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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.

Upcoming Event

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
We The Living Reading Group

Upcoming 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

In 7 Days March 26, 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

April 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm

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

March 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Energy Transition with Mark Mills

Mark is a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a contributing editor at the City Journal, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick school of engineering, and co-founding partner in Montrose Lane, an energy fund. He writes frequently for numerous publications (Wall Street Journal, Real Clear, Forbes TechCrunch, etc.). Mark was previously […]

February 8, 2024 at 4:30 pm

You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism with Bryan Caplan

Please join us online as we interview Bryan Caplan about his new collection of essays. Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. He has written The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, Selfish […]

February 6, 2024 at 2:30 pm