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We hope you enjoyed our time with Dr. Weinstein!

Matthew McFadden

Please join us for our next meeting with Dr. Weinstein!

Speaker: Dr. Bernard Weinstein (economist and associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University)

Date: Thursday, August 23^rd

Time: 12 noon

Place: The Summit Club (where we usually meet)

Topic: “The New Era of U.S. Energy Abundance”

Dues: $250

RSVP: Monday, August 20^th

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Next Columbia Economics Club meeting: 9/28/11

Next Meeting: Wednesday September 28th, 2011 @ 12 noon

300 Senate Street restaurant

Our Speaker will be Dr. Nick Capaldi

His topic will be:

"Is America Facing Economic and Cultural Armageddon?"

Next Columbia Economics Club Meeting: July 13, 2011

Please join us for our next Columbia Economics Club meeting where Les and Tyler Watts will be speaking on the topic of:

FARM SUBSIDIES: WHAT WILLIE NELSON DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!

When: Wednesday, July 13 2011

Where: The Summit Club (top of Wilbur Smith building)

Time: Noon

Need More info? contact matthew.mcfadden@ms.com

Next Columbia Economics Club Meeting: March 2, 2011

Jodi's topic will be:

"Behavioral Economics and the Creation of Value"

Jodi Beggs is best described as a freelance economist. She has taught economics at both the undergraduate and graduate level, is an editor for an online learning company, and writes about economics on her web site "Economists Do It With Models" and for various other publications. Her overall goal is to make economics an interesting and accessible topic of discussion both in the classroom and in the media, since it is her view that understanding basic economics is crucial to running an effective household, being a smart voter, and generally not sucking at life. Jodi has a Master's degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Our next meeting will be held at Hennessy's Restaurant & Lounge:

Hennessy's:

1649 Main Street

Columbia, SC 29201

ph: (803) 799-8280

http://www.hennessyssc.com/

(Hennessy's is on Main Street, across from the Tapp's building in downtown Columbia)

to RSVP to this meeting, please e-mail Matthew McFadden at matthew.mcfadden@ms.com or you may call him at (803) 251-3264

Next Meeting: Wednsday, Feb. 9 2011 at 12 Noon

Taking the Initiative: Public Choice Economics at the College of Charleston

Peter Calcagno is an Associate Professor of Economics at the College of Charleston. He earned his B.S. in Economics and History from Hillsdale College and Ph.D. in Economics from Auburn University. Professor Calcagno has previously worked at Wingate University, Jacksonville State University, and Georgia State University. He is particularly interested in Public Choice Economics, and Political Economy. In 2008 he received the School of Business and Economics Distinguished Teaching Award. He is currently the founding director of the undergraduate program the Initiative for Public Choice & Market Process, which seeks to advance the understanding of the economic, political and moral foundations of a free society.

Where: The Palmetto Club (formerly the Summit Club)
When: 12 noon lunch -- please arrive before noon
Non-members and guests: $25
RSVP: Kathryn Robinson

Dr. Frank Machovec: July 15th 2010

Please join us for our next meeting which will be held on Thursday, July 15^th, at the Summit Club. The meeting will start promptly at noon. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Frank Machovec, from Wofford’s Department of Economics, and his topic will be:

An Updated Appraisal of Schumpeter's 1942 Forecast of Capitalism's Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts

For more about Dr. Machovec click here:

About Dr. Machovec’s topic:

Joseph Schumpeter, champion of the entrepreneur and longtime professor of economics at Harvard, in 1942 predicted that capitalism's demise would be the product of the undermining effects of the incentive-destroying termites bred by welfare-state policies whose collective goal is not merely to provide a general increase in opportunity through a minimum level of social insurance and impartial treatment under the law, but rather, equal opportunity by repealing, via compensatory schemes, all of life's random sources of 'unfairness', thereby radically broadening the classical notion of justice to include that which is otherwise unattainable without a divine rescripting of human existence….