• We are pleased to announce the release of:
  The Abolition of Antitrust, Gary Hull, editor and contributing author (Transaction Publishers, May 2005)
  
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The Abolition of Antitrust asserts that antitrust laws—on economic, legal, and moral grounds—are bad, and provides convincing evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition. Every year, new antitrust prosecutions arise in the U.S. courts, as in the cases against 3M and Visa/MasterCard, as well as a number of ongoing antitrust cases, such as those involving Microsoft and college football’s use of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Gary Hull and the contributing authors show that these cases—as well as the very Antitrust Act itself—are based on an erroneous interpretation of the history of American business, are premised on bad economics and equivocate between economic and political power—the power to produce versus the power to use physical force. They argue that antitrust prosecutions are based on a horrible moral inversion: that it is acceptable to sacrifice America’s best producers.

• (Read a review at techcentralstation.com.)
• Hailed as "a new classic in political science" by Transaction Publishers.

• March 3-4, 2006: Dr. Daniels lectured on "Unenumerated Rights in American Constitutional History" in Denver, Colorado.
• February 16, 2006: Dr. Hull was interviewed about teen employment and the minimum wage for the Richard Brown radio show.
• January 5, 2006: Dr. Gary Hull was interviewed on WUNC radio about the fairness of government mandated minimum wages. An archive of the show is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/wunc_archives/sot/
• December 3, 2005: Dr. Daniels lectured in Chicago on "The Commercial Revolution in American Business" and "Financial Capitalism in American History."
• November 17, 2005: Dr. Hull lectured on "Multiculturalism" at the University of Florida.
• July 31, 2005: Dr. Hull's lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," was broadcast on C-SPAN2/Book TV.
• July 18, 2005: Dr. Hull gave a lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," at the Shaftesbury Society Luncheon sponsored by the John Locke Foundation.
• May 25, 2005: Dr. Hull was interviewed on The Thom Hartmann Radio Program.
• May 24, 2005: Dr. Hull gave a lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine, California. The event was taped by BookTV on C-SPAN2, to be broadcast at a later date.
• May 21, 2005: Dr. Daniels give a lecture, "The Commercial Revolution in Amercian Business," in Denver, Colorado.
• April 21, 2005: Dr. Hull gave a lecture, "Antitrust Is Immoral," at New York University.
• April 13-15, 2005: Dr. Hull gave his seminar, Leadership Through Values and Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
• April 5, 2005: Dr. Hull participated in a panel discussion on business ethics as part of Honor Week, sponsored by the Honor Council.
• September 17, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a seminar, Leadership Through Values and Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
• We are pleased to announce that Professor Eric Daniels has been nominated for the 2003-2004 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.
• March 11 & 12, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a seminar, Leadership Through Values and Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
• February 6, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a talk, "The Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure," at the University of Chicago.
• February 4 & 5, 2004: Dr. Hull gave a seminar, Leadership Through Values and Virtues, to Hutchinson Technology, Inc.
• The BB&T Charitable Foundation, the philanthropic division of BB&T Corp.—a major financial institution—donates $1 million to VEM.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship
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• Research Associate for 2003-2006: Eric Daniels, Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Daniels has taught and lectured on American history at the University of Wisconsin and Duke University. He has lectured widely at public conferences on the history of invention, the Enlightenment, and the history of American moral thinking. His specialties included American business history, intellectual history, and political history. He contributed five articles to The Oxford Companion to United States History, and has given papers at professional conferences on his research.
• Graduate Fellow: Richard Salsman, a political science graduate student, was the VEM Graduate Fellow during the fall 2006 semester.
• Graduate Fellow for 2003-2004 academic year: Dennis Rasmussen, a third-year graduate student in Political Science.
• Postdoctoral Fellow for 2001-2002 academic year: Awarded to Professor Eric Daniels.
• Graduate Program Assistant for 2001-2002 academic year: Awarded to William M. Curtis, a fourth-year graduate student of political philosophy, for dissertation work and teaching.
  

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• Course Development Grant
• Summer Research Internship