2012 Sessions for Dwight R. Lee

 
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"
J.R. Clark, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Dwight R. Lee, Southern Methodist University

"Dangling at the Abyss: How Political Economy Equilibrium Pushes Us to the Edge of the Abyss. . .but Keeps Us from Going in"
John Garen, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)
J.R. Clark, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

"Think Tank Expenditures and Interest Group Activity: A Dynamic Panel Granger Causality Test"
Todd M. Nesbit, The Ohio State University (Contact Author)
Claudia R. Williamson, Mississippi State University
Joseph Palardy, Youngstown State University

Discussants:

John Garen, University of Kentucky
Todd M. Nesbit, The Ohio State University
Joshua C. Hall, Beloit College

 

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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

 

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