Below is a collection of recorded events hosted by the Political Economy Research Institute at MTSU:

Machiavelli's Prince as a Rational Political Actor

with Dr. Ennio Piano (MTSU Asst. Professor of Economics/PERI)
March 14, 2022
Exegesis - MTSU Honors Lecture Series
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"The State of the Liberal Project: The Struggle for a Better World"

with Dr. Peter Boettke (George Mason University)
Oct. 21, 2021
Dr. Ming Wang's Cosmopolitan Initiative Lecture Series
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Macro Musings: Money and the Rule of Law

with Daniel Smith, Ph.D., Alexander Salter, Ph.D., with host David Beckworth
Macro Musings Podcast - Live at MTSU
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Why It's OK to Want to Be Rich

with Dr. Jason Brennan (Georgetown University)
April 20, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT)
M. Thomas and Martha R. Collins Free Enterprise Lecture
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Culture, Capitalism, and Gender Equality

with Dr. Claudia Williamson (University of Tennessee - Chattanooga)
March 18, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT)
Co-sponsored by MTSU's National Women's History Month Committee
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Criminal Justice and Policing Reform in Tennessee

with Zuri Davis
Feb. 18, 2021

Kickstarting K-12 Education in Tennessee

with Dr. Corey DeAngelis (Reason Foundation, Educational Freedom Institute)
Nov. 19, 2020

Innovation and Freedom

with Matt Ridley
Nov. 5, 2020

Campus Liberty Tour Debate at MTSU: Will a Wealth Tax Increase Prosperity?

with Dr. Arthur Laffer and Leslie Marshall
Oct. 5, 2020

Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science

with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Sept. 22, 2020

Reforming Policing in Tennessee

with Radley Balko (Washington Post)
Sept. 22, 2020

Uncle Sam Can't Count

with Dr. Burt Folsom (Kennesaw State University)
Sept. 16, 2020

Frederick Douglass' Plea for Free Speech and Open Inquiry

with Dr. Nicholas Buccola (Linfield University)
Feb. 21, 2020

Criminal Justice Reform

with Dr. Howard Henderson (Texas Southern University)
MTSU Distinguished Lecture Series
Oct. 31, 2019