Economics Speaker Series
Burt Barnow of George Washington University (right) is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for his presentation on "Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences and Cures" in the 2013 Fall Seminar Series.
JMU's William Wood (left) is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for his talk on "Supreme Court Justices' Ownership of Common Stock: Recusal and the Roberts Court" in the Fall 2013 Seminar Series.
JMU's Barkley Rosser (left) and Ehsan Ahmed (right) kicked off the 2013 Fall Seminar Series with presentation of their paper, "Are There Speculative Bubbles in Commodities Prices?"
JMU's Barkley Rosser (left) welcomes American University's Robert Blecker for the closing seminar in the 2013 Spring Seminar Series for a presentation on "Trade Liberalization and the Balance of Payments Constraint with Intermediate Imports: The Case of Mexico Revisited."
JMU's Barkley Rosser (right) welcomes Daniel Berkowitz from the University of Pittsburgh for his presentation on "The Real and Financial Implications of Property Rights Enforcement: Evidence from a Chinese Natural Experiment."
Bob Subrick (left) and Barkley Rosser (right) welcome Sahar Akhtar from the University of Virginia for her presentation on "A Right to Migrate and Way of Life Freedom."
JMU's Angela Smith is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for the initial 2013 Spring Seminar. Dr. Smith presented her paper on "Belief Elicitation with a Simple Lottery Choice Menu."
Bob Subrick (left) and Barkley Rosser (right) welcome Tyler Cowen from George Mason University for his presentation on "The Great Stagnation" in the final installment of the 2012 Fall Seminer Series.
Barkley Rosser (right) welcomes JMU's Suraj Jacob for his presentation on "History, Democracy, and Regional Development: Some Cases from South India."
The Fall 2012 Economics Seminar Series kicked off with Robert Putnam of Harvard University speaking about trends in religiosity in his JIN Lecture in Political Economy entitled "Religion and Social Capital in American Life."
The JMU Center for Economic Education hosted area high school teachers for an Economics Institute in July 2012. Pictured are the teachers, along with instructors William C. Wood and Lynne Stover from the Center. The teachers are preparing for a new required class in economics and personal finance that all Virginia high school graduates must complete, starting with the class of 2015. Find out more at http://www.jmu.edu/cob/CoB2/CoB_News.shtml#cee
JMU's Bob Subrick (left) is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for the final seminar of Spring 2012 for his presentation on "Weber vs. Smith: The Role of Religion in Economic Development."
Barkley Rosser (right) welcomes Herbert Gintis of Santa Fe Institute for the JIN Lecture in Political Economy for his presentation on "The Evolution of Morality."
Barkley Rosser (left) welcomes John Earle of George Mason University for his presentation on "Comparative Institutional Analysis, Economics vs. Sociology, and Wage Contracts."
JMU's Panayotis Gianakouros (left) is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for his presentation on "Mathematics for Post-Crises Economics" in the Spring 2012 Seminar Series.
Emily Skarbek (left) of San Jose University, is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for her presentation on "The Chicago Fire: The Political Economy of Polycentric Disaster Relief" in the Spring 2012 Seminar Series.
JMU's Bob Subrick (left) and Barkley Rosser (right) welcome Peter Leeson of George Mason University for his presentation on "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates" in the Spring 2012 Seminar Series.
Anne Krueger, distinguished scholar and past president of the American Economics Association, is welcomed by Bob Subrick for her presentation on "The Need for Strengthened Multilateral Institutions in the Global Financial Crisis" as part of the JIN Lecture Series in Fall 2011.
Lawrence White (left) of George Mason University is welcomed by Bob Subrick for his presentation on "From Pleasant Deficit Spending to Unpleasant Sovereign Debt Crises" in the Fall 2011 Seminar Series.
Peter Grajzl (left) of Washington and Lee University is welcomed by Bob Subrick. Grajzl spoke on "Information Sharing and the Volume of Private Credit in Transition" in the Fall 2011 Seminar Series.
Andrew Young (left) of West Virginia University is welcomed by Bob Subrick for his presentation on "It's a Small World After All: Internet Access, Emotional Contagion and Institutional Quality" in the Fall 2011 Seminar Series.
David Skarbek (left) of Duke University is welcomed by Bob Subrick for his talk on "Governance and Prison Gangs" in the 2011 Fall Seminar Series.
More than 400 elementary and middle school students convened at the JMU Convocation Center on May 27, 2011 for the annual Global Entrepreneurship Marketplace (GEM) Fair, which is sponsored by the JMU Center for Economic Education and Shenandoah Valley Economic Education, Inc. The students made products in classroom societies and brought the products to JMU for the Fair, a simulation of international trade.
Barkley Rosser welcomes Laura Razzolini of Virginia Commonwealth University for her talk on "Impure Altruism in Dictators' Giving" in the Spring 2011 Seminar Series.
Barkley Rosser welcomes Sandra Peart of the University of Richmond for her presentation on "If Germs Could Spawn Research: Reflections on Sympathy Between Subjects and Researchers" in the Spring 2011 Seminar Series.
JMU's Nevin Cavusoglu is welcomed by Barkley Rosser in the Spring 2011 Seminar Series. Professor Cavusoglu's presentation was on "A LISREL Growth Model on Direct and Indirect Effects Using Cross-Country Data."
Barkley Rosser and Bob Subrick welcome Deidre McCloskey for the Spring 2011 JIN Lecture in Political Economy. McCloskey spoke on "Why Economics, Left or Right, Cannot Explain the Modern World."
JMU's Suraj Jacob (right) is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for his presentation on "Welfare Policy Regimes and Development: A Natural Experiment from South India."
JMU's Andre Neveu (right) is welcomed by Barkley Rosser in the Fall 2010 Seminar Series. Professor Neveu spoke on "Fiscal Policy in a Heterogeneous Agent Macro Model".
William Neilson (left) of the University of Tennessee is welcomed by Barkley Rosser in the Fall 2010 Seminar Series. Neilson spoke on "The Effects of Group Membership in a Strategic Environment."
Christopher Coyle (left) is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for his presentation on "The Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention" in the Fall 2010 Seminar Series.
M. Ali Khan (right) of Johns Hopkins University is welcomed by Barkley Rosser in the Fall 2010 Seminar Series. Khan spoke on "The Theory of Perfect Competition Historically Contemplated."
JMU's Barkley Rosser (left) joins Ehsan Ahmed in a presentation on "Financial Development and Bubbles: The Case of the Karachi Stock Exchange of Pakistan" in the Fall 2010 Seminar Series.
Barkley Rosser welcomes Nassim Taleb (left), noted "Black Swan" author, to JMU's second JIN Lecture in Political Economy in Fall 2011.
Richard Wagner (center) of George Mason University is welcomed by Bob Subrick and Barkley Rosser for his presentation on "A Macro Economy as an Emergent Ecology of Plans" in the Spring 2010 Seminar Series.
Timur Kuran (second from left) of Duke University is welcomed by Barkley Rosser, Richard Fink and Bob Subrick. Kuran spoke on "Islam and Underdevelopment: Legal Roots of Economic Stagnation in the Middle East" in the Spring 2010 Seminar Series.
David Stockman (left) of the University of Delaware is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for his presentation on "Euler Equation Branching and Chaotic Dynamics" in the Spring 2010 Seminar Series.
Oleg Korenock (left) of Virginia Commonwealth University is welcomed by Barkley Rosser for his presentation on "Normal Price Shocks in Monopolistically Competitive Markets: An Experimental Analysis" in the Spring 2010 Seminar Series.
Steven Smith (left) of George Washington University is welcomed by Barkley Rosser in the Fall 2009 Seminar Series. Smith spoke on an innovative program to relieve "ultra poverty" in Bangladesh.
David Kreutzer, formerly a member of the JMU economics faculty and now a senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, spoke on "The Economic Impact of Climate Legislation: Postage Stamps or Car Payments" in the Fall 2009 Seminar Series.
JMU's Barkley Rosser kicked off the Fall 2009 Seminar Series with his paper "Nonlinear Dynamics of Urban and Regional Systems."
JMU's Bob Horn (left) and Bob Jerome (center) are welcomed by Barkley Rosser to the Spring 2009 Seminar Series.
Peter Boettke (right) of George Mason University is welcomed by Barkley Rosser to the JMU Economics Seminar Series.
Vernon L. Smith receives a JMU economics t-shirt after delivering a lecture in the Economics Seminar Series. Smith was named 2002 Nobel laureate in economics.
Thomas Schelling (right) of the University of Maryland is welcomed by Barkley Rosser to the JMU Economics Seminar Series. Schelling was named 2005 Nobel laureate in economics.
Hundreds of students from Shenandoah Valley schools convene for the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Marketplace (GEM) Fair sponsored by the JMU Center for Economic Education.
The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO), an internationally recognized economics journal, and the JMU College of Business hosted a conference, "Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Economic Complexity," on May 16-17, 2008. The conference assembled experts in the areas of mathematics, physics and economics from Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Italy and other European countries. Here, Barkley Rosser and Marina Rosser, both economics professors at JMU, introduce speakers and topics at the conference.