Dr. Bradley K. Hobbs, the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise at Florida Gulf Coast University, spoke to the CEC on 4.3.13 at the Palmetto Club. His topic was “What’s to Love About Capitalism?”.
The CEC got an oppurtunity to meet with Edward Lopez at the Palmetto Club on 2.6.13. Ed is an economics professor at Western Carolina University and also the president of the Public Choice Society and a regional editor for the Americas of the Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy. He is a former staff economist for the U.S. Congress and the Institute for Humane Studies. His topic was, “Two Madmen, an Intellectual, and an Academic Scribbler Walk into a Bar…”
On 12.3.12, the CEC met with Hyperion Knight at the Palmetto Club. Hyperion is an internatonal concert pianist and his topic was “Music & Economics: Part II”.
Mark Vitner, a Senior Economist at Wells Fargo, met with the CEC at the Palmetto Club on 11.13.12 to discuss his topic, “Looking Over the Fiscal Cliff into 2013”.
The CEC welcomed Dr. Bernard Weinstein, who is an economist and the Associate Director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University, on 8.23.12 at the Summit Club. He presented on “The New Era of U.S. Energy Abundance”.
Dr. Nick Capaldi asked, “Is America Facing Economic and Cultural Armageddeon?” at the CEC meeting at 300 Senate Street on 9.28.11. Dr. Capaldi is from Loyola University Business Ethics and serves as Director of the National Center for Business Ethics.
On 3.2.11, the CEC met at Hennessey’s Resteraunt & Lounge. Jodie Beggs, author of “Economists Do It With Models” and freelance economist out of Harvard, discussed “Behavioral Economics and the Creation of Value”
Peter Calcagno, an Associate Professor of Economics at the College of Charlston met with us at the Palmetto Club on 2.9.11 to discuss his topic: “Taking the Initiative: Public Choice Economics at the College of Charlston”
The CEC welcomed speaker Dr. Frank Machovec of Wofford University’s Department of Economics to the Summit Club on 7.15.2010. Dr. Machovec spoke to us about “An Updated Appraisal of Schumpeter’s 1942 Forecast of Capitalism’s Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts”.