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Professor Steve Horwitz discusses faculty self-governance, social change, and free speech in the academy. This lecture was adapted from his book chapter “Meaningful change comes from the shop floor: Generating, growing, and governing in liberal education” which appeared in the book Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance, edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright.
This lecture was delivered on April 20, 2018 at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.
Dr. Steven G. Horwitz is the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the Department of Economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. He is also an Affiliated Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center in Arlington, VA, and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute of Canada. He is the author of three books, including most recently Hayek's Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions. He has written extensively on Hayek and Austrian economics, monetary theory and history, and American economic history.
Professor Steve Horwitz discusses faculty self-governance, social change, and free speech in the academy. This lecture was adapted from his book chapter “Meaningful change comes from the shop floor: Generating, growing, and governing in liberal education” which appeared in the book Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance, edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright.
This lecture was delivered on April 20, 2018 at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.
Dr. Steven G. Horwitz is the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the Department of Economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. He is also an Affiliated Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center in Arlington, VA, and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute of Canada. He is the author of three books, including most recently Hayek's Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions. He has written extensively on Hayek and Austrian economics, monetary theory and history, and American economic history.
