Category Archives: Speaker

Dr. Nick Capaldi

Nick CapaldiDr. 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.

Jodie Beggs

JodieBeggsOn 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”

Dr. Frank Machovec

frankmachovecThe 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”.

Richard Ebeling

Richard Ebeling, the Shelby C. Davis
Visiting Professor in Economics at Trinity
College in Hartford, CT, and formerly the president of the Foundation for Economic Education, spoke to the CEC on November 12, 2008. His topic was “The Bailout Boondoggle: Blaming Capitalism for Government Blunders”.

Russ S. Sobel

Russ Sobel is Professor of Economics and holder of the James Clark Coffman Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at West Virginia University. He has published numerous books and articles on economic policy, including a nationally-best-selling collegiate Principles of Economics textbook.
He visited on November 4th, 2008 and his topic was “Unleashing Capitalism”.

Matt Kibbe

Matt Kibbe, President of FreedomWorks spoke on July 1st, 2008. His topic was “The Mortgage Crisis and the Economy: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?”. FreedomWorks is a non-profit organization designed to fight for lower taxes. less government, and more economic freedom for Americans.

Dr. Bradley Thomson

C. Bradley Thomson, BB&T Research Professor at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, visited the CEC May 28th, 2008 to discuss his topic “Defending Businessmen and Saving America”.