
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
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
On Price Stability with a Job Guarantee
Presenter: Brian Albrecht
Discussant: Bryan Cutsinger
Monetary Rules without Romance
Presenter: Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Baker Spring
Three minutes to midnight: an update to the Debt Default Clock
Presenter: Baker Spring
Co-Author(s): N.A.
Discussant: Joshua Ingber
Is Seigniorage Optimal
Presenter: Joshua Ingber
Discussant: Brian Albrecht
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
Constitutional Bargains, Civic Discourse, and the Roots of the Liberal Order
Presenter: James Caton
Discussant: Jonathan Plante
Toward a Theory of Symbiotics: Illuminating Societal Evolution through a Theory of Entangled Political Economy
Presenter: Jonathan Plante
Discussant: James Caton
An Entropic Systems Theory of Market-State Interaction
Presenter: Zachary Kessler
Discussant: Abigail Devereaux
Formalizing Polycentric Governance: Could "Synecological" Systems Show the Way Forward?
Presenter: Abigail Devereaux
Discussant: Zachary Kessler
Electricity Markets (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Plaza
Applied Papers (formerly Education)
Session Chair:
Chandler Reilly
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
The role of universities in defense research
Presenter: Chandler Reilly
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Dillon Tauzin
Homeownership and School Governance
Presenter: Dillon Tauzin
Co-Author(s): none
Discussant: Chandler Reilly
Rural vs Urban Covid Spread
Presenter: Ryan Yonk
Co-Author(s): Raymond March; Fiona Harrigan; Amelia Janaskie
Room: Pulaski
Voting
Session Chair:
Dylan Brewer
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Strategic voting and strategic abstention in iterative multi-candidate elections
Presenter: Fabricio Vasselai
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
A Rational Way to Shrink a Set of Candidates to Any Specified Size
Presenter: Nicolaus Tideman
Discussant: Fabricio Vasselai
Iterative Calculus of Voting under Plurality
Presenter: Fabricio Vasselai
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Dylan Brewer
Addressing sample selection bias in machine learning algorithms used to predict election outcomes
Presenter: Dylan Brewer
Co-Author(s): Carlson, Alyssa
Discussant: Nicolaus Tideman
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
Economics as Moral Exchange: James Buchanan Meets Martin Buber
Presenter: Tyler Brough
Co-Author(s): Randy Simmons
Banking, Monetary Policy and Public Choice
Session Chair:
Louis Rouanet
Session Organizer:
Louis Rouanet
As Good as Gold? Commitment Problems and Convertible Paper Money
Presenter: Joshua Hendrickson
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Louis Rouanet
Assignats or Death: Inflationary Finance in Revolutionary France
Presenter: Louis Rouanet
Co-Author(s): Bryan Cutsinger and Josh Ingber
The Calculus of Dissent: Bias and Conformity in FOMC Forecasts
Presenter: Thomas Hogan
Discussant: Peter Hazlett
The Redistributive Politics of Monetary Policy
Presenter: Peter Hazlett
Co-Author(s): Louis Rouanet
Discussant: Joshua Hendrickson
Room: Academy
Bridging research and policy: occupational licensing as a case study
Session Chair:
Edward Timmons
Session Organizer:
Edward Timmons
Perspective of a professor #1
Presenter: Brian Meehan
Perspective of a professor #2
Presenter: Alicia Plemmons
Perspective of a policy professional
Presenter: Jarrett Skorup
Perspective of a former legislator
Presenter: Laura Ebke
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
Don't speak? Proximate correlates of the attitudes towards the freedom of speech.
Presenter: Niels-Hugo Blunch
Co-Author(s): None.
Discussant: Zachary Kessler
Examining the Endogenous Institutional Conditions Shaping Revolutionary Outcomes: Evidence from the Arab Spring
Presenter: Zachary Kessler
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Feler Bose
A 50 State Review of Regulatory Procedures
Presenter: Feler Bose
Co-Author(s): Baugus, Brian; Broughel, James
Discussant: Labanyalata Roy
Information and Efficiency of Electricity Provision
Presenter: Labanyalata Roy
Co-Author(s): Piano Ennio
Discussant: Niels-Hugo Blunch
Analytical Narratives (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Social Networks
Session Chair:
Clara Piano
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Peer pressure matters: the role of social networks on civil society participation
Presenter: Cameron Tilley
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Clara Piano
The Family and the State: A Public Choice Perspective
Presenter: Clara Piano
Co-Author(s): n/a
Discussant: Ricardo R. Noé
Property Rights and Interest Groups: Towards a Theory of Interest Group Emergence
Presenter: Ricardo R. Noé
Discussant: Jeremy Kidd
Can Corporate "Personhood" Teach Us Anything About Algorithms
Presenter: Jeremy Kidd
Co-Author(s): Kidd, Jeremy
Discussant: Cameron Tilley
Awards Luncheon
Session Chair:
William Shughart
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Historical Political Economy
Session Chair:
Ennio Piano
Session Organizer:
Ennio Piano
Fisheries, development, and statelessness: The Gaspesian peninsula circa 1830
Presenter: Vincent Geloso
Discussant: Ennio Piano
A Reappraisal of America's Free Banking Experiment
Presenter: Bryan Cutsinger
Discussant: Fernando Arteaga
Shipwrecked by Rents
Presenter: Fernando Arteaga
Co-Author(s): Desiree Desierto & Mark Koyama
Discussant: Vincent Geloso
Specialization and the firm in Renaissance Italian Art
Presenter: Ennio Piano
Discussant: Bryan Cutsinger
Different Freedoms (Cancelled)
Session Organizer:
President-Elect Session
Room: Oglethorpe A/B
Coups! Corruption!
Session Chair:
Kevin Grier
Session Organizer:
Kevin Grier
Corruption and the Wealth of Nations
Presenter: Robin Grier
Discussant: Samuel Absher
Consequences of CIA Coups in Latin America
Presenter: Samuel Absher
Discussant: Georgios Melios
Ethnic legacies and political attitudes in the context of Africa
Presenter: Georgios Melios
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Robin Grier
Room: Savannah A
Public Choice and Civil Society
Session Chair:
Anthony Gill
Session Organizer:
Anthony Gill
The efficient smoke of burnt offerings: trust and transaction costs in the gifting economy
Presenter: Anthony Gill
Co-Author(s): Thomas, Michael D.
Discussant: Victor Claar
Investment, Saving, & Envy
Presenter: Victor Claar
Co-Author(s): Young Back Choi
Discussant: Lenore Ealy
The Political Economy of the Informal Social Group, and the Origins of Legitimacy
Presenter: Nathanael Snow
Discussant: Anthony Gill
Room: Pulaski
Perspectives on Complex and Entangled Political Economy
Session Chair:
Abigail Devereaux
Session Organizer:
Abigail Devereaux
The Emergence and Entanglement of Economic Indicators
Presenter: Abigail Devereaux
Discussant: Cameron Harwick
Money's Mutation of the Modern Moral Mind: The Simmel Hypothesis and the Cultural Evolution of WEIRDness
Presenter: Cameron Harwick
Discussant: Jon Murphy
Cascading Expert Failure: Rethinking the Question of Market Failure
Presenter: Jon Murphy
Co-Author(s): None
Discussant: Malte Dold
The Institutional Implications of Knightian Uncertainty
Presenter: Malte Dold
Co-Author(s): Mario Rizzo
Discussant: 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
Mafia Recruits, Reputation, and Free-Riders
Presenter: Henry Thompson
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Kaitlyn Woltz
The Role of Prisoner Voice in Criminal Justice Reform
Presenter: Kaitlyn Woltz
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Henry Thompson
The Role of Prison Journalism in the US Criminal Justice Bureaucracy
Presenter: Kaitlyn Woltz
Co-Author(s): N/A
Discussant: Henry Thompson
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
Plenary Talk: "Culture, Democracy, and Regulation"
Presenter: Claudia Williamson
Discussant: Lynne Kiesling