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A Peculiar Path: The Rise of the West in a Global Context

April 7, 2005

This conference is latest installment in the series of workshops sponsored by the Mercatus Center's Social Change Project to provide input to important manuscripts that will enhance our understanding of social change.  A Peculiar Path: The Rise of the West in Global Context, 1500-1850 is Jack Goldstone's book on innovation and the rise of the West.

Criteria for Good Laws of Business Association

January 8, 2005

For the second year, the Mercatus Center partnered with the Berkeley Business Law Journal to host a symposium exploring fundamental questions of corporate governance.

War, Wine and Taxes

June 24, 2004

This two-day, invitation-only conference will bring together a small group of leading scholars to participate in roundtable discussions arranged around portions of Dr. John Nye's new manuscript, War, Wine and Taxes.

Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy

June 26, 2003

This Manuscript Review Conference was held to assist Avner Greif with his forthcoming book, Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy.

Understanding the Process of Economic Change

November 14, 2002

This conference was the third in a three-part series on “Liberty, Responsibility, and Economic Change,” led by Douglass North and Paul Edwards.  The purpose of this conference was to assemble an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss and suggest improvements to Nobel Laureate Douglass North’s manuscript for his book, Understanding the Process of Economic Change.

Liberty, Markets, and Economic Growth

July 18, 2002

The purpose of this conference was to explore a fundamental dilemma for individual liberty and economic growth: that any state strong enough to protect property rights, enforce contracts, and provide a stable macro-economy is also strong enough to violate the liberty and confiscate the wealth of all of its citizens.

Personal to Impersonal Exchange

June 21, 2002

This conference was designed to explore one of the fundamental puzzles in economic history:  the movement from personal to impersonal exchange; from exchange based on kin to exchange that extends well beyond kin groups.

Liberty, Cognition, and Beliefs

April 4, 2002

The purpose of this conference was to assemble an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss findings in the cognitive and social sciences about the role of belief in human behavior and the implications of these findings for questions about economic development, political reform, and social change.

Politics, Markets, and Social Change

February 1, 2001

This conference is third in a series of conferences intended to bridge the gap between the recent findings of modern cognitive science and the social sciences. 

Beliefs, Institutions and Social Change

December 1, 2000

This seminar was the second in a series of three which, together, were intended to bridge the gap between the recent findings of modern cognitive science and the social sciences.

Cognition, Learning and Social Change

October 27, 2000

The purpose of this series of three conferences is to build a bridge between the cognitive and social sciences, especially economics. This first conference focused mainly on learning processes, the role of external representations and distributed (social) cognition.