Free-Market Environmentalism by Carrie Kerekes

I am pleased to announce that Carrie Kerekes will be the second speaker of the 2015-2016 Liberty and Economic Freedom Speaker Series.  Dr. Kerekes will present “Free-Market Environmentalism” on Thursday, November 5^th at 7:30 PM in Isaacs Auditorium. 

Dr. Carrie B. Kerekes is an Associate Professor of Economics at Florida Gulf Coast University.  She received her Ph.D. in Economics from West Virginia University in 2008.  Her research interests are in the areas of applied microeconomics; public economics; and economic development, with an emphasis on institutions and private property rights.  Dr. Kerekes has published several articles in refereed journals including the Journal of Law and Economics, the American Law and Economics Review, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, the Cato Journal and the Review of Law and Economics.  Dr. Kerekes regularly attends the meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) and the Southern Economic Association (SEA).  Dr. Kerekes serves on the Executive Board of APEE and also serves on the Board of the Freedom and Virtue Institute (FVI).  She has participated in seminars sponsored by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), Liberty Fund, and the Charles Koch Foundation.  Dr. Kerekes conducted field research on land titling in rural Peru in 2007.

My new website: Broadway Economics!

Link here

Visit my new website, BroadwayEconomics.com.  The site has over 30 songs from musicals that all illustrate economic concepts.  New songs are being added monthly, so be sure to check back often!

You can also follow BroadwayEconomics on Twitter: @broadwayecon

SU Crusader story covering David Kendall visit

Link here

Really nice write-up in the student newspaper!  Excerpt:

Kendall explained, “Real capitalism has four tenants…the first is private property, the second, which is the heart and soul of capitalism, is called voluntary exchange…the third tenant is personal freedom and the fourth principle is just law.”

Video of my interview of David Kendall

The 1-hour video is here!  Watch below or click here to watch through YouTube.

David Kendall visits Susquehanna

David Kendall visited Susquehanna today!  He presented "Morality and Capitalism" at 7:30 PM, but was busy all day.  He had a chance to meet with students during a class and at a meet-and-greet session.  He was also "On the Mark" (on the local radio show).

Here is a link to his radio appearance.  (It is great!)

Here are some pictures of Dr. Kendall meeting with students and with me at the speech.

Making your own sandwich and gains from trade

Vox has a great video about a person who creates his own sandwich.  It takes 6 months and costs $1,500.

We sometimes forget how much better off our lives are because of trade.  This video does a great job reminding us there are incredibly large gains from trade!

My new article on using monetary incentives when teaching

Recently published in the Journal of Economic Education.

Abstract:

Using 641 principles of economics students across four universities, the authors examine whether providing monetary incentives in a prisoner's dilemma game enhances student learning as measured by a set of common exam questions. Subjects either play a two-player prisoner's dilemma game for real money, play the same game with no money at stake (i.e., play a hypothetical version), or are in a control group where no game is played. The authors find strong evidence that students who played the classroom game for real money earned higher test scores than students who played the hypothetical game or where no game was played. Their findings challenge the conventional wisdom that monetary incentives are unnecessary in classroom experiments.