
2021 Public Choice Society, March 11-13, Savannah Georgia
- Thursday, March 11
- 8:00am – 5:00pm
- 4:00pm – 6:00pm
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:00pm – 9:00pm
- Friday, March 12
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 5:00pm *
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 12:50pm
- 11:30am – 12:45pm
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm *
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:50pm *
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 7:00pm – 9:00pm
- Saturday, March 13
- 7:00am – 8:00am
- 8:00am – 9:30am *
- 9:30am – 10:00am
- 10:00am – 11:20am
- 11:20am – 11:30am
- 11:30am – 1:00pm *
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- 2:30pm – 2:40pm
- 2:40pm – 4:10pm *
- 4:10pm – 4:20pm
- 4:20pm – 5:30pm
- 6:00pm – 7:30pm
- 03/13/2021 11:59pm – Open
Friday, March 12, 2021
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes - Honoring Bernard Grofman (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Savannah B
Virginia Political Economy II: Institutional Processes
Session Chair:
Marta Podemska-Mikluch
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Subnational Economic Development
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
State Capacity (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Academy
Social Order
Session Chair:
Benjamin Ogden
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Plaza
Corruption
Session Chair:
Slade Mendenhall
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pulaski
War and War Gaming
Session Chair:
Edwar Escalante
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Savannah A
Roundtable Discussion, "Toward an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of The Early Virginia School" by David Levy and Sandra Peart (Presidential Session sponsored by Liberty Fund)
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Plenary Session 1: Michael C. Munger, "Giants Among Us: Do We Need a New Antitrust Paradigm?”
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
William Shughart
Roundtable on Shared Mental Models: Kyklos Symposium in Honor of Douglass C. North
Session Chair:
Ravi Roy
Session Organizer:
Arthur Denzau
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Rent Seeking and Rent Creation
Session Chair:
Stephen Miller
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Academy
Russia (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Plaza
Regulation and Health
Session Chair:
Arijit Ray
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pulaski
Past Presidents
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Savannah B
Regulation in the Large
Session Chair:
Sean Mulholland
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Political Capitalism (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
Mehrdad Vahabi
Room: Plaza
Political Economy and Development
Session Chair:
Justin Callais
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Occupational Licensing and Insurance
Session Chair:
Bonnie Wilson
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Polycentricity (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Academy
Macroeconomic Policies
Session Chair:
Greg Caskey
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Savannah B
Austrian Perspectives
Session Chair:
Alexander Schaefer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pulaski
Parliaments and Judges
Session Chair:
Adrian Lucardi
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Savannah A
New Books - Author Talks
Session Chair:
Edward Lopez
Session Organizer:
Edward Lopez
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes - Honoring Steven Brams (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Savannah A
Institutions & Entrepreneurship
Session Organizer:
Daniel Bennett
Room: Academy
How Should Ranked-Choice Votes be Counted?
Session Chair:
Nicolaus Tideman
Session Organizer:
Nicolaus Tideman
Room: Pulaski
Meta Public Choice
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Plaza
Immigration, Trade and Slavery
Session Chair:
Phil Magness
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Savannah B
The Political Economy of Cultural Assimilation
Session Chair:
Greg Caskey
Session Organizer:
Greg Caskey
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Microeconomic Policies
Session Chair:
Todd Nesbit
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Warfare and Economy (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Savannah A
Monetary Politics
Session Chair:
Bryan Cutsinger
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Institutional Paradoxes, Failure, and Mistakes - Honoring Nicholas Miller (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
Bonnie Wilson
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Virginia Political Economy I: System Theories
Session Chair:
James Caton
Session Organizer:
Richard Wagner
Electricity Markets (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Plaza
Applied Papers (formerly Education)
Session Chair:
Chandler Reilly
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pulaski
Voting
Session Chair:
Dylan Brewer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Fiscal Policy (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Gender and Race (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Plenary Session 2: Tyler Brough, "Economics as Moral Exchange: James Buchanan Meets Martin Buber"
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
William Shughart
Banking, Monetary Policy and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Louis Rouanet
Session Organizer:
Louis Rouanet
Room: Academy
Bridging research and policy: occupational licensing as a case study
Session Chair:
Edward Timmons
Session Organizer:
Edward Timmons
COVID-19 (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Bureaucracy (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Pulaski
Political Economy
Session Chair:
Niels-Hugo Blunch
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Analytical Narratives (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Social Networks
Session Chair:
Clara Piano
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Awards Luncheon
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Historical Political Economy
Session Chair:
Ennio Piano
Session Organizer:
Ennio Piano
Different Freedoms (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Coups! Corruption!
Session Chair:
Kevin Grier
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Room: Savannah A
Public Choice and Civil Society
Session Chair:
Anthony Gill
Session Organizer:
Anthony Gill
Room: Pulaski
Perspectives on Complex and Entangled Political Economy
Session Chair:
Abigail Devereaux
Session Organizer:
Abigail Devereaux
Africa and China (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Academy
Crime, Gangs and Prisons
Session Chair:
Kaitlyn Woltz
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Democracy (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Plenary Session 3: Claudia R. Williamson "Culture, Democracy, and Regulation"
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
William Shughart