ECONOMICS READING GROUP

SCHEDULE: FALL 2001

 

 

Friday September 14, 2001 (4:00-5:00, Williams School Room 220)

 

Irene Ramirez, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Finance, Universidad de Valencia, Spain

"The Separating Role Of Collateral Requirements In Credit Markets With Asymmetric Information." (Capra, Fernandez, Ramirez)

 

 

Friday September 21, 2001 (4:00-5:00, Williams School Room 220)

 

            Art Goldsmith, Department of Economics, Washington and Lee University.

                        Wages And The Composition Of Experience.” (Veum)

 

 

Friday September 28, 2001 (4:00-5:00, Williams School Room 220)

           

James Kahn, Department of Economics and Director of Environmental Studies Program,  Washington and Lee University.

First World Agricultural Subsidies And Third World Sustainable Development.” (Gildo Sá Albuquerque)

 

 

Friday October 5, 2001

 

John Turner, Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Virginia (W&L graduate: Economics and Mathematics).

"The Patent Renaissance."

 

 

Friday October 12, 2001

 

NO MEETING (reading days)

 

 

Friday October 19, 2001

           

 

 

Friday October 26, 2001

           

NO MEETING (Parents Weekend)

 

 

Friday November 2, 2001 (4:00-5:00, Williams School Room 220)

           

Alexandre Rivas, University Of Amazonas (Brazil).

                        Topic to be announced

 

Friday November 9, 1998 (4:00-5:00, Williams School Room 220)

 

Mark Rush, Department of Politics, Washington and Lee University.

The Impact of Redistricting in Comparative Perspective: Implications for the Electoral Reform Debate.”

           

 

Friday November 16, 2001

 

No Meeting:  (Meeting of the Southern Economic Association).

 

 

Friday November 23, 2001

 

            NO MEETING (Thanksgiving)

 

 

Friday November 30, 2001 (12:00-1:00, Williams School Room 220)

 

Eduardo A. Velasques, Department of Politics, Washington and Lee University."

Systems, Invisible Hands, and other Useful Deceptions:  Adam Smith on the Utility of Utility"

 

Reading:  Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Pt. IV,

pp. 179-93.

 

 

Friday, December 7, 2001

 

            NO MEETING (Last Day of Classes)