Chris Coyne

Carden and Coyne on Liberal Arts vs. Research University

Liveblogging from the Career Development Seminar with Chris Coyne and Art Carden

1. Academic life at a liberal arts college.

Characteristics:

- Tend to be 5,000 students or fewer
- Main focus is undergrad
- Most students there are traditional, full-time, live on campus
- Even students in the hard sciences take part in the liberal arts curriculum.
- Teaching emphasis is often higher - 3-3 or 4-3 load is common
- Office hour requirements are higher
- Smaller classes with opportunities for interdisciplinary and co-taught courses with other faculty

Carden and Coyne on Academic Publishing

Liveblogging from the Career Development Seminar

Advice on Publishing:

- Grad school is the transition from being a consumer of scholarship to a producer. That product is original scholarship.

- Each discipline has its own emphasis on writing and different types of publishing. Be aware of what your field expects.

- Pick something that's doable. Write a dissertation, not a treatise.

Various Types of Research Paper Strategies:

1. The Small Twist - a new tweak on an existing idea. Lower impact, but a way to build up publications.

Podcast with Chris Coyne: The Economics of Valentine's Day

Jeanne Hoffman talks with Chris Coyne about the economics of Valentine’s Day. Dr. Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, a member of the Department of Economics at George Mason University and a North American editor of the Review of Austrian Economics. He also contributes to the blog Coordination Problem. Video of this podcast can also be watched at LearnLiberty.org.

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Chris Coyne: Government Intervention and the Structure of Social Capital

From Universidad Francisco Marroquín:

Government Intervention and the Structure of Social Capital


Christopher Coyne analyzes the effects of government interventions and the social capital. He emphasizes in the economic calculation that is possible through private property, which generates markets, and subsequently, generates prices that point out the opportunity cost to individuals. He discusses the results of such interventions and shows how it distorts the relative process of capital structure, also explaining that since government is non-profit, economic calculations cannot be engaged, and as a result the resources are not efficiently allocated; interventionism misrepresents the relative prices of the capital structure. Coyne presents two critiques to understand the dynamic of interventionism, the Austrian political economy and the public choice critique, both based on knowledge and motivational assumptions. Finally, he mentions that interveners are unable to assess the exact results of their intervention because of the complexity of the economy.

From the Archives, February 11

Video: Deirdre McCloskey on "Bourgeois Dignity"
Podcast with Chris Coyne: The Economics of Valentine's Day

Things we were talking about last year on Kosmos:

Video: Deirdre McCloskey on "Bourgeois Dignity"

Podcast with Chris Coyne: The Economics of Valentine's Day

Podcast: Liberty and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien: an interview with Dr. Brad Birzer

Chris Coyne: A Classical Liberal Researcher

Professor Chris Coyne talks about how to be a successful libertarian researcher and why he thinks scholars interested in libertarian ideas should have those ideas as the main driver of their research agenda. Professor Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center and a member of the Department of Economics at George Mason University.

Free Market Academics Around the Web November 25th

Adam Thierer ponders the "Twilight of Copyright?"

Tyler Cowen is a guest on the Diane Rehm show, talking about "The Future of the Occupy Movement"

In his Thanksgiving column for Forbes, Art Carden considers the importance of immigrants.

Chris Coyne also has some thoughts on Thanksgiving, "Be Thankful for the Makers"

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