Join the GMU Econ Society & FFF in welcoming lecturer and author James Bovard!
Date: Wednesday, September 7th
5:30 pm – Free Pizza ($0)
6:00 pm – Lecture with Q&A
8:00 pm – Social Hour at Brion’s Grille (across the street from George Mason in University Mall)
Location: GMU Campus' Johnson Center Cinema
Topic: Prosperity and Freedom and the Obama Administration
Biography:
James Bovard is policy advisor to the Future of Freedom Foundation and author of nine books, including Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), The Bush Betrayal (2004), and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994). He has written for the New York times Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. He is a contributing editor for American Conservative magazine and The Freeman and a regular contributor to Freedom Daily magazine.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Separation of Health & State Debate Video
All,
The video for Debate over the Separation of Health & State with Economists Bryan Caplan and David Balan is now up!
This is only the debate portion -- unfortunately the audience Q&A did not come out due to technical difficulties.
Dr. Caplan also set-up a resource page where you can have access to the opening statements by both debaters, the PowerPoint slides, and the video, check it out:
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Jeffrey Miron: Obamanomics -- Growing the Pie or Dividing the Pie?
Come out to the first installment of the Economic Liberty Lecture Series of the semester with Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron!
Economic Liberty Lecture Series --
Dinner, Lecture, and Social Hour
DATE: February 8, 2010 – Monday
PLACE: George Mason University (Fairfax campus) - Johnson Center Cinema
5:30 pm – Pizza
6:00 pm – Talk with Q&A
8:00 pm – Social hour at Brion's Grille
ADMISSION: FREE
SPEAKER: Jeffrey Miron
Jeffrey A. Miron is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with particular emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs. Miron has served on the faculty at the University of Michigan and as a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. and the Department of Economics, Harvard University. From 1992-1998, he was chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University. He is the author of Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition and The Economics of Seasonal Cycles, in addition to numerous opeds and journal articles. He has been the recipient of an Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship. Miron received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Swarthmore College in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1984.
Social Hour:
Come join us at a social hour at Brion's Grille in Fairfax, Virginia, right next to George Mason University - 10621 Braddock Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 352-7272
Presented by:
GMU Econ Society
The Future of Freedom Foundation
www.fff.org fff@fff.org (703) 934-6101
Economic Liberty Lecture Series --
Dinner, Lecture, and Social Hour
DATE: February 8, 2010 – Monday
PLACE: George Mason University (Fairfax campus) - Johnson Center Cinema
5:30 pm – Pizza
6:00 pm – Talk with Q&A
8:00 pm – Social hour at Brion's Grille
ADMISSION: FREE
SPEAKER: Jeffrey Miron
Jeffrey A. Miron is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with particular emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs. Miron has served on the faculty at the University of Michigan and as a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. and the Department of Economics, Harvard University. From 1992-1998, he was chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University. He is the author of Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition and The Economics of Seasonal Cycles, in addition to numerous opeds and journal articles. He has been the recipient of an Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship. Miron received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Swarthmore College in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1984.
Social Hour:
Come join us at a social hour at Brion's Grille in Fairfax, Virginia, right next to George Mason University - 10621 Braddock Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 352-7272
Presented by:
GMU Econ Society
The Future of Freedom Foundation
www.fff.org fff@fff.org (703) 934-6101
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Dan Mitchell on Stimulus & Spending
Dan Mitchell, tax policy expert of the Cato Institute, discusses the second proposed Stimulus and the real idea behind government spending. Check out these two incredibly educational and important videos:
Monday, July 20, 2009
Dan Mitchell on Tax Policy
Check out these highly entertaining videos of class-warfare tax policy, Obama's deferral proposal, the social security tax plan, and corruption in the government. Dan Mitchell, an expert in tax reform from the Cato Institute, discusses the problems with these policies. Also, Dan Mitchell received his Ph.D in Economics from George Mason.
President Obama and other politicians are advocating higher taxes, with a particular emphasis on class-warfare taxes targeting the so-called rich.
President Obama's proposal to severely restrict "deferral" will cause a significant tax increase on American companies trying to earn market share in other nations. For all intents and purposes, the White House plan is protectionism, but the target is American companies rather than their foreign rivals.
In addition to several other tax increases, Barack Obama wants to increase the Social Security payroll tax burden by imposing the tax on income above $250,000. This would be a sharp departure from current law, which only requires that the tax be imposed on the amount of income needed to "pay for" promised benefits. But more important, at least from an economic perspective, the initiative would increase the top tax rate on productive behavior by as much as 12 percentage points - and this would be in addition to his proposal to kill the 2003 tax rate reductions and further boost the top rate by 4.6 percentage points. This mini-documentary explains why a big tax rate increase on highly productive people would be very damaging to America's prosperity, especially in a competitive global economy.
Washington is riddled with corruption, much of which actually is legal. The politicians and other insiders claim that more ethics laws and lobbying rules are the solution. Some even say the only answer is campaign finance laws that restrict 1st Amendment rights to fully participate in the political process.
Enjoy & spread the word!
President Obama and other politicians are advocating higher taxes, with a particular emphasis on class-warfare taxes targeting the so-called rich.
President Obama's proposal to severely restrict "deferral" will cause a significant tax increase on American companies trying to earn market share in other nations. For all intents and purposes, the White House plan is protectionism, but the target is American companies rather than their foreign rivals.
In addition to several other tax increases, Barack Obama wants to increase the Social Security payroll tax burden by imposing the tax on income above $250,000. This would be a sharp departure from current law, which only requires that the tax be imposed on the amount of income needed to "pay for" promised benefits. But more important, at least from an economic perspective, the initiative would increase the top tax rate on productive behavior by as much as 12 percentage points - and this would be in addition to his proposal to kill the 2003 tax rate reductions and further boost the top rate by 4.6 percentage points. This mini-documentary explains why a big tax rate increase on highly productive people would be very damaging to America's prosperity, especially in a competitive global economy.
Washington is riddled with corruption, much of which actually is legal. The politicians and other insiders claim that more ethics laws and lobbying rules are the solution. Some even say the only answer is campaign finance laws that restrict 1st Amendment rights to fully participate in the political process.
Enjoy & spread the word!
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