PARTICIPANTS

Nils Karlson, John Taylor, Michael Bernstam, Steven Blitz, Michael Boskin, Nicolas Caramp, Jake Carney, John Cochrane, Steven Davis, Chris Dauer, Randi Dewitty, Katrina Dudley, Sebastian Edwards, Susanne Enger, Christopher Erceg, David Fedor, Andrew Filardo, Christopher Ford, Jared Franz, Vance Ginn, Tyler Goodspeed, Paul Gregory, Thomas Hebling, Nicholas Hope, Peter Ireland, Douglas Irwin, Bob Joss, Ken Judd, Mickey Levy, Dennis Lockhart, Axel Merk, Eva Meyersson Milgrom, Dinsha Mistree, David Mitch, Casey Mulligan, Athanasios Orphanides, Elena Pastorino, Ned Prescott, Josh Rauh, Pierre Siklos, Nitish Sinha, Christine Strong, Jack Tatom, James Van Horne, Barry Weingast 

ISSUES DISCUSSED

Nils Karlson, founding president and CEO of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, discussed “Statecraft and Classical Liberal Reforms," a topic based on his book Statecraft and Liberal Reform in Advanced Democracies.

John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

To read the slides, click here

WATCH THE SEMINAR
Topic: “Statecraft and Classical Liberal Reforms"
Start Time: February 2, 2022, 12:15 PM PT

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