Invisible Hand Seminar
Established 2011, the Invisible Hand Seminar advances liberal discourse in the spirit of Adam Smith. The seminar meets five Saturdays a semester, 4:00-5:45 PM, Buchanan Hall D180.
Past seminars have featured senior scholars and graduate students working in economics, philosophy, sociology, history, political theory, and law.
If you would like to attend a seminar, please write to Erik Matson at ematson@mercatus.gmu.edu.
Schedule for Fall 2025
- Saturday, August 30: Max Skjönsberg (Hamilton School, U Florida): Oakeshott on Teleocracy and Nomocracy
- Saturday, September 27: Jacob Hall (Ohio State University): Why Lords Went for Luxuries: A Riff on Adam Smith and David Hume
- Saturday, October 11: Jonathan Fortier (Cato Institute, Libertarianism.org): The Romantic Retreat: Liberty before and after the French Revolution
- Saturday, November 8: Michael Pakaluk (Catholic University of America): The Origin of Our Propensity to Truck, Barter, and Exchange: An Aristotelian Account
- Saturday, December 6: C. Bradley Thompson (Clemson Inst. for Study of Capitalism, Clemson University): Americans Turn Rebels, 1765–1776