2025 Markets & Society Conference

October 17–20, 2025 | Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA

Keynote Speakers

• Emily Chamlee-Wright — Economics, Institute for Human Studies

• Mark Granovetter — Sociology, Stanford University

• Roberta Herzberg — Political Economy, Mercatus Center

• Emily Oster — Economics, Brown University and ParentData

  Conference Program

  The full conference program is available here.

  2024 Markets & Society Conference

October 11–14, 2024 | Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA

Keynote Speakers

• Paul Dragos Aligica — KPMG Professor of Governance, University of Bucharest; Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center

• Nava Ashraf — Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Margaret Levi — Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

• David Schmidtz — Professor and Presidential Chair of Moral Science, Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University

• Mario L. Small — Chair and Quetelet Professor of Social Science, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

  Conference Program

  The full conference program is available here.

2023 Markets & Society Conference

October 20–23, 2023 | Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA

Keynote Speakers

• Kwame Anthony Appiah — Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University

• Nina Bandelj — Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

• Christopher J. Coyne — Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center

• Chandran Kukathas — Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University

• Emma Rothschild* — Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University; University of Glasgow Templeton Adam Smith Tercentenary Fellow

*This lecture is part of the University of Glasgow’s Smith@300: Celebrating Adam Smith as Scholar, Educator, and Citizen supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Conference Program

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2022 Markets & Society Conference

October 21–24, 2022 | Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA

Keynote Speakers

• Peter J. Boettke — University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University; Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

• Deirdre N. McCloskey — Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and History, Professor Emerita of English and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago; Distinguished Affiliated Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

• Mario J. Rizzo — Professor of Economics & Director of the Foundations of the Market Economy Program, New York University

• Viviana A. Zelizer — Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University 

Conference Program

The full conference program is available here.

Thanks to our generous donors, especially the John Templeton Foundation and the Rising Tide Foundation.