For release: Nov. 7, 2012
Editorial contact: Michael
Hammock, 615-898-5749 or Michael.Hammock@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — The
MTSU Department of Economics and Finance will host professor Douglas W. Allen
for a guest lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9. The event, which is open to the
public, will be held in the College of
Education building, Room 160.
Allen will give a lecture titled “The Institutional Revolution: What Happened to Dueling, Aristocrats,
Indentured Servants, and the Town Watch?” Allen is Burnaby Mountain
Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and his
book “The Institutional Revolution” was published in 2011.
A review of the book posted on the University of Chicago Press Books’
website by the Times Literary Supplement stated the following:
“What are the connections among aristocrats, duels, private
lighthouses and private police forces in the conduct of early modern economies?
Douglas W. Allen in ‘The Institutional
Revolution’ brings together a whole series of customs and behaviors we
now associate with irrational premodern practices and shows the part they
played as informal institutions to ensure the provision of civil service goods
before the nineteenth century.”
The lecture will last about an hour, with 15 minutes afterward
for questions.
The guest lectures are held twice per semester, said Mike
Hammock, assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance. Their
purpose is to convey to students the variety of topics that economists study
and the sometimes counterintuitive ways that markets work, he said.
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Note to media: Photo
of Allen attached
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