2024 Markets & Society Conference

October 11–14, 2024 | Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA

Keynote Speakers

• Paul Dragos Aligica — KPMG Professor of Governance, University of Bucharest; Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center

• Nava Ashraf — Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Margaret Levi — Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

• David Schmidtz — Professor and Presidential Chair of Moral Science, Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University

• Mario L. Small — Chair and Quetelet Professor of Social Science, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

  Conference Program

  The full conference program is available here.

2023 Markets & Society Conference

October 20–23, 2023 | Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA

Keynote Speakers

• Kwame Anthony Appiah — Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University

• Nina Bandelj — Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

• Christopher J. Coyne — Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center

• Chandran Kukathas — Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University

• Emma Rothschild* — Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University; University of Glasgow Templeton Adam Smith Tercentenary Fellow

*This lecture is part of the University of Glasgow’s Smith@300: Celebrating Adam Smith as Scholar, Educator, and Citizen supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Conference Program

The full conference program is available here.

2022 Markets & Society Conference

October 21–24, 2022 | Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA

Keynote Speakers

• Peter J. Boettke — University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University; Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

• Deirdre N. McCloskey — Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and History, Professor Emerita of English and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago; Distinguished Affiliated Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

• Mario J. Rizzo — Professor of Economics & Director of the Foundations of the Market Economy Program, New York University

• Viviana A. Zelizer — Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University 

Conference Program

The full conference program is available here.

Thanks to our generous donors, especially the John Templeton Foundation.