Past Events

Texas Economic Forum

• Can We Do Anything about High Housing Prices? with Nicole Nosek (Texans for Reasonable Solutions), W. Michael Cox (SMU), and Cullum Clark (SMU)
• What's Up in the Air? with Gary Leff (View from the Wing blogger) and Scott McCartney (former Wall Street Journal "Middle Seat" columnist)
• Stories from Our Dynamic State Economy with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Jesus Canas (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), and Mark Curriden (founder of The Texas Lawbook)
• Economic Freedom and Local Economies: What Does the Research Say? with Justin Callais (University of Louisiana-Lafayette), Adam Hoffer (Concordia University), Danielle Zanzalari (Seton Hall University), Dean Stansel (SMU)
• Can the Texas Model Survive? with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Cullum Clark (Bush Institute), Vance Ginn (Ginn Economic Consulting)
• The Texas Model and People of Color with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Peter Lewin (UTD), Frank Martin (Retired Professor)
• What's Next? Issues and Opportunities for the State's Economy with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Vance Ginn (Texas Public Policy Foundation), Pia Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
• DFW: The Improbable Economic Superstar with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Richard Alm (SMU), Susan Arledge (ESRP Realty Advisors), Susan Gwin Burks (Avison Young), Cullum Clark (SMU Bush Institute), Joe May (Dallas College)
• The DFW and Texas Economies: Bouncing Back from COVID-19 with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Dean Stansel (SMU), and Richard Alm (SMU)
• Disruption in the Energy Business: What's Next? with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Bruce Bullock (Maguire Energy Institute), and Bernard Weinstein (Maguire Energy Institute)
• The New NAFTA: Getting Down to Business with Alberto De La Pena (Haynes and Boone), Tim Leahy (AT&T Latin America), and Andres Alvarez (Foley Gardere) 
• Texico: The Texas-Mexico Partnership and Its Uncertain Future with W. Michael Cox (SMU) and Tiffany Melvin (NASCO)
• Trump and the Texas Economy with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Vance Ginn (Texas Public Policy Foundation), Merrill Matthews (Institute for Policy Foundation), and Doug McCullough (Lone Star Policy Institute)
• The Innovation Economy with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Ryan Dalton (Parsley Energy), Nick Clark (Common Desk), and Randy DeWitt (Front Burner Restaurants)
• The Entrepreneurial Edge with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Jerry White (Caruth Institute), and Hubert Zajicek (Health Wildcatters).
• Texas Economic Forum with W. Michael Cox (SMU), Bruce Bullock (Maguire Energy Institute), and Robert Kramp (CBRE Group).

Flourishing and a Free Society Forum (and other public events)

• Whole Foods Story: A Conversation with John Mackey (Whole Foods)
• Freedom and the Arts with Terry and Matt Kibbe (Free the People)
• The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised with James Pethokoukis (American Enterprise Institute)
• Women & Economic Freedom: What Does the Research Say? with Rosemarie Fike (Texas Christian University), Anne Rathbone Bradley (The Fund for American Studies), and Meg Tuszynski (SMU)
• The Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Dilemma: The Wrong Reasons or the Wrong Kind? with Jason Brennan (Georgetown University)
• A Conversation with Ed Glaeser on the Future of Cities (Harvard University), co-sponsored with The Bush Institute and SMU Department of Economics
• U.S. Pandemic Policy: Failures, Successes, and Lessons with Alex Tabarrok (Center for Study of Public Choice and Mercatus Center at George Mason University)
• The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics with Steven E. Landsburg (University of Rochester)
• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom with Yeonmi Park (Human-Rights Activist and North Korean Refugee and Defector)
• How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom with Matt Ridley (Columnist for The Telegraph and The Times, Member of the Science and Technology Select Committee for the House of Lords, Great Britain)
• The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions with Ben Powell (Texas Tech University) 
• The Role of Business in a Free Society with Tyler Cowen (George Mason University), Siri Terjesen (Florida Atlantic University), Jason Brennan (Georgetown University)
• Socialism Sucks with Robert Lawson (SMU) and Benjamin Powell (Texas Tech University)
• Can the Fed Predict? with Thomas Hogan (Rice University) and Harvey Rosenblum (SMU)
• Viewing of Short Film Tank Man with Panel Discussion with Robert Anthony Peters (Writer and Director), Dallas Sonnier (CINESTATE & FANGORIA), and Perth Tolle (Life & Liberty Indexes)
• Faith, Economics, and Public Policy from a Variety of Ideological Perspectives with Steve Long (SMU), Michael Davis, (SMU), Abby McCloskey (McCloskey Policy LLC & American Enterprise Institute), and Christine Emba (The Washington Post)
• Faith and the Free Market from a Variety of Religious Traditions with Rev. Robert Sirico (The Acton Institute), Art Carden (Samford University), Russ Roberts (Hoover Institution), and Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad (Minaret of Freedom Institute)
• The Role of Government in a Free Society with Walter E. Williams (George Mason University)
• How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World with Deirdre McCloskey (University of Illinois, Chicago)
• Is Bitcoin a Bubble? with William J. Luther (Kenyon College)
• How Economists Helped End the Draft with David Henderson (Hoover Institution)
• The Real Problem Was Nominal: Market Monetarism and the Great Recession with Scott Sumner (George Mason University)
• Your Next Government? From Nation State to Stateless Nations with Tom Bell (Chapman University)
• Cities and Economic Growth with Edward Glaeser (Harvard University)
• Who Needs the Fed? with John Tamny (Forbes)
• Garett Jones (George Mason University)
• Adam Martin (Texas Tech University)
• Lars Christensen (Markets and Money Advisory)
• Ben Powell (Texas Tech University)
• Peter Leeson (George Mason University)
• Michael Munger (Duke University)
• Arthur Brooks (American Enterprise Institute)
• Steve Forbes (Forbes)
• Jeffrey Tucker (Liberty.me and Foundation for Economic Education)
• David Boaz (Cato Institute)
• Roberto Salinas-Leon (TV Azteca)
• The Search for the Weaver of Dreams with Russ Roberts (Hoover Institution)
• Ladar Levison (Lavabit)
• Arthur Brooks (American Enterprise Institute)
• Art Laffer (Laffer Associates)
• Walter Williams (George Mason University)