9:55 am EDT / 6:55 am PDT / 2:55 pm BST. Introductory remarks• Scott Bauguess, University of Texas at Austin 10:00 a.m. Plenary 1 – The role of academic research in navigating the current crisis• Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor of the IMF• James Poterba, MIT and President of NBER• Jeremy Stein, Harvard University• Sheridan Titman, […]
The Conservative Case for Universal Health Insurance
President Trump has promised that the Republican Party will become the “Party of Health Care,” but Republicans are divided between those who oppose universal health insurance and those who support it. Why should conservatives care about achieving universal health care? What policies should they pursue to accomplish it? Can they join Democrats in forging a […]
Pablo Flores
Pablo Flores is the Senior Administrative Program Coordinator at the Salem Center for Policy within McCombs School of Business. He comes to McCombs with a history of working in Higher Education in various roles. Within the Salem Center he manages the administrative functions of the center, media strategy/content, drives engagement, and the centers portfolio of […]
Is Politics Downstream from Culture?
The Podcast of the Objectivism Program at the Salem Center in the University of Texas at Austin. Gregory Salmieri and others discuss issues of the day in light of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of reason, individualism, and capitalism.
Questioning the Sacrosanct: Is there a right to Protest?
A Free Speech Week Event. Americans today are divided on many issues. But one thing almost everyone seems to agree on, from BLM protestors to January 06 demonstrators, is that they have a right to take to the streets in protest. What if this is a mistake? What if there is no right to protest, at […]
Crypto Motherhood (with Hester Peirce)
Crypto assets are becoming mainstream. Tens of millions of Americans own them. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, affectionately known as crypto mom for her pioneering thoughts on how digital assets should be treated by regulators, joins this episode to discuss their meteoric rise, potential future treatment by the SEC, and other views in this now $2 […]
Emily Oster on “Cribsheet”
Emily Fair Oster is an American economist and bestselling author of “Expecting Better” and “Cribsheet”. Emily is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Brown University. P. Richard Hahn also joins the show as a guest interviewer. He is an associate professor of Statistics at ASU. His specific research interests include regression tree methods, […]
The Conservative Sensibility with George Will
The Salem Center is pleased to invite you to an event with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will. Will is the country’s most widely read political columnist, as well as its foremost conservative voice. His popular twice-weekly column for The Washington Post syndicate reaches 300 newspapers throughout the United States and Europe. He is a […]
Confidence Sets for Causal Orderings
Causal discovery procedures aim to deduce causal relationships among variables in a multivariate dataset. While various methods have been proposed for estimating a single causal model or a single equivalence class of models, less attention has been given to quantifying uncertainty in causal discovery in terms of confidence statements. The primary challenge in causal discovery […]
Data and Methods for Analyzing Special Interest Influence in Rulemaking
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