"Yet, although the problem of an appropriate social order is today studied from the different angles of economics, jurisprudence, political science, sociology, and ethics, the problem is one which can be approached successfully only as a whole." - F. A. Hayek
Dr. Anthony Carilli
Director
Phone: (434) 223-6314
Email:
tcarilli@hsc.edu
Office Address
Center for the Study of Political
Economy
Morton Hall
P.O. Box 823
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
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 Dr. Steven Horwitz
Wal-Mart To The Rescue: Private Enterprise's Response To Hurricane Katrina
February 15, 2010
by Craig Gurchinoff
Recently, Dr. Steven Horwitz came to talk about the response of private enterprise to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When the storm subsided, a tremendous amount of media attention was paid to the clumsy rescue-operation mustered by the Federal Emergency Management Association. Nevertheless, Dr. Horwitz, a distinguished professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, travelled to Hampden-Sydney to share an underemphasized story of how on-site private enterprise spearheaded crucial relief efforts spanning the disaster area. Full Story...
Dr. Paul Cantor
South Park and Homeland Insecurity: The Imaginationland Trilogy
January 28, 2010
by Craig Gurchinoff
On the evening of January 28th, Hampden Sydney College and the Center For Study of Political Economy kicked off the new decade with flare, welcoming Dr. Paul Cantor to speak on the socio-political nuances which lie just beneath the crust of such eminent programs as South Park, 24, and Seinfeld. Dr. Cantor, professor of English at the University of Virginia, was thoroughly knowledgeable in the affairs of both popular and obscure media. Frankly, I was astonished at the synthesis the man represented. Having studied under Ludwig von Mises in New York City—at only fifteen years of age—Dr. Cantor is one of the last living disciples of the great [Austrian] economist. At first glance, the framework seems to fall clumsily onto his legitimate obsession with South Park (at one point during the lecture, he exclaimed “Timmah!”) and his comfort with the offensive. Nevertheless, Dr. Cantor successfully vanquished a brittle rumor, which would have uninformed intellectuals believe that South Park is “just potty humor…to be dismissed as mere obscenity.” Full Story...
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