han. Songmi is co-author of the recently released book Greenlight to Freedom:…
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Dr. Harold A. Black Academic Conference
The Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and the Political Economy Research Institute at Middle Tennessee State University were pleased to host an academic conference to honor and build upon the important scholarship of Dr. Harold A. Black.…
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AIER Bastiat Society: “How Covid Exposed a Moral Sickness “And Almost Everyone Is Infected” with Ben Bayer
Sept. 1, 2022 | 6 p.m.Richland Country Club, 1 Club Dr, Nashville, TN About the Event: AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville, in partnership with the PERI at MTSU, will host an in-person event with Ben Bayer, Fellow and Director of Content at the Ayn Rand Institute. This talk will explore how the Covid pandemic…
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AIER Bastiat Society: “Are Markets Moral?” with Daniel J. Smith
AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville hosted an in-person event on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at the Richland Country Club in Nashville with Daniel J. Smith, Professor of Economics at Middle Tennessee State University. About the Event: Even the harshest critics of market societies begrudgingly recognize the efficiency of markets in generating unprecedented material…
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AIER Bastiat Society: “Our Increasingly Politicized Fed” with Bryan Cutsinger
“Our Increasingly Politicized Fed” with Bryan Cutsinger Thursday, April 21, 20226-8 p.m. (CDT) Richland Country Club1 Club Dr.Nashville, TN 37215 AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville hosted an event with Bryan Cutsinger, assistant professor of economics at the Norris-Vincent College of Business at Angelo State University. In recent years, the Federal…
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AIER Bastiat Society: “Word and Numbers” with James R. Harrigan and Antony Davies
Word and Numbers with James R. Harrigan and Antony DaviesPresented in partnership with the Nashville Bastiat Society, American Institute for Economic Research Thursday, March 31, 2022 | 6-8 p.m. (CDT) Richland Country Club1 Club Dr. | Nashville, TN 37215 AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville will host an…
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Dr. Ming Wang’s Cosmopolitan Initiative Lecture Series: “Seeking Common Ground in U.S. and China Trade”
About the Lecture: In this presentation, Dr. Ming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., discusses the commonalitiets of the two superpowers of the 21st century, U.S. and China. He will analyze the mutually beneficial trade opportunities, including for Tennessee. Dr. Wang firmly believes that while ideological differences do exist between the world’s #1 and #2 powers, it is…
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MTSU Honors Lecture Series: Machiavelli’s Prince as a Rational Political Actor, with Dr. Ennio Piano
MTSU economics scholar Ennio Piano, Ph.D., provides a scholarly interpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe (The Prince) as part of the Exegesis Spring 2022 Honors College Lecture Series at Middle Tennessee State University. WATCH VIDEO As The Prince provides several case studies from Roman history and contemporary Italian politics, Piano analyzes the text…
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Public Choice Society Annual Meeting – Nashville 2022
The 59th Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society was held March 10-12, 2022, at the Grand Hyatt in Nashville, Tennessee. The PERI was the academic host for the Public Choice Society Annual Meetings in Nashville, TN (March 10th-12th), which included being the primary sponsor of the plenary talk, by PERI-affiliated scholar Bryan Caplan…
