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Cato University Spring 2005

Applied Economics: User-Friendly Tools to Understand Politics, Business Enterprise, and Life

Schedule

| Spring 2005 Schedule | Spring 2005 Faculty |

Thursday, April 28 Friday, April 29 Saturday, April 30 Sunday, May 1
  7:30-8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast 		8:00-9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast 		 
8:30-10:00 a.m

Tom G.
Palmer

Rational Choice and Public Policy Analysis 		9:00-10:30 a.m

Peter
Van Doren

Extending Markets to New Domains 		9:00-10:00 a.m.

Breakfast and Departure
10:00-10:15 a.m.

Break		 10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break		  
10:15-11:45 a.m.

Michael
Munger

Economics of Culture and Custom		 10:45-12:15 p.m.

Michael
Tanner

Jagadeesh
Gokhale

Applied Topic: Social Security and Private Ownership
12:00-12:45 p.m.

Lunch (No speaker)

12:45-1:30 p.m.

Transfer to
Mount Vernon for
afternoon schedule		 12:15-1:15 p.m.

Lunch

(No speaker)
1:30-2:45 p.m.

Dan
Griswold

Applied Topic: International Trade		 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Karol
Boudreaux

Applied Topic: Externalities, Property, and Conservation
2:45-3:00 p.m.

Break		 3:00-3:15 p.m.

Break
4:00-6:00 p.m.

Registration		 3:00-4:15 p.m

Peter
Van Doren

What Science Can and Can't Tell Us about Public Policy 		3:15-4:45 p.m

Michael
Munger

Economics of Politics: Choice and Democratic Coherence
4:15-4:30 p.m.

Break

4:30-5:30 p.m.

Tour of Mount Vernon		 4:45-6:00 p.m.

Free time
6:00-9:00 p.m.

Reception and Dinner

Rep. Edward
Royce (R-CA)

The Importance of
Economics to
Public Policy		 5:45-9:00 p.m.

Reception and Dinner
at Mount Vernon,
George Washington's Home

Edward H. Crane

Cato's Vision for Liberty 		6:00-9:00 p.m

Reception and Dinner


David Boaz

Why Government Grows
Too Big


| Spring 2005 Schedule | Spring 2005 Faculty |



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