Renaissance or Decline? Political Economy

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Renaissance or Decline? Political Economy

HON 3970

Taught by:

David Ray, Dean, Honors College
Kyle Harper, Director, Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage
David Chappell, Professor, Department of History

Who invite you to public lectures by our esteemed guests

This course is about the relationship between political economy and the American social compact (based on equality of opportunity) over the last generation, and in the near-term future by exploring some of the most provocative and important social and economic commentary from recent years.

Public Lecture Series

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All events free and open to the public. For information, or accommodation to events on the basis of disability, contact: Lisa Tucker at – ljtucker@ou.edu or 405-325-9088.

Evgeny Morozov

Author of “To Save Everything, Click Here: Folly of Technological Solutionism”
Tuesday, January 27 at 6:00 p.m.
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Auditorium

Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. In 2010-2012 Morozov was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. In 2009-2010 he was a fellow at Georgetown University and in 2008-2009 a fellow at the Open Society Foundations (where he also sat on the board of the Information Program between 2008 and 2012). Between 2006 and 2008 Morozov was Director of New Media at Transitions Online. He has written for The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. His monthly Slate column is syndicated in El Pais, Corriere della Sera, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Folha de S.Paulo and several other newspapers.

Tyler Cowen

Author of "Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Get Better”
Monday, February 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Auditorium

Tyler Cowen is an American economist, academic, and writer. He occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics as a professor at George Mason University and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Cowen and Tabarrok have also ventured into online education by starting Marginal Revolution University. He currently writes the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times, and he also writes for such publications as The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, and the Wilson Quarterly. Cowen also serves as general director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy. In February 2011, Cowen received a nomination as one of the most influential economists in the last decade through a survey by The Economist. He was ranked #72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine, "for finding markets in everything".

Gerald Davis

Author of “Managed by the Markets”
Tuesday, March 24 at 6:00 p.m.
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Auditorium

Jerry Davis received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published widely in management, sociology, and finance. Recent books include Social Movements and Organization Theory (with Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald; Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives (with W. Richard Scott; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007). He is the Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organization Studies (ICOS) at the University of Michigan.

Julia Ott

Author of “When Wall Street Met Main Street”
Tuesday, April 7 at 6:00 p.m.
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Auditorium

Julia Ott received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2007. Dr. Ott was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2009-2010. She is currently an Associate Professor of History at the Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. In her most recent book, When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2011), Julia Ott tells the story of how, between the rise of giant industrial corporations and the Crash of 1929, the federal government, corporations, and financial institutions campaigned to universalize investment, with the goal of providing individual investors with a stake in the economy and the nation. As these distributors of stocks and bonds established a broad, national market for financial securities, they debated the distribution of economic power, the proper role of government, and the meaning of citizenship under modern capitalism.

All events free and open to the public. For information, or accommodation to events on the basis of disability, contact: Lisa Tucker at – ljtucker@ou.edu or 405-325-9088.