Presentations

Meaningful Economics

  • Adam Smith Week, Center for Public Choice and Market Process, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, March 2024.

  • Department of Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, March 2024.

  • Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, October 2023.

  • George Washington Forum, Ohio University, Athens, OH, September 2023.

Re-Classicalizing the Principles of Economics

  • Plenary Session, International Adam Smith Society Meetings, Tokyo, Japan, March 2024.

The Continuing Significance of Adam Smith’s Philosophy

  • Forum on the Economic and Legal Foundations of Capitalism, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University, Laguna Beach, CA, April 2022.

The Purpose of Property: Experimental Evidence on Adam Smith’s Insights

  • 5th Annual Adam Smith Lecture, Department of Economics, Boise State University, Boise, ID, April 2022.

The Primacy of Property

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Fort Lauderdale, FL, November 2022.

  • Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 2022.

Deirdre McCloskey and Rhetoric

  • Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 2022.

The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind

  • Indigenous Student Seminar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 2022-23.

  • Department of Economics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, February 2022.

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Houston, TX, November 2021.

  • Bastiat Society of Los Angeles, La Mirada, CA, July 2021.

  • Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, April 2021.

  • The Saurman Provocative Lecture Series, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, April 2021.

  • Mont Hamilton/Bastiat Society, San Jose, CA, April 2021.

  • Darling Law Library, Chapman University, Orange, CA, April 2021.

  • Invisible Hand Seminar, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, April 2021.

  • Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, March 2021.

  • Center for the Study of Economic Liberty, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 2021.

  • Sarasota Economics Club, Sarasota, FL, March 2021.

  • Salem Center for Policy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, November 2020.

  • Political Theory Project, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 2020.

  • Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, September 2020.

  • Department of Economics, New York University, NY, September 2020.

  • Institute for Humane Studies, Arlington, VA, September 2020.

  • Department of Economics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, February 2020.

  • Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, October 2019.

Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century

  • Ekonomická Univerzita v Bratislave, Slovakia, November 2021.

  • PPE Book Club, John Stuart Mill College, Amsterdam, June 2020.

  • Samford University, Birmingham, AL, February 2019.

How to Read Adam Smith

  • Forum on the Economic and Legal Foundations of Capitalism, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University, Laguna Beach, CA, September 2021.

What Did Adam Smith Mean? The Semantics of the Opening Key Principles in the Wealth of Nations

  • Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, March 2021.

The Meaning of Property in Things

  • Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 2019.

  • Center for the Study of Governance and Society, King’s College London, October 2018.

  • Risk Management Department, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, September 2018.

  • John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University, November 2017.

  • Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, May 2017.

  • Centre for Law and Philosophy, University of Surrey, May 2017.

  • Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage, April 2017.

  • Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Inaugural Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2017.

  • Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, October 2016.

  • Julian Simon Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT, June/August  2016.

The Conceptual Building Blocks of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

  • Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2018.

Vernon Smith's Model for How We Think about Economics

  • Adam Smith Week, College of Charleston, March 2018.

Adam Smith in the 21st Century Laboratory

  • Keynote Presentation, Prague Conference on Behavioral Science, April 2017.

  • Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave, Slovakia, April 2017.

  • Adam Smith Week, College of Charleston, March 2017.

Humanomics: A Moral Science of Economics

  • Conservative Institute of M.R. Štefánik, Bratislava, Slovakia, April 2017.

Why Behavioral Science, Or, What is an Experiment in Economics and Why We Do Them

  • Prague Conference on Behavioral Science, April 2017.

How We Think about Economics

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 2016.

Commerce Unbound: A Modern Promethean Story

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 2016.

  • Upton Miller Forum, Beloit College, November 2016.

Language and Cooperation in Hominin Scavenging

  • Departments of Philosophy and Economics, “Beliefs, Values, and Mind Experimental Workshop,” Monash University, October 2016.

  • Department of Economics, West Virginia University, September 2016.

  • Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage, May 2016.

  • O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom and the Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, February 2016.

  • Economic Science Association, North American Meetings, Dallas, TX, October 2015.

  • Lone Mountain Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center (Bozeman, MT), July-August  2015.

Humankind in Civilization’s Extended Order: A Tragedy, The First Part

  • Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law, February 2015.

Sentiments, Conduct, and Trust in the Laboratory

  • “Liberty and Justice in Theory and Practice,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Montreal, August  2015.

  • Department of Economics, University of Bergen, May 2014.

  • Department of Economics, Wofford College, Spartanburg, November 2013.

  • Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, May 2013.

  • Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage, March 2013.

  • Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, George Mason University, February 2013.

Further Towards a Theory of the Emergence of Property

  • Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Seminar, Departments of Economics and Philosophy, Northwestern University, April 2014.

  • Behavioral Research Insights through Experiments Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2013.

  • Lone Mountain Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT, May-June 2013.

The Emergence of Property as a Convention in the Laboratory

  • Plenary Speaker, Public Choice Society, 50th Anniversary Conference, New Orleans, March 2013.

  • Plenary Speaker, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, August  2012.

Fair and Impartial Spectators in Experimental Economic Behavior

  • Oxford University Press Conference for Philosophical Concepts Volume on Sympathy, University of Richmond, June 2012.

  • Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, April 2012.

  • Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University, April 2012.

An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture

  • Department of Economics, San José State University, May 2012.

  • Berkeley Center for Political Economy, Haas School of Business (joint with Economic History), University of California at Berkeley, April 2012.

  • Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, February 2012.

  • Department of Economics, University of East Anglia, February 2012.

  • Hightower Distinguished Lecturer in Accounting, Area of Accounting, Emory University, October 2011.

  • School of Politics & Economics, Claremont Graduate University, September 2011.

  • Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance, Baruch College, December 2010.

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, November 2010.

  • Department of Economics, Cal Poly State University, October 2010.

  • Lone Mountain Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT, August  2010.

  • Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education-Economic Institute, Prague, May 2010.

  • Experimental Economics Center, Georgia State University, February 2010.

  • Department of Economics, Florida State University, January 2010.

  • Department of Economics, University of Southern California, October 2009.

Workshop on Experimental Economics and Spontaneous Orders

  • Istituto Bruno Leoni, University of Turin, October 2011.

An Experiment on Protecting Intellectual Property

  • Gruter Institute Conference on Law, Institutions and Human Behavior, Squaw Valley, CA, May 2011.

  • Southern California Conference on Applied Microeconomics, Claremont McKenna College, April 2011.

The Territorial Foundations of Human Property

  • Lone Mountain Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT, August  2011.

  • Economic Science Association North American Meetings, Tucson, November 2010.

A Comparative Approach to Coordination: How Apes, Monkeys, and Humans Respond to an Assurance Game with Equivalent Procedures

  • Gruter Institute Conference on Law, Institutions and Human Behavior,” Squaw Valley, CA, May 2011, with Sarah Brosnan.

Workshop on Experimental Economics

  • Vilniaus Universiteto Ekonomikos Fakulteta, Vilnius, Lithuania, January 2011.

Using the Laboratory to Rationally Reconstruct the Rules of the Micro- and Macro-cosmos

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, November 2010.

Workshop on Experimental Economics

  • Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praza, Prague, May 2010.

Exchange, Theft, and the Social Formation of Property
An Experimental Inquiry into the Origins of Property Rights

  • Distinguished Visitor, Institute for Law & Economics, University of Minnesota Law School, March 2010.

  • Centre for Decision Research & Experimental Economics, University of Nottingham, November 2009.

  • Department of Economics, Loyola Marymount University, January 2009.

  • Department of Management and Strategy, University of New South Wales, December 2008.

  • Department of Economics, UC Irvine, December 2008.

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 2008.

Discovering How Socio-economic Orders Form in the Laboratory

  • Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College, Oxford University, November 2009.

  • Co-Keynote Address, International Economic Association Meeting, Washington, DC, June 2009.

How Undergraduates Can Teach Experts A Thing or Two about Competition

  • Invited Conference, Foundations and Limitations of an Economic Approach to Competition Law, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and TaxLaw, Munich, March 2009.

Workshop on Experimental Economics

  • Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave, Fulbright Senior Specialist, October 2008.

Contra Private Fairness

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2007.

  • Economic Science Association North American Meetings, Tucson, October 2007.

  • The Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Conference at Squaw Valley, CA, May 2007.

Exchange and Specialization as a Discovery Process

  • Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, October 2007.

  • Workshop in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, George Mason University, April 2007.

  • Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, April 2007.   

  • Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh, February 2007.

  • Department of Economics, Colby College, September 2006.

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 2005.

  • Economic Science Association Conference, Montreal, June 2005.

Experimental Gasoline Markets

  • Department of Economics, Wichita State University, April 2008.

  • Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, University of Maryland, November 2006.

  • Department of Economics, Emory University, December 2005.

  • Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, October 2005.

  • Department of Economics, Clemson University, September 2005.

  • Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, September 2004.

  • International Industrial Organization Conference, Chicago, April 2004.

  • Seminar at CIRANO, Montreal, April 2004.

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, November 2003.

  • Economic Science Association Conference, Tucson, October 2003.

  • Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, October 2003.

Language Games of Reciprocity

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Charleston, SC, November 2006.

Historical Property Rights, Sociality, and the Emergence of Impersonal Exchange in Long-distance Trade

  • Department of Economics, Florida State University, October 2006.

  • College of Law, Florida State University, October 2006.

Building a Market: From Personal to Impersonal Exchange

  • Workshop: “Resources, Institutions, and the Owner State,” University of Alaska Anchorage, August  2006.

  • Department of Economics, Miami University, April 2006.

  • Working Conferences on Free Enterprise: Values in Action, The Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, September 2005; January and June 2006.

Two Examples of Entrepreneurship and Experimental Economics

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Economics, March 2005.

Second Chance Offers versus Sequential Auctions: Theory and Behavior

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2004.

  • The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Decision Processes Research Program, April 2004.

Strategic Behavior and Hysteresis in Electricity Networks

  • Workshop on Experiments in Natural Resource Economics, Akureyri, Iceland, May 2004.

Experimental Economics and Antitrust: An Application to Gasoline Markets

  • Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, September 2003.

Auction Markets for Evaluations

  • Economic Science Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, June 2003.

Using Experimental Economics to Evaluate Simulation Predictions for Mergers

  • Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, May 2003.

Some New Features of Posted Price Markets on the Internet

  • Florida State University, Department of Economics, November 2002.

  • University of Massachusetts, Department of Resource Economics, April 2002.

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Economics, October 2001.

  • Ole Miss, Department of Economics, October 2000.

  • Purdue University, Department of Economics, September 2000.

Human Subject Experiments in Electric Power Research

  • Electricity Market Simulation Seminar, Electric Power Research Institute, Washington, DC, October 2002.

Discriminatory Price Auctions in Electricity Markets

  • Economic Science Association Session, Allied Social Science Associations Annual Convention, Atlanta, January 2002. 

Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations

  • University of Arkansas, Department of Economics, December 2001.

  • INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, November 2001.

  • George Washington University, Department of Economics, October 2001.

Market Power in Electricity Networks

  • Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, November 2000.

  • Workshop on Markets for Electricity Economics and Technology (MEET), Stanford University, August  2000.

How Applicable is the Dominant Firm Model of Price Leadership?

  • Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 2000.

Interactions of Automated Pricing Algorithms

  • 2nd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, EC’00, Minneapolis, October 2000.

Experimental Methods and Antitrust Policy

  • Regional Economic Science Association Meetings, Tucson, September 2000. 

Structural Features that Contribute to Market Power in Electric Power Networks

  • 33rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, January 2000.

Institutions, Information, and Behavior When Employing Software Agents in E-commerce

  • University of Arizona, MIS Department, September 1999.

Firm-Specific Cost Savings and the Exercise of Market Power

  • Economic Science Association fall meetings, October 1998.

Theory and Evidence on Market Power in Countercyclical Markups

  • Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, April 1998.

Market Power, Price Markups, and Capacity Investment under Uncertain Demand

  • The Econometric Society winter meetings, Chicago, January 1998.

  • Department of Justice, Antitrust Division March 1998.

Testing the New Keynesian Synthesis

  • Economic Science Association fall meetings, October 1996.

What Collusion? Unilateral Market Power as a Catalyst for Countercyclical Pricing

  • Economic Science Association spring meetings, April 1996.