The Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) Research Seminar encourages and explores the latest research by scholars. Our PPE Research Seminar is a vehicle for scholars and graduate students to discuss and receive feedback on research.
The PPE Research Seminar is held every other Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters.
To engage our growing international audience, we have decided to maintain our virtual Zoom format for the 2021–2022 academic year. There will be no in-person seminars at this time.
If you are interested in presenting your research during the 2021–2022 academic year, please email EconomicLiberty@asu.edu with a brief abstract for review.
Seminar Schedule
2021–2022
Every other Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. via Zoom
* Note: The February 4 seminar will take place from 2:30–4 p.m.
Fall 2021
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sep 24 | Vlad Tarko, University of Arizona | The Variety of Regulatory Regimes |
| Fri, Oct 8 | Kaitlyn Woltz, Claremont McKenna College | Wardens, Political Scapegoating, and the Role of Prison Journalism |
| Fri, Oct 22 | Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, Goldsmiths, University of London | Richard Musgrave and the Art of Tax Reform |
| Fri, Nov 5 | Donna Feir, University of Victoria | The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada |
| Fri, Nov 19 | Dominic "Nick" Parker, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Per-capita Payments and Tribal Governance |
Spring 2022
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Feb 4 * | Peter de Marneffe, ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | The Significance of Injustice |
| Fri, Feb 18 | Emily Skarbek, Brown University | Analytical Narratives in Political Economy |
| Fri, Mar 4 | Ilia Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh | The Ostroms in Beijing |
| Fri, Mar 18 | Michael Moehler, Virginia Tech | Polycentrism, Diversity, Complexity, and Social Order |
| Fri, Apr 1 | Péter Galbács, Budapest Business School | Historical Methods in Economic Methodology |
| Fri, Apr 15 | Andrew Humphries, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | Adam Smith on Commutative Justice, Separation of Powers, and the Right of Revolution |
2020–2021
Every Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. via Zoom
Fall 2020
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sep 11 | Ross Emmett, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | Orthodox Economics and the Human Sciences |
| Fri, Sep 18 | Andrew Smith, University of Liverpool | Informal Institutions as Moderators of the Effectiveness of Formal Institutions in Discouraging Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: How Changes in Norms and Values Interacted with U.S. Constitutional Limits |
| Fri, Sep 25 | Luc Bovens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | How Demographically Sorted is the US Voting-Age Population? |
| Fri, Oct 2 | Henry Thomson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Controlling the Secret Police and Maintaining Social Order in Socialist Central and Eastern Europe |
| Fri, Oct 9 | Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia | The Community of Advantage |
| Fri, Oct 16 | None | |
| Fri, Oct 23 | James Strickland, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Higher-Law Lobbying at Constitutional Conventions |
| Fri, Oct 30 | Saura Masconale, University of Arizona | Corporations and Moral Sentiments |
| Fri, Nov 6 | Voluntary Governance Conference | |
| Fri, Nov 13 | Erwin Dekker, Erasmus University of Rotterdam Pavel Kuchar, University of Bristol |
The Epistemological Break in Economics: What Does the Public Know about the Economy and What do Economists Know about the Public? |
| Fri, Nov 20 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy? |
Spring 2021
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Jan 22 | Winter Institute for the History of Economic Thought | |
| Fri, Jan 29 | "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit" 100th Anniversary Symposium | |
| Fri, Feb 5 | Philip Arthur, ASU School of Sustainability | Escaping Paternalism: A Response |
| Fri, Feb 12 | Tyler DesRoches, ASU School of Sustainability | When is Green Nudging Ethically Permissible? |
| Fri, Feb 19 | School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership Annual Spring Conference (Canceled) | |
| Fri, Feb 26 | Michiru Nagatsu, University of Helsinki | Non-paternalistic justification of nudges: a preference-constructivist approach |
| Fri, Mar 5 | Jennifer Jhun, Duke University | Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics |
| Fri, Mar 12 | Spring Break (Canceled) | |
| Fri, Mar 19 | Steven McMullen, Hope College | Can Baby Bonds Address Historic Racial Injustice? |
| Fri, Mar 26 | Glory Liu, Harvard University | Adam Smith, History, and the Meaning of Das Adam Smith Problem in the Progressive Era |
| Fri, Apr 2 | Stefanie Haeffele, George Mason University | Crisis as a Source of Social Capital: Adaptation and Formation of Social Capital during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Fri, Apr 9 | Brianne Wolf, Michigan State University | No Man is an Island Entire of Itself: Adam Smith on Homoeconomicus, Autonomy, and Judgment |
| Fri, Apr 16 | Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University | Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics |
| Fri, Apr 23 | Péter Galbács, Budapest Business School | Lucas's way to his monetary theory of large-scale fluctuations |
2019–2020
Every Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. in CPCOM 480
Fall 2019
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sep 6 | Ross Emmett, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | The Cautious Optimist: T. Robert Malthus on Population, Civilization and Progress |
| Fri, Sep 13 | Paul Dragos Aligica, George Mason University | Polycentricity and Modus Vivendi |
| Fri, Sep 20 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Anti-Corruption in Policy and Practice |
| Fri, Sep 27 | Mary-Elizabeth Xaevier, ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | Well-Being in Economics: Finding the Threshold of Well-Being |
| Fri, Oct 4 | Stefan Kolev, University of Erfurt | The Roads to Mont Pèlerin: Parallel Quests for Order in “Old Chicago” and Freiburg |
| Fri, Oct 11 | Amin Sabzehzar, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | The Role of Religion in Online Prosocial Lending |
| Fri, Oct 18 | David Schmidtz, University of Arizona | Rediscovering Moral Science |
| Fri, Oct 25 | Rebecca Livernois, University of British Columbia | Epistemic Ascriptions and the Actualization of Externalities |
| Fri, Nov 1 | Robert Kirsch, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | Confronting “Imbecile Institutions:” Populism in the United States |
| Fri, Nov 8 | Joshua Kane, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | SYNERGIES of LIBERTY: Defense Expenditure and Industrial Take-Off During the Second Hundred Years War |
| Fri, Nov 15 | Mehrdad Esfahani, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | Lifetime Inequality Across US and Europe |
| Fri, Nov 22 | Scott Scheall, ASU College Of Integrative Sciences and Arts | F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics |
Spring 2020
| Date | Presenter | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Jan 24 | Winter Institute for the History of Economic Thought | ||
| Fri, Jan 31 | Pedro Garcia Duarte, University of São Paulo | Frank Ramsey’s Place in the History of Mathematical Economics | |
| Fri, Feb 7 | Rodney Machokoto, ASU School of Community Resources and Development | Economics of Social Change — Systemic Social Change | |
| Fri, Feb 14 | Valery Dzutsati, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | The Logic of Violent Action against Secession: Security, Redistribution, and Culture | |
| Fri, Feb 21 | Michael Gifford, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | Truth, Pragmatism, and Politics: Cheryl Misak on the Relevance of a Peircean Conception of Truth to Political Theory |
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| Fri, Feb 28 | School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership Annual Spring Conference | Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America | |
| Fri, Mar 6 | Ecem Okan, Center for the Study of Economic Liberty | Smith's History of Europe: The Extent of Hume's Influence | |
| Fri, Mar 13 | Spring Break | ||
| Fri, Mar 20 | Haeyoung Lim, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies (via Zoom) | Transparency, Institution, and Investment: The Case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) |
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| Fri, Mar 27 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies (via Zoom) | Measuring Judicial Corruption | |
| Fri, Apr 10 | M. Nazim Tamkoç, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business (via Zoom) | Production Complexity, Talent Misallocation and Development | |
| Fri, Apr 17 | Ahmet Altinok, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business (via Zoom) | Dynamic Many-to-One Matching | |
| Fri, Apr 24 | Jennifer Jhun, Duke University (Canceled) | TBA | |
2018–2019
Every Monday from noon–1:30 p.m. in CPCOM 480
Spring 2019
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Jan 14 | Scott Scheall, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | Ignorance and the Incentive Structure Facing Policymakers |
| Mon, Jan 21 | Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observed | |
| Mon, Jan 28 | Péter Galbács, Budapest Business School | Some Notes on Robert Lucas’s Notes: The Lucas Papers in Methodological Perspective |
| Mon, Feb 4 | Ross Emmett, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | Revisiting Frank Knight's "The Ethics of Competition" |
| Mon, Feb 11 | Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College | The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution |
| Mon, Feb 18 | Henry Thomson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Lord, Peasant... and Tractor? Landed Elites, Agricultural Mechanization and Democracy |
| Mon, Feb 25 | Helen Baxendale, University of Oxford | Teach for America as Institutional Subversive: The role of New Agents in American Education Reform |
| Mon, Mar 4 | Spring Break | |
| Mon, Mar 11 | Tyler DesRoches, ASU School of Sustainability | Value Commitment, Resolute Choice, and the Normative Foundation of Behavioral Welfare Economics |
| Mon, Mar 18 | Chen Liang, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | IT-Enabled Monitoring and Labor Contracting in Online Platforms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| Mon, Mar 25 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies (Canceled) | TBA |
| Mon, Apr 1 | Bryan Leonard, ASU School of Sustainability | Property Rights and Path Dependence: 19th century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes |
| Mon, Apr 8 | Amir Sabzehzar, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | Dynamic Shifting in Lending Priorities in Prosocial Crowdfunding Platform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
PPE seminars via Zoom
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*Note: Please allow 48 hours before receiving your first PPE email.