Events

William Luther (Florida Atlantic University) explains why bitcoin is best understood as a distributed payment mechanism, processed on a shared ledger maintained by its users.

Professor Vincent Geloso (King's University College) illustrates the potentially dramatic equalizing effects of a social policy law. He presents new research on how education laws contributed to the collapse of the linguistic wage gap in Quebec from 1970 to 2000.

Professor Cowen (University of Lincoln, UK) presented on political economic questions associated with networks involving blockchain.

The Issues the Candidates Aren't Discussing: Governance Reform with Don Kettl & Philip Howard

Professor Chris Bonneau (University of Pittsburgh) presents his work co-founding and running the Prison Education Project at the University of Pittsburgh

Professor Potts illustrated how a blockchain economy destroys a corporate economy in the same way that a market economy destroyed the feudal economy.

As part of CGM's Virtual Seminar Series on the Economics of Race and Identity, Tate Twinam (College of William & Mary) presented Land Use Regulation and Individual Welfare and engaged in audience Q&A.

Professor Schneider presented on how implicit feudalism came to dominate online communities and discussed potentially better models of governance, including the current space for creative innovation.

In a virtual roundtable on police reform, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto and his staff engaged with responses from Professors David Harris and Brandon Davis, highlighting challenges and possibilities for reimagining public safety and accountability