Charlottesville–Right Now: Coy talks ABC privatization with Lt. Governor Bill Bolling
Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling joins Coy to discuss the proposed privatization of liquor sales in Virginia.
Charlottesville Right Now: 6-9-10 Christine Richard
Charlottesville Right Now: 4-28-10 Herman Schwartz
Charlottesville Right Now: 4-16-10 Carol Thorpe
Charlottesville Right Now: 4-16-10 Dotty Lynch
Charlottesville Right Now: 3-23-10 Brian Wheeler
Charlottesville Right Now: 3-9-10 Colette Sheehy
Jefferson Society: Kenneth Elzinga on Unconventional Leadership Principles

Kenneth Elzinga
The third speaker in the Jefferson Society’s Fall 2009 Speaker Series was Professor Kenneth Elzinga. On Friday, September 18, Professor Elzinga spoke on the topic, “Some Unconventional Principles of Leadership.”
Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia, and has been a member of the faculty since 1967. Mr. Elzinga has received many distinguished awards, including the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor the University of Virginia accords its faculty. Each fall Mr. Elzinga teaches the largest class offered at the University of Virginia, introductory economics.
Mr. Elzinga’s major research interest is antitrust economics, especially pricing strategy and market definition. He has testified in several precedent-setting antitrust cases. He is a former Fellow in Law and Economics as the University of Chicago and a Thomas Jefferson Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University. Mr. Elzinga is the author of more than seventy academic publications.
He also is known for three mystery novels, co-authored with William Breit under the pen name Marshall Jevons, in which the protagonist employs economic analysis to solve the crime.
Economics Professor David C. Smith on government bailouts

Economist Bryan Caplan addresses Jefferson Society

After his presentation, Professor Caplan took questions from the audience, including:
00:44:00 Who tends to score higher on the “political IQ test”: Democrats or Republicans?
00:45:00 What can be done to correct for systematic bias in the voting population?
00:47:00 Should we limit suffrage to knowledgable voters only?
00:50:00 Although average persons may not know the answers to the technical questions on the political IQ test, they do experience economics in every day life. Does that necessarily make their opinions less valuable?
00:52:00 Is the economic feasibility of a policy the only measure of its value?