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Gordon
Lloyd is the John M. Olin
Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He did graduate
work at the University of Chicago where he studied with two Nobel
laureates in economics, Milton Friedman and George Stigler, as well
as noted political theorist Leo Strauss. His career has been focused
on bringing together the disciplines of politics and economics in
order to illuminate public policy.
In addition to a distinguished
professional career, he has achieved fame as a gifted teacher of summer
seminars for high school teachers under the aegis of Liberty Fund
as well as the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States
Constitution. He is an accomplished speaker and an extremely engaging
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The Intellectual Foundations
of the Political Economy
Gordon Lloyd
Wednesday-Sunday October
24-28, 2001
Chapman Lecture Hall
University of Tulsa
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In
the twentieth century, the disciplines of political science and
economics have become more and more separated and each has developed
its own language and methodology. One consequence of this separation
has been the tendency to neglect the important theoretical and
practical interconnections between the two disciplines as well
as to overlook the teachings of experience that perhaps a vital
relationships exists between a certain kind of political regime
and a specific kind of economic order. The purpose of this seminar
is to provide the current generation of college students with
an opportunity to revisit the eighteenth and nineteenth century
connections between politics and economics – as exemplified in
the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, James Madison, John Stuart
Mill, and Karl Marx – and to explore the work of four twentieth
century political economists – F.A. Hayek, John Kenneth Galbraith,
Milton Friedman, and Michael Harrington – on the proper role of
the government in the operation of the economy. In particular,
we want to reflect on the following questions: are a democratic
political regime and a liberal economic order interdependent and
how have the intellectual foundations of a political economy shifted
over the centuries and with what consequences? This opportunity
to explore the intellectual origins and development of political
economy is rarely available to college students.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
Readings in Political Economy,
Gordon Lloyd, Manuscript, 2001.
An Inquiry into the Nature
and Causes of Wealth, 2
volumes, Adam Smith, Liberty Fund, Inc. 1981.
Political Economy and the
New Deal, Lloyd
and Udrys, Manuscript, 2001.
The Road to Serfdom,
F.A. Hayek, The University
of Chicago Press, 1994.
The Affluent Society,
John Kenneth Galbraith,
Houghton Mifflin, Co. 1998
Capitalism and Freedom,
Milton Friedman, The
University of Chicago Press, 1982.
The Other America, Michael
Harrington, Touchtone, Simon & Schuster, 1997.
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