As our mission statement says, “The Salem Center for Policy is dedicated to helping students and business leaders better understand the costs, benefits and consequences of policy decisions.” The weeks before a presidential election are when many Americans think most about policy, and discussions of the upcoming election often throw off more heat than light, […]
Ten Threats to Capitalism and the Rule of Law
A Policy@McCombs Event with Todd Zywicki. Todd Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center. In 2020-21 he served as the Chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]
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.
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 […]
Casey Mulligan on Prices and Federal Policies in Opioid Markets
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 […]
Economics of Cybersecurity
Offered in Spring 2021.
Credit Access and Determinants of Entrepreneurial Success
This initiative is a joint effort between scholars in order to test the importance and factors of entrepreneurial success. Main Researcher William Fuchs Professor William Fuchs (Finance) is working on a number of projects trying to understand the impact of access to credit on the formation of new business. Salem Center support will help the […]
Larry Harris on the GameStop market frenzy
We are hosting a special Policy@McCombs on the GameStop market frenzy. Expert on these issues, Professor Larry Harris from USC will join us to explain what happened last week and discuss the market and regulatory implications moving forward. Professor Harris is the author of “Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners” and currently serves as lead […]
Richard Hahn: COVID-19 Interview
Richard Hahn is an associate professor of Statistics at ASU. He develops probability models and computational techniques for applied data analysis, with a focus on the behavioral, social, and health sciences. His specific research interests include regression tree methods, causal inference from observational data, and foundations of statistics. Hear what Richard Hahn, professor of Statistics, […]
The New Geography of Jobs
In “The New Geography of Jobs”, Moretti explores individual mobility and the new dynamics of jobs in American cities, arguing that for each job in the software, technology, and life-sciences industries, five new jobs are indirectly created in the local economy. Enrico Moretti is the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics at the University […]