May 2008 Meeting

"Defending Businessmen and Saving America"
by
Dr. Bradley Thompson
Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
Wednesday, May 28th
Summit Club (Founder's Lounge)

A friendly reminder: the meeting starts promptly at noon.

C. Bradley Thompson is the BB&T Research Professor at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He has also been a visiting fellow at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London.

Professor Thompson is the author of the prize-winning book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty. He has also edited The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader and was an associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. His current book project is on “The Ideological Origins of American Constitutionalism."

Dr. Thompson is also an occasional writer for The Times Literary Supplement of London. He has lectured around the country on education reform and the American Revolution, and his op-ed essays have appeared in scores of newspapers around the country and abroad. Dr. Thompson's lectures on the political thought of John Adams have twice appeared on C-SPAN television.

RSVP to Kathryn Robinson

Health Care Reform on the Nation's Agenda

This is a copy of the presentation by Dr. Robert Sade of MUSC to the Columbia Economics Club on February 12, 2008.

Read this doc on Scribd: Health Care Reform on the Nation's Agenda

Dr. Robert Sade on Health Care

Dr. Robert Sade of MUSC was our speaker at our last meeting of the 2007 - 2008 year. Here are a few of his comments.

"Under the current health care system in the United States, when people purchase $1.00 of health care, they only use 10 cents of their own money."

"The structure of society should reflect the needs of most people, not the least competent."

"In the last hundred years, sanitary engineers have saved more lives than doctors."

How to Fix Healthcare

Attention Members!

Please join us for our next meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, February 12th at the Summit Club (East Room). The meeting will start promptly at noon.

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Robert M. Sade, M.D. and his topic will be:

"Health Care Reform on the Nation's Agenda: Ethical Foundations, Policy Goals, and How to Get There"

Robert Sade is a pediatric cardiac surgeon, Professor of Surgery, and Director of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has written several hundred articles, book chapters, and books on cardiothoracic surgery, medical education, biomedical ethics, and health policy, currently serves as an editor of both the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and the Journal of Philosophy and Medicine, and has edited over a dozen special symposium issues in peer-review journals on bioethics topics.

Dr. Sade currently chairs the Ethics Committee of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, and chairs the Standards and Ethics Committee of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He was a member of the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for seven years, and recently retired as chair of the Council.

Please keep in mind that only members and their guests will be invited to join us for luncheon. If you still have yet to confirm your membership or have any questions, please feel free to contact our membership chair, Matthew McFadden at 803-251-3264.

Please RSVP by Monday, February 11th to Kathryn Robinson at 803-251-3267 or via email.

October 2007 Meeting!

"Economics at the Pump:
An Application of Experimental Economics to Policy"

by

Dr. Bart Wilson, George Mason University

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Date: Thursday, October 25
Location: Palmetto Club (Frank Smith Room)
Time: Noon Luncheon
Parking: First Citizens Parking Garage (underground) via Lady Street
RSVP: Kathryn Robinson at 803-251-3267 or Email
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Dr. Bart Wilson studies the relatively new field of experimental economics, a groundbreaking and successful effort to apply scientific standards of proof to economic questions in reproducible laboratory work.

In this fun and interactive presentation, you will actually participate in experimental economics, demonstrating how well-intentioned interventions by the government backfire because they cannot account for the complex incentives in an intricate industry.

You will enjoy a brief introduction to the background of experimental economics. Then, you will work on a portable laboratory of networked computers and gain firsthand experience with experimental economics.

Please join us on Thursday, October 25th, at the Palmetto Club (Frank Smith Room).

Remember there is free parking for the Palmetto Club in the First Citizens Parking Garage (underground) which is accessed via Lady Street behind the club.

The meeting will start promptly at noon.

Please keep in mind that only members and their guests will be invited to join us for this upcoming luncheon. If you still have yet to confirm your membership or have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at 251-3290.

Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 23rd to Kathryn Robinson at 251-3267.

Change in Location!

NOTICE TO MEMBERS

The August 2007 meeting of the Columbia Economics Club featuring Michael Santoli has been moved to the Palmetto Club.

Same time, same date.

We apologize for the change. We ran into a schedule conflict with the Summit Club for this date and this date only.

We expect to return to the Summit Club in the near future.

Barron's Editor to Speak to CEC

"BOOM OR GLOOM?
Risks and Opportunities in the Economy"

Michael Santoli
Associate Editor for Barron's
Dow Jones & Co., New York

Noon at The Palmetto Club
The McMeekin Room
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
Columbia, South Carolina
RSVP to Kathryn Kennedy
803-251-3267

Michael Santoli is an Associate Editor for Barron's, The Dow Jones Business and Financial Weekly. He writes the “Streetwise” column, offering a forward-looking take on the financial markets, illuminating market trends and identifying investment opportunities. Mr. Santoli is a regular on-air contributor to the CNBC cable network, including appearances every Friday evening and Monday morning to discuss investment ideas from each week’s Barron’s.

RSVP to Kathryn Kennedy