Academic Research Seminars

The Center for Free Enterprise and the Institute for Humane Studies are partnering for a three-part online series, “Women, Minority, and Everyday Entrepreneurs.” Those with research interests in this topic are encouraged to apply.

Each session of the series will feature a panel of experts and an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. Each panel will be followed by a breakout discussion group where audience members will have the opportunity to raise their own research questions and ideas for feedback with a panel speaker and other members of the group.

What are the burdens of occupational licensing, especially after a global pandemic? How fares the gig economy in such a world? Should we fear robots and automation taking our jobs, or can these innovations create more work for many?

The Center for Growth and Opportunity and the Institute for Humane Studies are partnering to explore these and related challenges and opportunities. Those with research interests in these issues are welcome to apply.

How effective have responses to the current pandemic been? How could things have been done better or can they be done better going forward? When should we trust experts or be skeptical of their claims - and how do we know when to tell the difference? Are effective responses consistent with respecting civil liberties? Explore these questions and more at “Societal Impacts of Pandemic Responses,” an online panel series cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Free Enterprise and the Institute for Humane Studies.

"Unnecessary Evils: Laws, Judging, and Policing in an Overcriminalized World" will explore why (and how) there are too many criminal laws, and how this excess leads to perverse judicial and policing incentives.

This in-person Academic Research Seminar will explore the following: judgment-based entrepreneurship, political disruptions, government policies, and entrepreneurship with regard to development.