Bagwell Center
Multimedia
Welcome to the various forms of media produced by the Bagwell Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity at KSU! Our media features lectures, workshops and symposiums that provide a platform for interdisciplinary study of the importance of markets and economic institutions. Specifically, the Bagwell Center looks at resource allocation, entrepreneurial activity, economic prosperity, and human welfare.
Check out the various podcast, workshop, symposium and lecture topics below!
Podcast
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2024
October 7, 2024
Daniel Di Martino on "How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela: The Lessons for America"September 16,2024
Daniel Di Martino on "Socialism Kills: The Deadly Consequences of Socialism in Venezuela"June 19, 2024
Lawrence H. White on "Contrasting the Gold, Fiat, and Bitcoin Standards"June 5, 2024
Lawrence H. White on "How the Gold Standard Works"May 22. 2024
Patrick Higgins on "The Atlanta Fed's GDP Nowcasting Model"May 15, 2024
Senator Phil Gramm on "The Myth of American Inequality"March 27,2024
Erik Randolph on "The Benefits Cliffs Problem -- What Can Be Done?"
March 13, 2024
Erik Randolph on "The U.S. Benefits Cliffs Problem--It's Worse Than You Think"
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2023
December 19, 2023
Stanley Goldfarb, MD, on "The Impact of DEI Policies on Medical Education and Healthcare"
December 6, 2023
Joshua Deutschmann on "The Market for Sanitation in Urban Senegal"
November 29,2023
Joshua Deutschmann on "Peanuts and the Economics of Food Safety in Rural Senegal"
November 1, 2023
Zilvinas Silenas on "High Taxes and more Government: is the European Welfare State a Good Deal?"
October 25, 2023
Zilvinas Silenas on "Energy, Europe, and Ukraine"
October 11, 2023
Jonathan Looney on "Scholarships - Finding Free Money for College"
September 12, 2023
Jonathan Looney on "Understanding Credit"
May 12, 2023
Timothy Mathews on "Ranked Choice Voting in Practice: The Case of New Zealand's Flag Referendums"
May 12, 2023
Alex Epstein on "Fossil Future"
May 12, 2023
Justin Amash on "The Economics of Congress"
February 28, 2023
Mike Munger on "Good Industrial Policy"
February 27, 2023
John List on "What can Rideshare Teach us about the World?"
February 20, 2023
Brad Greenwood on "Ride-Hailing Services and Alcohol"
February 14, 2023
Mike Munger on "Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Lessons from the Strange Case of New Zealand"
February 6, 2023
Sutirtha Bagchi on "An Examination of Medallion Prices in New York and Chicago"
January 27, 2023
Jared Meyer on "Ride Sharing Services in the Context of Public Choice"
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2022
July 19, 2022
Stergios Skaperdas on "Myths and Self-Deceptions about the Greek Debt Crisis"
July 12, 2022
Stergios Skaperdas on "Why Is There Conflict?"
June 28,2022
Art Carden on "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich"
June 14, 2022
Art Carden on "Waltonomics: Walmart and Society"
May 12, 2022
Brian Roberson on "Contests and the Strategic Allocation of Scarce Resources"
April 12, 2022
Charles Anderton on "Network Effects in the Study of Conflict and Security"
March 14, 2022William J. Luther on "What Is Bitcoin Really Worth?"
February 21, 2022
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2021
November 9, 2021
Joseph Harrington on "Sexual Harassment, Corruption, and Other Social Ills"
October 26,2021
Joseph Harrington on "Algorithmic Pricing and Market Competition"
September 27, 2021
Andy Puzder on "Why Generation Z Should Embrace Capitalism Over Socialism"
July 23, 2021
Eric Cochling on "Criminal Justice"
July 19, 2021James McCafferty on “Best Practices in Offender Re-entry”
July 5, 2021
Peter Fenton on “Criminal Justice: You Call that a System?"
June 21, 2021
Thomas Miceli on "The Price of Redemption: Sin, Penance, and Marginal Deterrence"
June 7, 2021
Ilya Somin on "Democracy and Political Ignorance"
May 17, 2021
Jeremy Horpedahl on "The Policy Tradeoffs of COVID"
April 19, 2021
Matt Mitchell on "How Regulations Protect Firms from Competition Instead of Customers from Harm"
April 6, 2021
David Skarbek on "The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World"
March 24,2021
Symposium on the Economics of the Affordable Care Act - Discussion
March 3, 2021
Prof. Gregory Colman on "The Effect of the ACA Dependent Coverage Mandate"
February 15, 2021
Prof. Sarah Miller on "The Affordable Care Act and Mortality"
February 2, 2021
"Measuring the ACA's Impacts on Coverage, Utilization, and Health"
January 15, 2021
Casey Mulligan on "The Unintended Consequences of the ACA"
January 4, 2021
Dr. Burt Folsom and Prof. Michael Patrono on 'The Myth of the Robber Barons'
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2020
December 21, 2020
Prof. Chris Coyne on "The Economics of Pandemics"
November 30, 2020
Prof. Peter Calcagno on "The Wisdom of Politicians?: The Role of the State in Economic Development"
November 16, 2020
Prof. Laura Grube on "Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship"
November 2, 2020
"Alternative Voting Rules with an Emphasis on Ranked Choice Voting"
October 27, 2020
Symposium on Voting and Election Reforms - "The Need for Voting Reforms"
October 19, 2020
Voting and Elections from a Political Science Perspective
October 8, 2020
Symposium on Voting and Election Reforms - "Voting and Elections from an Economic Perspective"
September 23, 2020
Symposium on Voting and Election Reforms - "Individual versus Social Preferences and Choice"
Workshops & Symposia
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2021
Does Sweden Have a Socialist Economy
November 19, 2021
Andreas Bergh
Associate Professor of Economics, Lund University
Sweden - Capitalist or Socialist - Failure or SuccessPer Bylund
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Records-Johnson Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University
The Broader Implications of the Welfare State - Culture and EconomyJosh Hendrickson
Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Mississippi
Sweden, Socialism, and the Property Rights Paradigm -
2020
Symposium on the Economics of the Affordable Care Act
January 13, 2020
Charles Courtemanche
Measuring the ACA's Impacts on Coverage, Utilization, and Health -
2019
The Boundaries of Economics
October 23, 2019
Steven Landsburg
Rochester University
"Keynote Address"Scott Cunningham
Baylor University
"Casual Inference and Sex Work"Emily Owens
UC Irvine
"Socially Efficient Policing"Paola Suarez
SUNY Purchase
"Child-Bride Marriage in the Developing World"
Symposium on the Foundations and Applications of Game Theory
March 26, 2019
Tim Mathews
Kennesaw State University
"Overview of Game Theory"James Boudreau
Kennesaw State University
"Solution Concepts for Non-Cooperative Games"Brett Katzman
Kennesaw State University
"Repeated Games"Sean Ellermeyer
Kennesaw State University
"A Case Study in Cooperative Game Theory: The Stable Matching Problem"Al Roth
Stanford University
"Who gets what and why? Game Theory for Market Design"
Symposium on the Economic Impact of the Super Bowl
January 25, 2019
J.C. Bradbury
Kennesaw State University
"Atlanta’s Road to the Super Bowl"Victor Matheson
College of Holy Cross
"Bowl or Super (Hyper)Bole? Just how big is the Super Bowl for local economies?"Lauren Heller and Frank Stephenson
Berry College
"What Does the Super Bowl Mean for Hotels? Evidence from Occupancy Data"Craig Depken
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
"The Impact of Mega-Events on Tax Revenues" -
2018
Symposium on Accountability in K-12 Education
October 12, 2018
Opening Lecture on "The Economics of Testing and Accountability in K-12 Public Schools"
Panel Discussion on “Testing and Accountability in K-12 Public Schools—Stay the Course, End It, or Mend It?”
Panelists:
Shepard Barbash
(writer and former education advisor to Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue)Alisha Thomas Cromartie
(former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, D-Austell)Neal McCluskey(Director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute)
Eric Wearne(Provost, Holy Spirit College and former State of Georgia Accountability Official)
Moderator:
Ben Scafidi
(Kennesaw State University and worked on accountability issues for Georgia Governors Roy Barnes and Sonny Perdue)
Symposium on Criminal Justice and Inmate ReformMarch 2, 2018
Peter Fenton
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University
"Criminal Justice: You Call that a System?"James McCafferty
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University
"Best Practices in Offender Re-entry: A Review of What Works and What Doesn't Work"Eric Cochling
Vice President of Public Policy, Georgia Center for Opportunity
"Criminal Justice"Burt and Anita Folsom
Authors, Death on Hold
"Death on Hold"Gerard Robinson
Executive Director, Center for Advancing Opportunity
"The Education of Inmates: What Does Research, Policy, and Practice Tell Us?" -
2017
Symposium on Voting and Election Reforms
November 15, 2017
Timothy Mathews
Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University
"Individual versus Social Preferences and Choice"James Boudreau
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University
"Voting and Elections from an Economic Perspective"Kerwin Swint
Professor of Political Science
"Voting and Elections from a Political Science Perspective"Krist Novoselic
Chair, FairVote
"The Need for Voting Reforms"Rob Richie
Executive Director, FairVote
"Alternative Voting Rules with an Emphasis on Ranked Choice Voting"
Lectures
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2021-2022
Jeremy Horpedahl
Assistant Professor of Economics,University of Central ArkansasMarch 23, 2021
Matthew Mitchell
Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Equity Initiative at the Mercatus Center, George Mason UniversityMarch 2, 2021
How Regulations Protect Firms from Competition Instead of Customers from Harm
Phillip W. Magness
Senior Research Fellow, American Institute for Economic ResearchFebruary 23, 2021
David Skarbek
Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown UniversityFebruary 9, 2021
The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World
Christopher Coyne
Professor of Economics, George Mason UniversityOctober 20, 2020
Peter Calcagno
Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Public Choice and Market Process, College of CharlestonOctober 13, 2020
The Wisdom of Politicians?: The Role of the State in Economic Development
Dr. Laura Grube
Assistant Professor of Economics, Beloit CollegeOctober 6, 2020
Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship
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2019-2020
William Trumbull
Dean of the School of Business, The CitadelJanuary 24, 2020
Is the Cuban Health System as Good as It’s Cracked Up to Be?
The Cuban Economy: Past, Present, and Prospects for the Future
Abigail R. Hall
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of TampaOctober 28, 2019
"Tryanny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism"
"The War on Drugs"
Archibald Ritter
Distinguished Research Professor, Carleton UniversityOctober 24, 2019
The Cuban Economy: Private versus Cooperative Sectors and Underground Markets
Public and Private, Market and Plan: Lessons from Cuba and the United States
Stergios Skaperdas
Professor of Economics, UC San DiegoOctober 11, 2019
“On the Legal and Institutional Foundations of Modern Economies”
Bryan Riley
Director, Free Trade Initiative, National Tax Payers Union FoundationSeptember 18, 2019
“The Impact of NAFTA and USMCA on Georgia”
Bobbi Herzberg
Distinguished Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek
Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason UniversitySeptember 5, 2019
"Modern Mutual Aid in Welfare"
"Polycentric Models of Healthcare Provision" -
2018-2019
Ilya Somin
Professor of Law, Yale UniversityMarch 22, 2019
"Democracy and Political Ignorance"
"The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London & The Limits of Eminent Domain"
Tom Miceli
Professor of Economics, University of ConnecticutMarch 18, 2019
"Little Pink House: An Economic Perspective on Eminent Domain"
"The Price of Redemption: Sin, Penance, and Marginal Deterrence"
Alex Maslov
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State UniversityFebruary 7, 2019
"Institutions, Technology and Emerging Complexity"
Larry Reed
President, Foundation for Economic EducationAugust 23, 2018
"The Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy"
"Adam Smith and the Birth of Economics"
John Dove
Associate Professor of Economics, Troy UniversityAugust 16, 2018
"Mercantilism and Free Trade"
"Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth" -
2017-2018
Florenz Plassmann
Professor of Economics and Political Science, Binghamton UniversityOctober 13, 2017
"What Is Economics?"
"Voting Methods and Voting Paradoxes"
Joshua C. Hall
Associate Professor of Economics, West Virginia UniversityJune 27, 2018
"Regionalization and Consolidation of Municipal Taxes and Services: Efficiency, Equity, and Economic Development"
“Economic Freedom and Well-Being: Evidence from the Academic Literature”
Daniel Griswold
Director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization & Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason UniversityJanuary 30, 2018
"Why America Needs More Immigrants"
"Why Free Trade is in America's National Interest"
George Crowley
Associate Professor of Economics, Troy UniversityOctober 19, 2017
"Voter Preferences, Institutions, and Economic Freedom"
"South Park and Public Choice Economics"
Swaminathan Aiyar
Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato InstituteOctober 30, 2017
"Economic Freedom in India"
"India: the Elephant that Became a Tiger" -
2016-2017
Dean Stansel
Research Associate Professor, Southern Methodist UniversityFebruary 9 & 10, 2017
"Economic Freedom: What It Is and Why It Matters"
"Why Some Cities are Growing While Others are Shrinking"
Kaitlyn Harger
Assistant Professor of Economics, Florida Gulf Coast UniversitySeptember 9, 2016
"Do Sports Facilities Attract New Business?"
"Obedience and Income Levels"
Yaron Brook
Chairman, Ayn Rand InstituteApril 19, 2017
Leon Kosal
University of TorontoMarch 30, 2017
“Contemporary Russian Capitalism"
Peter J. Boettke
University Professor of Economics & Philosophy, George Mason UniversityNovember 29, 2016
"Economics and Its Public Policy Relevance"
"Soviet Economic History and New Economic Policy" -
2015-2016
Jay P. Greene
Distinguished Professor and Head of Department of Education Reform, University of ArkansasJune 6, 2016
"The Foolishness of Trying to Regulate Our Way to School Improvement"
"Why We Need School Choice"
Steven G. Horwitz
John H. Schnatter Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise, Ball State UniversityJanuary 13, 2016
"The Great Depression: Myths and Realities"
"Inequality, Mobility, and Poverty in America"
Derek Scissors
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise InstituteOctober 29, 2015
"The Future Economic Prospects of India"
"Chinese Economic Reforms and Growth" -
2014-2015
Burt Folsom
Professor Emeritus, Hillsdale CollegeMarch 4, 2015
"The Myth of the Robber Barons"
John Lott
Crime Prevention Research CenterFebruary 11, 2015
"Why Criminals and Terrorists like Gun Bans"
"An Introduction to Law and Economics"
N. Gregory Mankiw
Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard UniversityMarch 27, 2015
"Income Inequality: Facts, Hypotheses, and Policy Prescriptions"
Fred McMahon
Resident Fellow, Dr. Michael A. Walker Research Chair in Economic Freedom, Fraser InstituteMarch 5, 2015
"Institutions and Economic, Political, and Civil Liberty in the Arab World"
Timur Kuran
Professor of Economics & Political Science, Duke UniversityNovember 18, 2014
"A History of Trade and Commerce in the Arab World"
Craig Richardson
Professor of Economics, Winston-Salem State UniversitySeptember 25, 2014
"Is China’s Growth Sustainable?"
"Africa Rising: What Can We Learn from the Continent’s Recent Successes (and Failures)?" -
2013-2014
Stephan F. Gohmann
BB&T Professor of Free Enterprise, University of LouisvilleJanuary 28, 2014
The Honorable Maurice McTigue
Vice President of Outreach, Mercatus Center at George Mason UniversityNovember 12, 2013
"The New Zealand Economic Miracle"
Joshua C. Hall
Associate Professor of Economics, West Virginia UniversityNovember 7, 2013
"The Benefits of Economic Freedom"
Benjamin Powell
Director, Free Market Institute, and Professor of Economics, Texas Tech UniversityFebruary 4, 2014
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2012-2013
Steven Radelet
Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development, Distinguished Professor of the Practice, and Director of the GHD Program, Georgetown UniversityFebruary 21, 2013
"The Great Era of Development"
