Past Speakers

Date	Speaker	Subject/Topic
November 14, 2019	Lyman Stone Research Fellow, Institute for Family Studies	The Boomers Ruined Everything
November 6, 2019	Benjamin Powell Director of the Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University	Socialism Sucks: Two Economics Drink their Way through the Unfree World
October 1, 2019	Joshua Hall Chair and Professor Center for Free Enterprise, West Virginia University	Economic Freedom: Tradeoffs or Free Lunches?
February 21, 2019	Tom Gilligan Ted and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University	The Hoover Institution: Improving the Human Condition
February 5, 2019	Beth Akers Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute	The Case against Free College
November 15, 2018	Michael C. Munger Professor of Political Science and Director of the PPE program at Duke University	Tomorrow 3.0: Transaction Costs in a Sharing Economy
November 13, 2018	Dan Griswald Senior Research Fellow and co-director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University	Tariffs in the Time of Trump
November 5, 2018	Kevin Fry Kevin and Susan Fry, Founders and Directors of Eden Ministries Inc. and Eden Children’s Village	Economic Transformation in Zimbabwe
March 6, 2018	Daniel Hannan Member of the EU Parliament	Brexit: The Road to Riches or Ruin?
February 22, 2018	Rebecca Tuvel Assist Professor of Philosophy, Rhodes College	The Ethics of Transracialism
February 23, 2017	Nicole Gelinas Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute	From 2008 to Trump: How Government's Response to the Financial Crisis Brought the West to Today's Political Crisis
October 26, 2016	Diana Furchtgott-Roth Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute	Disinherited: How Washington is Betraying America’s Young
October 20, 2016	Michael D. Tanner Senior Fellow, Cato Institute	Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis
September 8, 2016	Steve Forbes President of Forbes Media	How Capitalism Will Save Us
March 24, 2016	Art Laffer President of Laffer Associates and former economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan	Policies that Promote Economic Growth
April 20, 2016	Scott Winship Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute	So You Think You Know Inequality?
November 18, 2015	Stephen Offutt Assistant Professor of Development Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary	South Africa: A Century of Economic Change
November 11, 2015	Jacob Vigdor Professor of Economics, University of Washington	The Demographics and Economics of Immigration Policy
October 21, 2015	Richard Grant Professor of Economics, Lipscomb University	South Africa’s Unexpected Transition
March 26, 2015	Stephen Moore Chief Economist, Heritage Institute and former member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board	Policies that Promote Economic Growth
February 23, 2015	Jordan Ballor Senior Fellow, Acton Institute	The Ecology of a Market Economy
December 2, 2014	Niels Veldhuis President of the Fraser Institute	Canada’s Economic Turnaround
February 24, 2014	Robert Higgs Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute	Will Government Continue to Grow?
October 21, 2013	Casey Mulligan Professor of Economics, University of Chicago	The Redistribution Recession
September 11, 2013	Pierre Desrochers Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga	The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000 Mile Diet
March 7, 2013	William Ruger Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas State University	Freedom in the 50 States
February 18, 2013	Steven Horwitz Professor of Economics, St. Lawrence University	Do We Really Need a Central Bank?
February 4, 2013	Stephen Gohmann BB&T Distinguished Professor in Free Enterprise, University of Louisville	The Influence of Government Policies on the Number of Breweries in the US
October 15, 2012	Anne Bradley Vice President of Economic Initiatives, Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics	The Causes of Income Inequality
September 17, 2012	John C. Goodman President, National Center for Policy Research	The Rights and Wrongs of Health Care Reform
February 20 2012	Benjamin Powell Senior Economist, Beacon Hill Institute and Professor of Economics Suffolk University	An Economic Case for More Open Immigration
November 16, 2011	Lou Pavledes Former Director/CEO Civic Center Department, Detroit, MI	Ethics in Business and Government
September 12, 2011	David Henderson Professor of Economics, Naval Post Graduate School	Lessons not Learned from 9-11
March 21, 2011	Mark Thornton Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute	Selling Hard Drugs to Little Kids
October 18 2010	P.J. Hill Professor of Economics, Wheaton College (IL)	Is Capitalism Immoral?
October 22, 2009	Niger Innis National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality	The Fight for Affordable Energy is the True Final Frontier of the Civil Rights Revolution

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