Cosmopolis
Economic liberalism offers the promise of material welfare. However, some have suggested that it also gives rise to the offsetting costs of modernity, including the dislocation associated with a mobile society, the destruction of established firms, jobs and institutions, and the anomie of a materalistic society. This institute will examine these questions with the aid of a panel of distinguished scholars.
- Migration of People, George J. Borjas, Harvard, Kennedy School of Government
- Free Trade I, Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College, Economics
- Free Trade II, Douglas A. Irwin
- Property Rights, Richard E. Pipes, Harvard University, Economics
- In Praise of Commercial Culture, Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, Economics
- Creative Destruction, Tyler Cowen
- The Role of Institutions, Douglass C. North, Washington University, Economics
George Borjas is the foremost empirical scholar on immigration policy, and the author of Heavan's Door. Douglas Irwin is the author of Free Trade Under Fire and Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade. He also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Richard Pipes is one of the most preeminent scholarson Russian History. His most recent book is Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture. Tyler Cown is a noted author and a professor of Economics at George Mason University. He was the U.S. representative to UNESCO on mattersof cultural diversity. Douglass North is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 1993 he received the Nobel Prize in Economics.