The TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award recognizes outstanding scholarly writing on issues related to lifelong financial security. This award is given each year in recognition of an outstanding research publication containing ideas that the public and private sectors can use to maintain and...

The Cliometric Society will sponsor three sessions at the ASSA meetings in Chicago, Illinois, January 5-7, 2007. At least one author of a paper must be a member of the Cliometric Society.

Possible sessions could include: • Substitutability of real economic (manufactured) and natural capital • Effects of increased income inequality on the exploitation of the environment and the stability of social institutions • Globalization of economic activity and its effects on society...

Session 1: Making Markets Work for the Rural Poor Session 2: The Role of Religion in Twentieth Century Political Economy: Insights from Hayek, Knight, Smith, and Viner

The theme of the AFEE program will be: "Contributions of Institutional Economics to Public Policy Debates: Past and Present" These papers must be grounded in and contribute to the literature of Original Institutional Economics in the tradition of Commons, Veblen, Mitchell, Kapp, Myrdal, Polanyi,...

The TLC Conference provides a forum for faculty and administrators to share proven and innovative methods in teaching at the college level. Papers on teaching issues such as: curriculum, ethics in higher education, promotion and tenure, accreditation, teaching methods and styles, administration,...