Casey B. Mulligan is an American economist and author. He is a Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. From 2018 to 2019 he served as the chief economist of the Council of Economic Advisors at The White House. Casey will join us to talk about his research on “Prices and Federal Policies in […]
Big Tech & Lessons from the Energy Crisis
Show Notes Big Tech Salem Center events on the Big Tech: Is Big Tech Too Big? Additional notes/context/links: Steve mentioned Facebook’s role in violence in Myanmar. Here’s more detail on Facebook’s role in inciting the violence from this NY Times article. One of Greg’s talks on free speech Electricity Crisis Salem Center events on the Texas Electricity […]
USG 303 – Trade-offs, Incentives/Data
Offered in Fall 2021.
The Minimum Wage, Fringe Benefits, and Worker Welfare
Jeffrey Clemens, Associate Professor of Economics, UCSD Link to Paper This paper explores the relationship between the minimum wage, the structure of employee compensation, and worker welfare. We advance a conceptual framework that describes the conditions under which a minimum wage increase will alter the provision of fringe benefits, alter employment outcomes, and either increase […]
Woke-ademia with John Butler
John Sibley Butler holds the J. Marion West Chair for Constructive Capitalism in the Graduate School of Business (Department of Management) at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Conservative Sensibility with George Will
The Salem Center is pleased to invite you to an event with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will. Will is the country’s most widely read political columnist, as well as its foremost conservative voice. His popular twice-weekly column for The Washington Post syndicate reaches 300 newspapers throughout the United States and Europe. He is a […]
The Conservative Case for Universal Health Insurance
President Trump has promised that the Republican Party will become the “Party of Health Care,” but Republicans are divided between those who oppose universal health insurance and those who support it. Why should conservatives care about achieving universal health care? What policies should they pursue to accomplish it? Can they join Democrats in forging a […]
Ken Judd: When Will the Fed Join the Third Millennium?
Policy@McCombs: Monday October 5th, 4-5:30pm When Will the Fed Join the Third Millennium? The U.S. Government and most businesses use powerful computing tools, but the Federal Reserve stands out as one government agency that has rejected modern computational tools. It is easy to document this description, but difficult to find good reasons for these gaps. […]
Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Discrimination and Self-Censorship
Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He will join Salem Center Senior Scholar Richard Lowery for a discussion on Academic Freedom. High profile incidents of campus illiberalism are often brushed off as spirited exceptions to the rule that academic freedom is safe. Examples include the mob violence directed against […]
Tom Gilligan on Stakeholder Capitalism
Thomas W. Gilligan is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Gilligan served as the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution from the fall of 2015 through the fall of 2020. He is a scholar in economics and political science.