Workshop in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

The Workshop in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (or PPE Workshop) was established in 1999 to encourage and explore the latest research by scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. For over 20 years, the PPE Workshop has been a vehicle for scholars and graduate students to discuss and receive feedback on research.

The workshop is held on Thursdays from 2:00-3:30pm.

Fall 2024 Schedule

August 29th—Eric Schliesser (Political Theory, University of Amsterdam) on “Democracy as a Competitive Discovery Process.”

September 12th—Paul Dragos Aligica (Political Science, Mercatus Center) on “Social and Values Heterogeneity, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Classical Liberal Diagnostic and Modus Vivendi Governance Solutions.”

September 19th—Yuen Yuen Ang (Political Economy, John Hopkins) on “Adaptive Political Economy: Toward a New Paradigm.”

September 26th—Jordan Lofthouse (Economics, The Mercatus Center) on “An Economist’s Guide to Environmentalism.”

October 3rd—Rebecca Lowe (Philosophy, Mercatus Center and Canterbury Institute) on “Freedom and Captivity: Are There Prisons in Utopia?”

October 10th—David Schmidtz (Philosophy, West Virginia University) on “Self-Governance as a Principal-Agent Problem.”

October 17th—Mikayla Novak (Economics and Sociology, Mercatus Center) on “The Hayekian Meso-Cosmos: Families Living in Multiple Worlds at Once.”

October 24th—Giandomenica Becchio (Economics, University of Torino) on The Doctrine of the Separate Spheres.

October 31st—Erwin Dekker (Economics, Mercatus Center) on “Two Types of Subjectivism in Austrian Economics.”

November 7th—Matthew Caulfield (Ethics and Legal Studies, Fordham University) on “Constitutionalizing Corporate Governance.”

November 21st—Daniel Smith (Economics, Middle Tennessee State University) on “Das Hayek Problem?”

December 5th—Justin Tosi (Philosophy, Texas Tech University) on “TBD.”

Please visit the Hayek Program Podcast Website for more!