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Scott W. Bauguess
Dr. Bauguess is a Visiting Senior Scholar Salem Center and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business.
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.
Lecture #3 Marxist Economics
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. These four lectures on Marxism, delivered in the mid-80s a few years before the collapse of the Soviet bloc, distill decades of study of Marxist ideas with great insight and humor. Lecture 1 covers the Marxism’s intellectual precursors; lecture 2 […]
John Cochrane: COVID-19 Interview
John H. Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct scholar of the CATO Institute. Before joining Hoover, Cochrane was a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and earlier at […]
USG 303 – Trade-offs, Incentives/Data
Offered in Fall 2021.
Does Texas Value Reliable Energy?
Alex Epstein (author of the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels) and an advocate of the importance of “cheap, plentiful, reliable energy” and Salem Center senior Scholar Gregory Salmieri discuss how Texas’s blackouts illustrate the importance of reliability in an energy source, and respects in which Texas’s energy policies may under-value reliability.
A Bayesian Semiparametric Approach to Treatment Effect Variation with Noncompliance
Jared Fisher (BYU) joins us to discuss estimating varying treatment effects in randomized trials with noncompliance is inherently challenging since variation comes from two separate sources: variation in the impact itself and variation in the compliance rate. In this setting, existing Frequentist and ML-based methods are quite flexible but are highly sensitive to the so-called […]
Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
Please join the Salem Center as we welcome Dr. Ilya Somin to discuss how broadening opportunities for foot voting can greatly enhance political liberty for millions of people around the world. People can vote with their feet through international migration, choosing where to live within a federal system, and by making decisions in the private […]