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THE SMITH CENTER | for Private Enterprise Studies |
Calendar of Events
Link to past Smith Center Speakers videos
Fall of 2009 to Spring of 2010
October 14th
Stephen Hicks, The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Rockford College
“Is Capitalism Bad for Art?”
November 18th
Charles Kroncke, Dean of Business, and Ronald White, Professor of Philosophy, College of Mount Saint Joseph,
"The Modern Health Care Maze."
Fall of 2008 to Spring of 2009
October 22nd
Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Senior Fellow Cato Institute, former V.P. of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
“Monetary policy and the Current Crisis”
November 5th
Tim Sandefur, Pacific Legal Foundation
“The Right to Earn a Living”
December 3rd
Matthew Ladner, Foldwater Institute
“Demography is not Destiny in Education”
January 21st
Ben Zycher, Manhatten Institute
“Private Sector Contributions to Pharmaceutical Science”
February 24th
Movie Night! Starting 6pm!
February 11th
Gary Galles, Pepperdine University
"Defending Libert is Worth the Abuse"
March
To be announced.
April 29th
Evam Osborne
“Commerce is Beautiful”
May 20th
Marius Schwartz, Georgetown University
"Net Neutrality"
Winter and Spring quarters of 2008
January 16th
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Professor of Economics and History at SJSU
“A Greenspan Retrospective: Why Everyone has Gotten it Wrong”
Febuary 6th
John Lott, Senior Research Scholar, University of Maryland
“Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't”
March 5th
Robert Higgs, Editor The Independent Review
“The myth of war prosperity”
April 23rd
Rodney Fort, University of Michigan
“Tradeoffs Inherent in Public Subsidies of Professional Sports”
May 14th
Charles W. Baird, CSU East Bay, emeritus
"Abuse of Language in Politics"
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