Grove City College’s School of Business is hosting a lecture by acclaimed economist Christopher Coyne at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Staley Hall of Arts and Letters on campus.
He will be discussing his latest book, a satire titled “How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
Coyne is a professor at George Mason University and the associate director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University’s Mercatus Center. He specializes in Austrian economics, economic development, emerging democracies, postwar and disaster reconstruction, political economy, and social change.
“Christopher Coyne is one of the most important scholarly voices in contemporary development economics,” said Dr. Caleb Fuller ’13, associate professor of Economics at Grove City College. “Across several decades of work, Coyne has made important contributions to our understanding of political economy, war, post-war reconstruction, and humanitarian efforts. He excels at deploying economics to illuminate topics of tremendous importance for global human flourishing. He equally excels at articulating those findings as a dynamic and engaging speaker.”
Coyne has written several books, including “In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace,” “Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror,” “Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails,” and “After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy.” The author of numerous academic articles, book chapters, and policy studies, Coyne co-edited “The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics,” “In All Fairness: Liberty, Equality, and the Quest for Human Dignity,” and other collections.
In addition to his work at George Mason University, Coyne is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute. He serves as the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and of The Independent Review.