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Evolving Schedule for the Summer Institute for the Preservation of the Study of the
History of Economics
George Mason University 
Fairfax VA 22030 
 
 
Monday – July 14 [Ethical Codes in Statistics but not Econometrics] 
 
10a David Levy – “Why Would Truth Seekers Need Ethics?” 
Ali Khan – “The Ethics of (Economic) Theorizing” 
Marty Zelder – “Penalizing Cons in Econometrics” 
Dan Houser – Comments: Informal Ethical Codes in Experimental Economics  
Deirdre McCloskey  – “The Secret History of Statistical Significance”  
 
Tuesday – July 15 [Proverbs]     
 
James Buchanan – “Influences on My Work” 
Deirdre McCloskey – “Bourgeois Virtue: Doing Well by Doing Good” 
Sandra Peart – “Proverbs and Classical Economics” 
Bridget Butkevich – “Proverbial Behavior as ‘Anomalous’” 
Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian – Bentham’s Constitution as Starting Point  
 
Wednesday – July 16 [Scarcity as a moral problem] 
 
Sandra Peart – “Ending Scarcity by Making ‘Better’ Human Beings” 
Ed McPhail – “‘Original Sin’ as Acceptance of Scarcity” 
2:30p Tim Leonard –“Raising Wages by Thinning the Herd” 
4p Tyler Cowen – scarcity in the novel 
 
Thursday – July 17 [Sympathy] 
 
James Buchanan – “The Status of the Status Quo” 
Sandra Peart – “Humans without Capacity for Pleasure” 
Leon Montes – “Virtue in Adam Smith” 
Tim Leonard –“Darwinian Midwives in Economics at the Birth of the Welfare State” 
Gordon Tullock – “Sympathy and Biology” 
 
Friday – July 18 [The Great Problems of Economics] 
 
Maria Pia Paganelli – “Hume and Endogenous Money” 
Eric Crampton & Andrew Farrant – “Planning and Robustness” 
Gordon Brady – “Duncan Black and the Italian tradition of Public Finance” 
David Levy – “The donut/bagel problem: After Four Years” 
 
 
If anyone is interesting in coming to one or more of the sessions, drop me a note and
indicate your bagel / donut preferences.
 
We're planning to have daily events at the Buchanan House, for instance, showing the video
of Jim Buchanan's interview with F. A. Hayek.
 
If anyone needs a place to stay, I believe we can put people up in a dorm for less than
$30/night. How much less depends ... Drop me a note if you're interesting and I'll turn
you over to the competent authorities so I can worry about donuts and bagels.
 
David M Levy 
MSN 1D3 Buchanan Center 
George Mason University 
Fairfax VA 22030 
Phone: 703-993-2319   Fax: 703-993-2323 
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