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                  <text>Casper College Social Science Seminar

Economics and Politics:
Failures and Promise

�Economics
and
Politics:

Failures
and
Promise
A Social Science Seminar

Casper College
Gertrude Krampert Theatre

October 19,1992
Seminar Directors
•

Dr. Tyler J. Bowles
and
Dr. David L. Cherry

�Economics and Politics:
Failures and Promise
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Dr. Earl H. Fry
"Political and Economic Challenges
Facing the United States: 1992 - 2001"

10:15 -11:30 a.m. Panel: "Prescriptions for American
Political - Economic Ailments? "
Moderator: Dr. Walter E. Williams
Members: Dr. Earl H. Fry
Dr. Richard L. Stroup
Dr. Everett H. Akam
Dr. Tyler J. Bowles

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Dr. Richard L. Stroup
"Enviromental Quality:
Market vs. Government Controls"

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Panel: "Has the Public Sector Failed Us?
Moderator: Mr. Jon Brady
Members: Dr. Richard L. Stroup
Dr. Earl H. Fry
Dr. Walter E. Williams
Dr. David L. Cherry

8:00 - 9:15 p.m.

Dr. Walter E. Williams
"Government Intervention and
Individual Freedom "

�Richard L. Stroup is
a Professor of Econ­
omics at Montana
State University and a
Senior Associate of the
Political Economy
Research Center in
Bozeman, Montana.
He was born in
Sunnyside, Washing­
ton. From 1982 - 1984,
he was Director of the
Office of Policy
Analysis at the Interior
Department.
Dr. Stroup is a
widely
published
author on natural
resources
and
Richard L. Stroup
environmental issues
and has also written on tax policy and labor economics. His work
has been a major force in the development of the approach to
resource problems known as the New Resource Economics. He is
co-author, with James E. Gwartney, of a leading economics
principles textbook. Economics: Private and Public Choice
(Heircourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992) now in its sixth edition. Other
books include Natural Resources: Bureaucratic Myths and
Environmental Management (Ballinger Publishing Co. 1983),
written with John Baden, and Bureaucracy vs. the Environment:
The Environmental Cost of Bureaucratic Governance (University
of Michigan Press, 1981), edited with John Baden. Dr. Stroup's
recent research has focused on alternative institutional
arrangements for dealing with hazards waste, global warning,
and other environmental risk.
Dr. Stroup is a Cato Adjunct Scholar, a member of the Mont
Pelerin Society, and a former member of the executive committee
of the Western Economics Association.

�Dr. Earl H. Fry is
Professor of Political
Science at Brigham
Young University and
was named in 1990 as
the first holder of an
Endowed Professorship
in Canadian Studies.
He is also a Visiting
Fellow at the Americas
Society in New York
City and is serving as
President
of the
Association
for
Canadian Studies in the
United States (ACSUS).
Professor
Fry
received his Ph.D. from
the University of
Dr. Earl H. Fry
California, Los Angeles.
He previously served as
a Fulbright Lecturer at the Sorbonne, Director of International
Education and Canadian Studies at the State University of New York
at Plattsburgh, a council on Foreign Relations International Affairs
Fellow, and as a Special Assistant in the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative (USTR), which is a part of the Executive Office of the
President of the United States. During his period at USTR, he
specialized in international investment issues and in U.S. - Canada
trade relations. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the
University of Montreal (1989) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales in Paris (1990). He currently serves as an Academic
Associate of the Atlantic Council and as a member of the
International Affairs Fellowship Committee of the Council on Foreign
Relations.
Dr. Fry is the author or editor of more than a dozen books,
including Financial Invasion of the U.S.A. (McGraw-Hill, 1980), The
Politics of International Investment (McGraw-Hill, 1983), Investment
in the North America Free Trade Area (BYU,1992), and Canada's
Unity Crisis (Twentieth Century Fund, 1992). He also had 50 articles
published dealing with such topics as international trade and
investment. North American economic relations, and U. S. economic
competitiveness.

�Dr.
Walter
E.
Williams is a Professor
of microeconomics at
George
Mason
University in Fairfax,
Virginia. Prior to joining
the faculty at George
Mason, he taught at
Temple University and
California
State
University. Williams
served on staff at the
Uban Institute in
Washington. He has
been the recipient of
numerous fellowships
and awards including a
fellowship with the
Dr. Walter E. Williams
Hoover Institute and a
distinguished scholar
award from the Heritage Foundation. He received his Master's and
Ph.D. from UCLA.
A nationally-syndicated columnist, Williams has made
numerous appearances on television and radio, including Nightline,
Face the Nation, The Larry King Show, and is a regular commentator for
the Nightly Business Report. He has also appeared throughout the
country to lecture and debate the issues of big government,
unemployment, poverty, and individual freedoms. He has made
frequent appearances before congressional committees. Williams has
written five books, including "America: A Minority Viewpoint," and
"All It Takes Is Guts." PBS produced a documentary on his book "The
State Against Blacks."
Williams received the National Federation of Independent
Businesses' Wilson S. Johnson Award in 1991 and the Adam Smith
Award in 1989, given by the Association of Private Enterprise
Education. He is a Distinguished Alumnus at California State
University, and received a commendation from the city of Los
Angeles in 1987.
He is a member of the Mont Perelin Society and the
American Economic Association.

�Panel Participants

Dr. Everett H. Akam

Instructor, American History and Political Science at
Casper College and the University of Wyoming/Casper
College. B.S., South Dakota State University; M.A. in
Political Science, University of South Dakota; M.A. and
Ph.D. in History, University of Rochester.

Dr. Tyler J. Bowles
Economics Instructor at Casper College and the
University of Wyoming/ Casper College. B. S., M.S.,
Utah State University; Ph.D., University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Jon E. Brady

Political Science Instructor at Casper College. B.A.,
M.A., International Studies, University of Denver, J.D.,
Law, University of Wyoming.

Dr. David L. Cherry
Political Science Instructor at Casper College and the
University of Wyoming/Casper College. B.A.,
Washington and Jefferson College; M.A., Southern
Illinois University; Ph.D., Northern Arizona University.

�Appreciations
The Division of Social and Behavorial Sciences
extends appreciation to the administration, faculty,
and staff of Casper College whose support continues
to make the seminar possible.
David C. Dundas
and the Krampert Theatre Department,

Nancy Madura for her artwork on
the seminar program and poster.
College Relations Department
for publicity and arrangements,
program layout and photography,
Jackie Read, Secretary of the Social
and Behavioral Sciences Division,

the Maintenance and Custodial staff.

�■J

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