Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA* |
Session 01G* Issues in Public Sector Economics II |
Organizers: |
J.R. Clark, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
Session Chairs: |
J.R. Clark, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
Papers: |
"An Economic Analysis of the Effects of Fair-Trade, with Rumination on the Popularity of Economists" "Dangling at the Abyss: How Political Economy Equilibrium Pushes Us to the Edge of the Abyss. . .but Keeps Us from Going in" "Think Tank Expenditures and Interest Group Activity: A Dynamic Panel Granger Causality Test" |
Discussants: |
John Garen, University of Kentucky |
Saturday 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. SEA* |
Session 01H* How Should We Discuss: Markets vis-a-vis Government, Morality, Altruism and Public Charity, and the Social Welfare System? |
Organizers: |
John Garen, University of Kentucky |
Panelists: |
James D. Gwartney, Florida State University "Comparative Economics Versus the Omniscient Benevolent Dictator" Dwight R. Lee, Southern Methodist University "The Comparative Morality of Markets and Government: An Analytical Examination of an Implicit Bias" John Garen, University of Kentucky "Economics, Altrusim, and Private and Public Charity" Brian Strow, Western Kentucky University Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University |