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3/17/08

Economist Christopher Coyne, Author Of 'After War,' To Speak At SLU

CANTON - Economist Christopher Coyne will speak about his new book, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy, on Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall at St. Lawrence University. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

In After War, Coyne explores efforts to export democracy by applying an economic mindset to a topic more traditionally tackled by historians, policy-makers and political scientists. Economics focuses on how incentives influence human action. From an economic standpoint, a successful post-war reconstruction effort, argues Coyne, requires finding and establishing a set of incentives that make citizens prefer a liberal democratic order over any available alternatives. Further, he provides insight into why occupiers are likely to continue to fail in efforts to create the incentives that underpin liberal democracy.

Coyne is assistant professor of economics at West Virginia University, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center and the North American editor for the Review of Austrian Economics.

His talk is the first of a visiting speaker series in political economy, supported by a grant from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.

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