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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.

Past Events

We The Living Reading Group

We are meeting several times over the academic year to discuss Ayn Rand’s first novel “We The Living”: Meeting 1, 01/30: Part 2, Chapters 1–5 Meeting 2, 03/05: Part 2, Chapters 6–10 Meeting 3, 03/26: Part 2, Chapters 11-13 Meeting 4, 04/16: Part 2, Chapters 14–17

April 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Externalities of Embryo Selection: Science, Ethics, Policy with Jonathan Anomaly

Jonathan Anomaly is the academic director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program in Quito, Ecuador. He also works with a company that offers embryo selection for polygenic traits. Prior to his current appointment, Professor Anomaly taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University. This talk is a book launch for the new edition […]

April 2, 2024 at 5:00 pm

We The Living Reading Group

We are meeting several times over the academic year to discuss Ayn Rand’s first novel “We The Living”: Meeting 1, 01/30: Part 2, Chapters 1–5 Meeting 2, 03/05: Part 2, Chapters 6–10 Meeting 3, 03/26: Part 2, Chapters 11-13 Meeting 4, 04/16: Part 2, Chapters 14–17

March 26, 2024 at 5:00 pm