CPET - Alex G. McKenna Economic Education Series (MEES)

Past Lectures

The Center for Political and Economic Thought is pleased to provide a list of the past lectures presented at the Alex G. McKenna Economic Education Lecture Series. To easily navigate through and locate past lectures, simply click the desired lecture academic year below.

Lecture Academic Year
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2010-2011	2009-2010	2008-2009	2007-2008	2006-2007	2005-2006
2004-2005	2003-2004	2002-2003	2001-2002	2000-2001	1999-2000
1998-1999	1997-1998	1996-1997	1995-1996	1994-1995	1993-1994
1992-1993	1991-1992	1990-1991	1989-1990	1987-1988	1986-1987

Note: In some cases, the lecture may be available for download (in text format) online. If this is the case, the Lecture Topic will be listed as a hyperlink below. If you are interested in an article not available online, please click here to fill out a contact form and request the article.

Academic Lecture Year 2008 - 2009 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
09-10-2008	Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal	A Survey of Latin American Liberty in 2008	Download
10-22-2008	Dr. Susan Laury, Georgia State University	Insurance Purchase Decisions for Disaster - Type Risks: Using Laboratory Experiments to Inform Policy	Download
02-04-2009	Dr. Tailia Bar, Cornell University	Quest for Knowledge and Pursuit of Grades: Information, Course Selection and Grade Inflation	Download
03-11-2009	Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal	Fiscal Follies: The Politics of "Stimulus" and Bailouts	Download

Academic Lecture Year 2007 - 2008 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
09-12-2007	Dr. PJ Hill, Wheaton College	The Not So Wild, Wild West	Unavailable
11-07-2007	Dr. Rajdeep Grewal, Pennsylvania State University	Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, and Shareholder Value: The Moderating Role of Satisfaction Strength	Download
02-06-2008	Dr. Burt Folsom, Hillsdale College	How the Income Tax Changed American History	Download
03-26-2008	Dr. Jay W. Richards, Acton Institute	Myths Christians Believe about Wealth and Poverty	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 2006 - 2007 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
09-20-2006	Dr. Paul Moreno, Hillsdale College	How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Federalism	Unavailable
09-13-2006	Dr. Jeff Miron, Boston University	Libertarian Land: The Case for Minimal Government,	Unavailable
02-07-2007	Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Arizona State University	Beyond Panaceas: The Importance of Institutional Diversity, Indiana University	Unavailable
03-14-2007	Dr. Jared Bernstein and Dr. Richard Burkhauser	Debate: Is a Minimum Wage Increase Necessary?	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 2005 - 2006 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Dwight R. Lee, University of Georgie and Dr. Kenneth Stone, University of Iowa	A Debate on the Merits of Wal-Mart	Unavailable
Not Listed	Mr. William W. Beach, Director of Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation	Public Policy in the Age of Entitlements: How the Coming Financial Crises in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Will Fundamentally Change Politics and Public Policy	Unavailable
Not Listed	Mr. Christopher DeMuth, President, American Enterprise Institute	Unlimited Government	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Michael Szenberg, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Chair of Economics and Finance Department, Lublin School of Business	Globalization, Technology, and Three Societal Goals	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 2004 - 2005 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Robert Dwyer, University of Cincinnati	Buyer-Seller Relationships That Work, Professor of Marketing	Unavailable
Not Listed	Mr. John G. Quigley, Visiting Professor of Finance, Princeton University, Managing Partner of Nasau Capital	Venture Capital in 2004: The Real Deal	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Linda Babcock, Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University	Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Francis X. Dieboldy, Professor of Economics, Finance and Statistics, University of Pennsylvania	The Outlook for Interest Rates and the Macroeconom	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 2003 - 2004 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Henry Grabowski, Professor of Economics and Director of the Program in Pharnaceuticals and Health Economics, Duke University	Innovation and Access to Medicines for Orphan Diseases	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. James Gwartney, Professor of Economics and Policy, Florida State University	Economic Freedom and Cross-Country Differences in Income and Growth	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. James Kellaris, Professor of Marketing, University of Cincinnati	Confessions of a Jingle Scientist: On the Inportance of Trivial Research	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Edmund S. Phelps, Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University	How Corporatism Cramps Dynamism and Dulls Prosperity in Continental Europe McVickar	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 2002 - 2003 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Adam Lerrick, The Friends of Allan Meltzer Chair, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University	A New Approach to Development Aid: Changing the Incentives	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Patrick Conway, Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Should the International Monetary Fund Be Liquidated?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Gene Grossman, Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics, Princeton University	Trade and The Environment: Friends or Foes?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Daniel Benjamin, Professor and Senior Research Scholar, Clemson University	Myths of Recycling	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 2001 - 2002 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Neil Wallace, Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University	A Virtue of Uniform International Currency	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Charles W. Calomiris, Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise, Columbia University School of Business	Emerging Market Banks: The Achilles Heel of Liberalization	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Charles I. Plosser, Dean and John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester	Monetary Policy: A Shadow Perspective	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Clive W.J. Granger, Chancellor's Associates Chair in Economics, University of California, San Diego.	The Effect of Uncertanity on Economic Policy	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 2000 - 2001 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics, Columbia University.	After the Seattle Debacle: What Next for Free Trade?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Hal R. Varian, Dean, School of Information Management Systems, University of California at Berkeley.	Economic Forces in the Network Economy	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Stanley W. Black, Professor of Economics, The University of North Carolina.	From Wirtschaftswunder to Kaltstart: Fifty Years of the German Economy	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. James Walker, Professor of Economics, Indiana University	Institutions for Facilitating Cooperation	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1999 - 2000 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Anna J. Schwartz, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.	Earmarks of a Lender of Last Resort	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Stephen P. Zeldes, Benjamin Rosen Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University	Privatizing Social Security: Risk and Return	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Walter C. Labys, Saint Vincent Prep School Class of 1955, Professor and Benedum Distinguished Scholar, West Virginia University	Can World Market Volatility Upset the U.S. Economy	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Vernon L. Smith, Professor of Economics, the University of Arizona	Personal Vs Impersonal Exchange McClelland	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1998 - 1999 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Jeremy Siegel, Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Are Stocks Still Right for the Long-Run?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Joseph Terza, Saint Vincent College Class of 1964, Associate Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University	Analyzing the Effects of Public Policy Using Non-Experimental Data: Applications In Health Economics	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Robert Shiller, Yale University	Risks to Our Income in the Long Term	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1997 - 1998 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. David R. Henderson, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution and Associate Professor of Economics, Naval Postgraduate School	Government: Don't Just Stand There, Undo Something	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Richard Cyert, President Emeritus and Richard M. and Mary Aret S Cyert, Professor of Economics and Management, Carnegie- Mellon University	The Executive Compensation Controversy	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Bruce Yandle,Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics and Branch Banking and Trust Scholar, Clemson University	Searching for Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Harvey Rosen, John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy, Princeton University	Do Taxes Affect Entrepreneurs' Investments?	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1996 - 1997 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University	Rules Versus Discretion: Argentina Versus Mexico	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Richard E Wagner, Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University	Complexity, Governance And Economic Policy	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Kajal Lahiri, Economics Professor and Chair SUNY at Albany	Welfare Reform for The Disabled	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Robert A. Mundell, Professor of Economics, Columbia University	The International Monetary System In The 21ST Century: Could Gold Make A Comeback?	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1995 - 1996 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Richard V. Burkhauser, Professor of Economics Maxwell School, Syracuse University	Providing a Living Wage: Why Increases In the Minimum Wage are No Longer the Answer for Helping the Working Poor	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. David R. Henderson, Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Senior Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution	Government Intervention In Health Care: Savior or Villain	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Donald J. Mullineaux, DuPont Chair in Banking and Financial Services, University of Kentucky	Is Bill Gates Right: Is Banking A Dinosaur?	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1994 - 1995 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Terry Anderson, Montana State University, Professor of Economics Senior Associate of the Political Economy Research Center	The Market and The Environment: The Carrot vs. The Stick	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Robert Tollison, George Mason University, Duncan Black Professor of Economics	Externalities and Internalities	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Fred Singer, President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project	Stratospheric Ozone: Politically Correct and Other Views	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Richard Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Prof. of Meterology	Science and Politics: Global Warming and Eugenics	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Richard W. Tresch, Associate Professor and Chairperson of Economics, Boston College	Welfare Reform: Shared Views and Disagreements	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1993 - 1994 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Michael Parkin, University of Western Ontario, Professor of Economics	Clinton's Fiscal Policy: A First Semester Assignment	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Burton Malkiel, Princeton University, Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics	Investment Strategies for the Remainder of the 90's	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Karen Vaughn, George Mason University, Professor of Economics	Did We Learn th Right Lessons From the Fall of Communism?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Frederic Mishkin, Columbia University, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics	Preventing Financial Crisis	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1992 - 1993 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Patricia Danzon, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Cella Moth Professor	Health Care Reform: A Review of the Options	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Robert Barro, Harvard University, Professor of Economics	Presidential Economics	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Richard McKenzie, University of California, Walter Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society	America: What Went Right in the 1980's	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Rachel McCulloch, Brandeis University, Rosen Family Professor of Economics	Foreign Investment in the US: Source of Strength or Sign of Weakness?	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1991 - 1992 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Yale Brozen,Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Emeritus Professor of Business Economics	The Most Inguitous Tax?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Ronald Hansen, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester, Associate Dean	Deregulation vs. Reregulation: The Case of Medical Technologies	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Gordon Tullock, University of Arizona, Karl Eller Professor of Economics and Political Science	The Costs of Regulation and the Benefits of Deregulation	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Kevin Sontheimer, University of Pittsburgh, Chairperson Department of Economics	An Ethical and Moral Evaluation of of Private Property and Market Freedom	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1990 - 1991 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Peter B. Kenen, Princeton University, Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance	Foreign Investment in the US: Should we be Concerned?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Ryan Amacher, Clemson University, Dean, College of Commerce and Industry	Western Experiences with Privatization: Are There Lessons for Eastern Europe?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Murray Weidenbaum, Director/Washington University, Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor	The Consumer Stake in Deregulation Center for the Study of American Business	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Walter Williams, George Mason University, John Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics	The Legimate Role of Government in a Free Society	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Emanuel Savas, University of New York, Baruch College	Privatization: A Worldwide Movement City	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1989 - 1990 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	None	No lectures available for this academic lecture year.	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1988 - 1989 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	None	No lectures available for this academic lecture year.	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1987 - 1988 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Anne O. Krueger, Stanford University, Professor of Economics	Protectionism: US Firms and Foreign Competition	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Rudiger Donbusch, MIT, Ford International Professor of Economics	Third World Debt: The US and the Banks	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Charles Kindleberger, MIT, Ford International Professor of Economics	Is There An Impending World Depression?	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. William Poole, Brown University, Professor of Economics	Financial Implications of the US Trade Deficit	Unavailable

Academic Lecture Year 1986 - 1987 (return to top)

Lecture Date	Speaker(s)	Lecture Topic	Download Audio
Not Listed	Dr. Gary S. Becker, Professor, University of Chicago	Pressure Groups and Political Power	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Bennett T. McCallum, Carnegie-Mellon University, Professor of Economics	Why is Monetary Policy Important	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. James M. Buchanan, George Mason University, Holbert L. Harris University Professor	Government Failure, Market Failure	Unavailable
Not Listed	Dr. Allan Meltzer, Carnegie-Mellon University, John M. Olin Professor of Political Economy	Monetary Reform: Domestic and International	Unavailable

Alex G. McKenna Economic Education Series (MEES)

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