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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force Meeting
The launch of Hoover’s Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity was on October 30, 2008. At a dinner, Tad and Dianne Taube Director John Raisian introduced task force members Terry Anderson (co-chair), Gary Libecap (co-chair), Richard Epstein, Stephen Haber, James Huffman, Scott Kieff, Jonathan Macey, James Robinson, and Henry Smith.
The Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity aims to investigate the philosophical, historical, legal, and economic foundations of property rights through scholarship and collaborative research among an interdisciplinary group of scholars that includes economists and legal experts. Together, this team will explore the issue of property rights in a contemporary context. Members will examine how secure property rights help foster economic development, encourage natural resource stewardship, advance investment in intellectual and physical capital, and encourage sound business practices while promoting liberty and individual responsibility.
Policy Seminar with Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, focused on a global history of several pandemics and discussed “1918, 1957, 2020: Big Pandemics and their Economic Consequences."
Policy Seminar with Mickey Levy and Peter Ireland
Policy Seminar with Mickey Levy, Chief Economist, Americas and Asia at Berenberg Capital Markets, and Peter Ireland, the Murray and Monti Professor in the Economics Department at the Morrissey College of Arts & Science at Boston College.
Policy seminar on the Guardians of Finance: Making Them Work for Us
Policy seminar on the Guardians of Finance: Making Them Work for Us
Guest Speaker: Ross Levine (Professor of Economics at Brown University, Director of the William R. Rhodes Center in International Economics and Finance)
Policy Seminar with Glenn Hubbard
Glenn Hubbard, dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, reviewed his recent book with Tim Kane, Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America.
Policy Seminar with Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, the Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, discussed “The Voice of Monetary Policy,” a paper with Tho Pham (University of Reading) and Oleksandr Talavera (University of Birmingham). 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.
Policy Seminar with Tim Kane
Tim Kane, JP Conte Fellow in Immigration Studies at Hoover, discussed his research for his forthcoming Hoover Press book, Total Volunteer Force, that offers a blueprint for Pentagon personnel reform, including the Leader/Talent analytical survey and reform ideas for jobmatching, compensation, and performance reviews.
Summer 2013 Board of Overseers’ Meeting at Hoover
The Hoover Institution hosted its annual Board of Overseers’ summer meeting during July 9–11, 2013.