Events
We host events that bring together policy experts, business leaders, and students. Learn more about our various series and upcoming events below.
Policy@McCombs
General audience discussions of current policy issues. Click here to see the speaker list.
Policy Lunch Seminar
Academic presentations on policy research from economists, statisticians, political scientists, etc. Click here to see the speaker list.
Causal Inference Seminar
Brings the best researchers from inside and outside UT Austin to present on causal methodology and applications to social science, economics, and policy. Click here to see the speaker list.
Engaging Orthodoxy
Not everything new is good. Click here to see the speaker list.
Upcoming Event
Debate: ‘Do open borders benefit humanity by reducing poverty and boosting the economy?’ with Bryan Caplan and Sohrab Ahmari
Location: Crum Auditorium, RRH 1.400 Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Caplan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders (co-authored with SMBC’s Zach Weinersmith), Labor Econ Versus the World, How Evil […]