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Fifth Annual Fall Symposium: Understanding the Tea Party: A Tradition in American Politics
The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government and the Civic Leadership Program at the University of Illinois hosted the Fifth Annual Fall Symposium on the ongoing public controversy and debate about the correct role of government in addressing America’s continuing economic crisis, corporate bailouts, and social unrest.
Speakers:
- Professor Steve Davies, Institute for Economic Affairs, London
- Professor Eric Hadley-Ives, University of Illinois-Springfield
- Professor Jeff Scott, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fourth Annual Academy Symposium
Now More Than Ever: The Case for Limited Government
The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation sponsored its Fourth Annual Academy Symposium on September 30th featuring professor Richard Epstein. Further details available here.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Series
Inaugural Debate: Health Care
The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation sponsored the recent debate on Health Care. The debate was well received and attended by a large public audience.
Speakers
Michael Tanner is a Senior Fellow at the CATO Institute.
Steffie Woolhandler is a professor of Medicine at Harvard and co-director of the Harvard Medical School General Interval Medicine Fellowship Program.
- Held: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- Video Links
Law
Professor Andrew Morriss
Funding to bring Donald Kates to spring freshman honors class. Kates, a seminal figure in 2nd Amendment rights, played a pivotal role in developing scholarship that ultimately led to Heller.
- Meeting Time: Spring 2010
- Class syllabus: N/A
- Donald Kates biography
Executive MBA Program
Professor Rajshree Agarwal
Funding to bring CEO of Lilly Research Laboratories to speak on the importance of private enterprise to innovation and change in the pharmaceutical industry
- Meeting Time: Spring 2010
- Syllabus: N/A
"Fact & Comment"
By Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief
Forbes, 9/3/2009
(in a tribute to Robert Novak)
"Robert Novak was one of the first to actually understand supply-side economics. One of the highlights of my life was two years ago when Bob urged me to participate in the inaugural forum put on by the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An alumnus of the university, Novak was the principal speaker and moderator. Immensely flattered, I accepted." (Full text)
Susan E. Dudley on campus
Academy funding brought Susan E. Dudley to campus to speak to the College of Law’s Administrative Law class on October 2, 2009.
Ms. Dudley is currently the Director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and previously served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (April 2007 through January 2009), where she was responsible for the review of draft executive branch regulations under Executive Order 12866, the collection of federal-government-wide information under the Paperwork Reduction Act, the development and implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information policy, privacy, and statistical policy, and international regulatory cooperation efforts. Prior to OIRA, she directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and taught courses on regulation at the George Mason University School of Law.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Dudley served as an economist at OIRA, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She was also a consultant to government and private clients at Economists Incorporated. She holds a Master of Science degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Third Annual Conference
The Academy held its Third Annual Conference on October 1, 2009 on the Urbana campus. Economist and Wall Street Journal contributer, Stephen Moore, delivered the keynote - "Are We Regulating Capitalism Out of Existence?" Conference co-chairs - Professor Rajshree Agarwal and Jeffry Brown. See conference details here.
Second Annual Conference
Billed as the Schumpeter Symposium for 2008, the Second Annual Conference was hosted by Champaign's new I Hotel over the U of I Foundation Annual Meeting weekend.
A packed ballroom of 350 or so students, faculty and Academy friends heard Carl Schramm deliver the keynote (view the keynote address) followed by a round-table discussion led by moderator/economist J. Fred Giertz. Panelists included four distinguished UIUC faculty members—Professors Rajshree Agarwal (John Georges Professor of Technology Management and Strategy), Jude C. Hays (assistant professor of political science), Stephen C. Parente (associate professor of economics) and Thomas S. Ulen (Swanlund Chair and Director of the Program in Law and Economics).
Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, is a Batten Fellow in the Darden School, University of Virginia and co-author of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, now available in seven languages and recently named one of the "Top Ten Books That Drive Debate" by the National Chamber Foundation.
ACLG Inaugural Conference
Check out our video clips of the September 27, 2007 event
Steve Forbes and Robert Novak
- Steve Forbes - Five Basic Principles Economic Growth
- Robert Novak - Introductory Speech