Grant to Fund Economic, Legal and Political Foundations Project
The funding is an extension of a previous grant from the Pope Foundation, and will continue to fund the university’s “Economic, Legal and Political Foundations of Free Societies” project – which includes a lecture series, undergraduate courses and research grants for students and faculty. The grant will also continue to support the student organization, the Society for Politics, Economics and the Law.
The new grant also provides funding for visiting scholars, project enrichment materials and administrative support. The grant was awarded jointly to the Department of Economics in NC State’s College of Management and the School of Public and International Affairs’ Department of Political Science in the university’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The grant provides $140,000 for the project each year, and runs from July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2014.
Over the past five years, the initial grant for this project funded five Pope Lecture Series presentations:
- 2009, William Easterley, Professor of Economics and co-director, Development Research Institute, New York University
- 2008, William A. Niskanen, chairman emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, The Cato Institute
- 2007, Richard A. Epstein, professor and director of the Law and Economics Program at the University of Chicago
- 2006, Harvey Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of the book, Manliness
- 2005, Vernon Smith, Nobel Prize recipient in economics.
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