BRUCE CALDWELL is the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Economics at UNCG and the General Editor of book series The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek. The series, published by the University of Chicago Press, collects the writings of the Nobel Prize winning economist and social theorist Friedrick A. Hayek. The Collected Works edition of Hayek’s most famous book, The Road to Serfdom, was published in 2007. Professor Caldwell will discuss the book, detailing how Hayek came to write it, how it became so famous, and its continued importance today.
"F.A. Hayek and The Road to Serfdom"
4:00 pm, March 20, 2008
Bryan Building Room 122
PHILIP KEEFER is a Lead Research Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Since receiving his PhD in Economics from Washington University at St. Louis, he has worked continuously on the interaction of institutions, political economy and economic development. His research has included investigations of the impact of insecure property rights on economic growth; the effect of political credibility on the policy choices of governments; and the sources of political credibility in democracies and autocracies.
“Why don’t the poor in poor countries vote for economic development?”
7:30 pm, February 27, 2008
Weatherspoon Auditorium