Department of Economics / FAS and
C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics
Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic Processes 
Fall 2006 Schedule


Seminars are held on Mondays from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in Room 539 of 110 Fifth Avenue.
 

Coordinator: Prof. David Harper  @ (212) 998-8959 or david.harper@nyu.edu
 
Sept. 18
Janet Landa (York University, Canada)


"Austrian Theory of Entrepreneurship Meets the Social Science and


 Bioeconomics of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group"



Sept. 25
Eugene White (Economics Dept, Rutgers University)


"Bubbles and Busts: The 1990s in the Mirror of the 1920s"



Oct. 2
Barkley Rosser (James Madison University)


"Computational and Dynamic Complexity in Economics"



Oct. 16
Maria Minniti (Babson College)


"Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior"



Oct. 23
Mark Casson (University of Reading, UK)


"The Discovery of Opportunities"



Oct. 30
Adam Gifford (Economics Dept, California State University, Northridge)


"Institutions and Human Action: A Biological Approach"



Nov. 6
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)



Nov. 13
Eugene Callahan (Dept. of European Studies, Cardiff University)


"Reconciling Weber and Mises on Understanding Human Action"



Nov. 27 
Joel Mokyr (Economics Dept, Northwestern University)


"The Market for Ideas and the Origins of Economic Growth in Eighteenth Century Europe"
Dec. 4
Peter Lewin


"Property, Intellectual Property and the Justification of Property Rights"



Dec. 11 
Virgil Storr (Research Fellow, Econ Dept, GMU)


"The Market as a Social Space"





































Contact: 

anne.stubing@nyu.edu