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Fourth Annual Academy Symposium
Now More Than Ever: The Case for Limited Government

The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation is sponsoring its Fourth Annual Academy Symposium. Further details available here.

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Series
Inaugural Debate: Health Care

The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation sponsored the recent debate on Health Care. The debate was well received and attended by a large public audience.

Speakers

Michael Tanner is a Senior Fellow at the CATO Institute.

Steffie Woolhandler is a professor of Medicine at Harvard and co-director of the Harvard Medical School General Interval Medicine Fellowship Program.

Law

Professor Andrew Morriss
Funding to bring Donald Kates to spring freshman honors class. Kates, a seminal figure in 2nd Amendment rights, played a pivotal role in developing scholarship that ultimately led to Heller.

Executive MBA Program

Professor Rajshree Agarwal
Funding to bring CEO of Lilly Research Laboratories to speak on the importance of private enterprise to innovation and change in the pharmaceutical industry

  • Meeting Time: Spring 2010
  • Syllabus: N/A

"Fact & Comment"

By Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief
Forbes, 9/3/2009
(in a tribute to Robert Novak)

"Robert Novak was one of the first to actually understand supply-side economics. One of the highlights of my life was two years ago when Bob urged me to participate in the inaugural forum put on by the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An alumnus of the university, Novak was the principal speaker and moderator. Immensely flattered, I accepted." (Full text)

Susan E. Dudley on campus

Academy funding brought Susan E. Dudley to campus to speak to the College of Law’s Administrative Law class on October 2, 2009.

Ms. Dudley is currently the Director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and previously served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (April 2007 through January 2009), where she was responsible for the review of draft executive branch regulations under Executive Order 12866, the collection of federal-government-wide information under the Paperwork Reduction Act, the development and implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information policy, privacy, and statistical policy, and international regulatory cooperation efforts. Prior to OIRA, she directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and taught courses on regulation at the George Mason University School of Law.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Dudley served as an economist at OIRA, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She was also a consultant to government and private clients at Economists Incorporated. She holds a Master of Science degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Third Annual Conference

The Academy held its Third Annual Conference on October 1, 2009 on the Urbana campus. Economist and Wall Street Journal contributer, Stephen Moore, delivered the keynote - "Are We Regulating Capitalism Out of Existence?" Conference co-chairs - Professor Rajshree Agarwal and Jeffry Brown. See conference details here.

Second Annual Conference

Billed as the Schumpeter Symposium for 2008, the Second Annual Conference was hosted by Champaign's new I Hotel over the U of I Foundation Annual Meeting weekend.

A packed ballroom of 350 or so students, faculty and Academy friends heard Carl Schramm deliver the keynote (view the keynote address) followed by a round-table discussion led by moderator/economist J. Fred Giertz. Panelists included four distinguished UIUC faculty members—Professors Rajshree Agarwal (John Georges Professor of Technology Management and Strategy), Jude C. Hays (assistant professor of political science), Stephen C. Parente (associate professor of economics) and Thomas S. Ulen (Swanlund Chair and Director of the Program in Law and Economics).

Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, is a Batten Fellow in the Darden School, University of Virginia and co-author of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, now available in seven languages and recently named one of the "Top Ten Books That Drive Debate" by the National Chamber Foundation.

ACLG Inaugural Conference

Check out our video clips of the September 27, 2007 event

 

Proud Family Recognitions - White House and other

In a November 2007 White House ceremony, President George Bush awarded the prestigious National Humanties Medal to NAS Chairman and Academy Director, Stephen Balch, "for leadership and advocacy upholding the noblest traditions of higher education," and Professor Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Scholar and Academy Advisor, "for recounting the history of our nation's struggle for liberty and ongoing quest for justice for all."

Last February, the Conservative Union Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation honored Dr. Balch (again) with the Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award. The presentation was made at ACU's Annual Ronald Reagan Dinner. Read Steve's acceptance remarks.

Dr. Jeffrey Brown, William G. Karnes Professor of Finance on the UIUC campus and an Academy Advisory Council member, received the 2008 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Sameulson Award for "outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security." Professor Brown and co-recipient MIT Professor of Economics, Amy Finkelstein, will receive an award of $10,000.