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Volume 1, No. 1 Fall 2002

The Murphy Institute Launches Journal

GERALD GAUS, professor of philosophy, recalls a a proponent of linguistic justice. He argues that in a lecture decades ago where a cocky young scholar bilingual society, such as Belgium, people whose raised his hand to challenge the eminent Harvard mother tongue is not the language of the majority University political philosopher John Rawls. He said, population but who learn the second language anyway “Although, Professor Rawls, I have never read your to ease commerce and societal functioning should be book, let me tell you what’s wrong with it from the compensated for their effort. book reviews I’ve seen.” Gaus says that Van Parijs’ views generated lively dis- After criticizing work he’d never read, the busy aca- cussion at the conference as the mainly English native- demic did not wait for Rawls’ answer. Glancing at his speaking scholars felt slightly guilty for not paying Van watch, he said, “I wish I had time to hear your reply, but Parijs more for writing and presenting his paper in I have to leave.” Mercifully, there was no such posturing English, which is not his mother tongue. Gaus and his at the Politics, Philosophy and Economics Conference sponsored by Tulane’s Murphy Institute on March 9 and 10, 2001. The two dozen conference-goers, says Gaus, not only had read the six papers presented by a select cadre of academic luminaries, but thoroughly dis- sected each paper with an ultimate goal in mind: publication of polished, well-honed articles in the Murphy Institute’s new academic journal Politics, Philosophy & Economics, whose inaugural issue appeared in February 2002. Journal authors will tackle issues of social justice and the cross- Murphy Institute faculty Jonathan Riley (left) and Gerald Gaus (above) are over between economic founding editors of the academic journal Politics, Philosophy & Economics. theories and the understanding of politics and co-editor, associate professor JONATHAN RILEY, who morality, says Gaus. For moved from Tulane’s political science department to example, Belgian Philippe philosophy in the fall semester of 2002, expect the kind Van Parijs of Universite of scholarly give-and-take that occurred at the confer- Catholique de Louvain is ence to set the tone for the new journal. “Philosophers,

continued on page 15 THE MURPHY INSTITUTE letter from the director Core Faculty and Staff I TISMYPLEASURE to report on the activities of the Murphy Institute at Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Director, the end of its twenty-second year. 2001–2002 was a year marked by sustained Department of History Gerald Gaus, Department of Philosophy academic excellence and expansion. Every level of program activity at the Ron King, Department of Political Science Murphy Institute — whether it involved faculty, students, staff, or alumni — Eric Mack, Department of Philosophy gave evidence of a spirit of innovation and vitality that has become our hall- Douglas R. Nelson, Department of Economics mark. Some examples: Jonathan M. Riley, Department of Philosophy Martyn P. Thompson, Department ❂ In supporting and coordinating the establishment of a new Center for of Political Science Ethics and Public Affairs, we are laying the foundations for a center that will Judith K. Schafer, Associate Director provide greater coordination and support for research, teaching, and schol- Ruth A. Carter, Program Coordinator arly discussion of ethics and the ethical dimensions of professional life across the schools and disciplines at Tulane. In the process, the Murphy Institute is THE CENTER FOR ETHICS also expanding its operations to address issues that are not only basic to the AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS study of political economy, but at the heart of Faculty Executive Committee Tulane University’s broader academic mission. Bruce Brower, Department of Philosophy ❂ Our core faculty remain among the most pro- Richard Culbertson, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine ductive and respected scholars at Tulane, and their Eric Dannenmaier, Director, Tulane Institute work continues to identify the Murphy Institute as for Environmental Law and Policy an international force in treating “political econo- Kay C. Dee, School of Engineering Gerald Gaus my” as a scholarly field in which humanists and Steve Griffin, Associate Dean, Law School social scientists make contributions of shared and Cathy J. Lazarus, School of Medicine equal interest. Jonathan Riley is one of only 40 Graham Owen, School of Architecture scholars worldwide to receive a 2002–2003 Fellowship for study at the National Eric Mack Robert Martensen, Knight Chair of Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. February 2002 Humanities and Ethics, School of Medicine also saw the appearance of the inaugural issue of our new academic journal Jonathan M. Riley Politics, Philosophy & Economics. We envision the journal as a unique new forum Martyn P. Thompson Michael Zimmerman, Department for scholarly interchange of concepts and methods among political scientists, of Philosophy philosophers, and economists. ❂ Center Administration Our long-standing undergraduate program in political economy remains one of Tulane’s most acclaimed interdisciplinary programs. Its popularity also Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Interim Director Lisa Luongo, Program Manager has grown substantially during the last two years. During 2001–2002, enroll- ment in our core offerings was at an all-time high, and by May 2002 the num- THE EXCHANGE ber of undergraduate majors had grown from 76 to 126. At the 2002 Tulane Lisa Luongo, Editor University Commencement, graduating senior Elizabeth May was honored Adam Newman, Communications Consultant with several awards including the Alpha Lambda Delta Award for Academic and Art Director Tana Coman, Designer Excellence, given annually to the Newcomb College senior graduating at Jackson Hill, Photographer the top of her class. Both the pages that follow and our web site — www.tulane.edu/~murphy/ — provide more detailed information about Murphy Institute programs old Send editorial correspondence to the Murphy Institute, 108 Tilton Hall, Tulane and new. Looking back on 2001–2002, it’s fair to say there have been no more University, New Orleans, La. 70118. exciting and productive years at the Murphy Institute. Telephone: (504) 865-5317. Facsimile: (504) 862-8755. For questions and comments pertaining to the Murphy Institute, contact [email protected]; for those pertaining to the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, contact [email protected]. Web site: www.tulane.edu/~murphy/. Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Director E STABLISHED IN 1980 through the generosity of Mellon Foundation also provided generous support for Charles H. Murphy, Jr. (1920–2002), the Murphy new faculty positions in international political economy. Institute is a university-wide interdisciplinary commu- Yet the Murphy Institute is much more than Tulane’s nity at Tulane that exists to help faculty and students most acclaimed interdisciplinary undergraduate pro- understand economic, moral, and political problems gram. Among scholars worldwide, it is known for suc- we all face and think about as citizens. More important, cessfully promoting a conception of “political economy” it exists to help us see why and how these problems as a field in which humanists and social scientists make have come to be so closely interrelated. contributions of shared and equal interest. Since the Within this broad purpose, the Murphy Institute sup- mid-1980s, the Murphy Institute has hosted numerous ports a number of academic scholarly conferences and programs. Among Tulane faculty seminars designed to undergraduates, the Murphy promote and enhance inter- Institute is best known for its the murphy disciplinary research and dia- highly successful program logue. Some of this activity has in political economy. What institute been centered on the appoint- began in 1984 as a modest ment of the Murphy Institute’s venture with three students Distinguished Visiting Profes- has grown to become one of sor. These appointments have Tulane’s most acclaimed and included Gordon Winston popular interdisciplinary (Williams College), John Dunn majors. Testimony to the suc- (King’s College, Cambridge), cess of the program has been Thomas Haskell (Rice Univer- abundant. Some 460 students sity), John Gray (London Uni- have graduated with B.A.s versity), John Ferejohn (Stan- over the course of the last sev- ford), and Michael McPherson enteen years, and gone on to (Macalester College). Since pursue graduate and profes- 1984, other visiting lecturers sional degrees at universities have included 1992 Nobel such as Chicago, Columbia, Prize economist Gary Becker Duke, Harvard, Yale, Johns (Chicago), 1998 Nobel Prize Hopkins, Washington University, Georgetown, Stan- economist Amartya Sen (Trinity College, Cambridge), ford, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Tulane. Albert O. Hirschman (Institute for Advanced Study), The building blocks of our success have been vari- Stefan Collini (Clare Hall, Cambridge), Peter Hammond ous. The Murphy Institute has six “core” faculty mem- (Stanford), and Jackson Lears (Rutgers University). bers who year-in and year-out teach courses specifically The Murphy Institute also sponsors (with designed for the major, along with faculty affiliates in Cambridge University) “Murphy Institute Studies in Economics, History, Philosophy, and Political Science Political Economy,” a series of occasional volumes com- who teach cross-listed, departmentally-based courses. prising original essays first presented at conferences The Director of the Murphy Institute has received both sponsored by the Institute. To date perhaps the most the Sheldon Hackney Award for Excellence in successful book in the series has been The Culture of the Teaching and the Student Senate Award for Excellence Market: Historical Essays (1993), eds. Thomas Haskell in Teaching, and was chosen Louisiana Professor of the and Richard F. Teichgraeber III, which collected Year in 1989 by the Council for the Advancement and papers first presented at an NEH conference organized Support of Education. The Associate Director has twice and hosted by the Murphy Institute. We also sponsor received the Student Senate Award for Excellence in (with Sage Publications) the new academic journal: Advising. With grant support from the National PPE: A Journal of Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Two Endowment for the Humanities, the basic contours of Murphy Institute faculty — Gerald Gaus and Jonathan the political economy program were put into place in Riley — are the journal’s founding editors. They have

PHOTOGRAPHS OF TILTON HALL BY PAULA BURCH, COURTESY TULANE UNIVESITY OFFICE OF PUBLICATIONS BURCH, COURTESY HALL BY PAULA PHOTOGRAPHS OF TILTON 1987. In the early 1990s, a grant from the Andrew W. conceived PPE as a forum for interchange of concepts

continued on page 13 Fall 2002 THE EXCHANGE 3 LAUNCHED IN JULY, 2001, the Murphy Institute’s new CENTER FOR ETHICS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS has been created to provide greater coordination and support for research, teaching, and scholarly discussion of ethics and the ethical dimensions of public and professional life across schools and disciplines at Tulane. The idea driving the Center is that Tulane should have a place where its faculty and students can more broadly examine critical issues of right and wrong, justice and injustice, community and citizenship, the ethics of research, and the ethics of the professions. The Center is also part of a strategy aimed at spreading the resources of the Murphy Institute more broadly across the University. Tw o new programs are at the heart of the Center: a Visiting Faculty Fellowship program that will facilitate fre- quent and sustained contact with distinguished visiting scholars, and a new Graduate Prize Fellowship Program that will enhance graduate education at Tulane by supporting graduate students writing dissertations or engaged in major research on ethical issues. Other components of the Center include new support for university-wide seminars and lectures and leadership provided by a university-wide Faculty Executive Committee. 2001–2002 was the first year in the Center’s planned three-year startup phase. It was active and productive.The Center’s first annual Faculty Seminar, held in Spring 2002, did exactly what we hoped it would do: encourage and enhance intellectual community by ending the geographical isolation of teachers and scholars of professional ethics from faculty in the liberal arts who share their interest in Steve Macedo, Director of the Center for ethics. The seminar’s topic was “Relativism and Moral Human Values, Princeton University (top); Confidence.” It was organized and conducted by SIMON Matthew Oberrieder (Philosophy), BLACKBURN, Professor of Philosophy, University of Michael Redman (History), and Elizabeth Umphress (Freeman School Cambridge.The fifteen seminar participants included facul- of Business) will be Graduate Fellows of ty from the Law School, the Medical School, the School of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Public Health and Tropical Medicine, as well as faculty and during 2002–2003 (below). graduate students from LAS. The Center also organized and/or cosponsored lectures and seminars with other departments and various schools

the center for ethics and public affairs the center for within the University.These included:

4 THE EXCHANGE Fall 2002 G.A. COHEN, Chilele Professor of Social and Political figured prominently in the successful creation and Thought, Oxford:“Facts and Principles.” administration of similar centers at other universities: TIMOTHY E. QUILL, M.D., Professor of Medicine, DENNIS THOMPSON, Director, Center for Ethics Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities, University of and the Professions, Alfred North Whitehead Professor Rochester School of Medicine:“The Promise of a Good of Political Philosophy, Harvard University; and Death: Potential and Limitations.” STEPHEN MACEDO, Director, University Center for DAVID MESSICK, Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision Human Values, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of in Management, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Politics, Princeton University. The discussions were Northwestern University:“Ethics at the Kellogg School.” designed to help the Center’s Faculty Executive Committee and senior University administrators who The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs also hosted have lent their support to the Center to sharpen the roundtable discussions with two scholars who have focus of our approach to ethics and public affairs.

Simon Blackburn (left), Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, conducted the first university-wide Faculty Seminar at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. Former editor of the journal Mind,Professor Blackburn is author of the recent best-selling books Think (1999) and Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (2001). His seminar’s topic was “Relativism and Moral Confidence.”

Center Offers Faculty and Graduate Fellowships

IN THE FALL OF 2001, we began to put in place the basic Visiting Faculty Fellowships this year. It will instead host a contours of the Center’s two Fellowship Programs. series of distinguished visitors.We will bring to campus in the Announcements of the Graduate Fellowship Program were spring term three internationally known scholars to help distributed to all Tulane graduate students.They were also teach graduate students and host our annual Faculty Seminar. distributed to Deans and appropriate department chairs. VOLKER GERHARDT, Humboldt University (Berlin) Inside Tulane (December, 2001) provided additional publicity CHANDRAN KUKATHAS, Australian Defense for the program. We selected three Graduate Fellows Force Academy for 2002–2003. An intellectually impressive group will DENNIS C. MUELLER, Universitat Vienna (Austria) spend the year completing work on a diverse range of dissertation topics: Finally, in keeping with one of the Center’s announced goals to attract outstanding faculty to Tulane, the Center for MATTHEW OBERRIEDER (Philosophy): Ethics and Public Affairs was an important component “The Significance in Plato’s Protagoras of Shame and ensuring the Tulane School of Medicine’s successful recruit- Self-Knowledge for Understanding the Human.” ment of Dr. ROBERT MARTENSEN to be the first holder MICHAEL REDMAN (History): of the Knight Chair in Ethics and Humanities. In addition to “Censorship and the Politics of Culture: Lying and Telling his responsibilities at the School of Medicine, Dr.Martensen the Truth During the Personal Rule of Charles I.” will serve as a new member of the Center’s Faculty ELIZABETH UMPHRESS (Freeman School of Business): Executive Committee. With additional administrative and “In the Name of the Company: Unethical Behaviors program support from the Center, the activities Dr. Perpetrated by Employees in Response to Fair Treatment.” Martensen plans to undertake at the School of Medicine Because suitable office space for Visiting Faculty Fellows will will create a new bridge between Tulane’s downtown not be available until Fall, 2003, the Center will not provide and uptown campuses.

Fall 2002 THE EXCHANGE 5 FACULTY PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

❂ JERRY GAUS, Professor of Philos- Marxism, and Egalitarianism: Part I. National Humanities Center in ophy, published several new papers Challenges to Historical Entitlement,” Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. during the past year: “The Legal Coor- Politics, Philosophy, & Economics (Febru- During his year in residence, he will dination Game,” American Philosophical ary, 2002); “Self-Ownership, Marxism, pursue research on his new comparative Association’s Newsletter on the Philosophy and Egalitarianism: Part II. Challenges study of John Stuart Mill, Isaiah of Law (Spring, 2002); “Principles, to the Self-Ownership Thesis,” Politics, Berlin, John Rawls, and Richard Rorty. Goals, and Symbols: Nozick’s Theory of Philosophy, & Economics (June, 2002); Professor Riley also published a new Practical Rationality,” in Robert Nozick, and “Blind Justice” (a retrospective paper on “Defending Cultural Pluralism ed. David Schmidtz (Cambridge UP, of John Rawls’ Theory of Justice), Within Liberal Limits,” Political Theory 2002); “Bernard Bonsanquet’s Com- Navigator (July, 2001). In October, (February, 2002). munitarian Defense of Economic Indi- 2001, Professor Mack was also an invit- vidualism,” in The New Liberalism: ed participant at a Colloquium on Reconciling Liberty and Community, eds. “Rights, Liberties, and Duties,” held at David Weinstein and Avital Simhony the School of Law, Universidad Di (Cambridge UP, 2001); “What is Deon- Tella, in Punta del Este, Uruguay. tology? Part One: Orthodox Views” and ❂ DOUG NELSON, Professor of “What is Deontology? Part Two: Economics, is co-editor (with David Reasons for Action,” in Journal of Value Greenaway) of a new volume of papers Inquiry, Vol. 35 (2001). During 2002, on Globalisation and Labour Markets Professor Gaus was chosen a (Edward Elgar, 2001). He published Distinguished Overseas Visitor by the two new papers during the past year: British Political Studies Association. He “International Political Economy: A also organized the second annual PPE Tale of Two Heterodoxies” (with Craig conference. Held on the Tulane Murphy), British Journal of Politics and campus in March 2002, this year’s con- International Relations (Vol. 3, #3, 2001), ference’s theme was “Markets and and “Globalisation and Labour Mar- Commercial Culture.” kets: Introduction,” in Globalisation and Judith K. Schafer, Associate Director of the Murphy Institute and Associate Professor of ❂ ERIC MACK, Professor of Philo- Labour Markets, eds. David Greenaway Political Economy sophy, published three new papers and Doug Nelson (Edward Elgar, during 2001–2002: “Self-Ownership, 2001). In November, 2001, Professor ❂ JUDITH K. SCHAFER, Associate Nelson organized and hosted a Murphy Director of the Murphy Institute and Eric Mack, Professor of Philosophy (below, left) Institute conference on “The Political Associate Professor of Political Econo- Economy of Reform,” where he pre- my, published a new paper on “The sented a paper on “The Role of the Murder of a ‘Lewd and Abandoned World Bank in the Transfer of Policy Woman’: State v. Abraham Parker,” Knowledge on Trade Liberalization.” American Journal of Legal History (April He continues to serve on the Editorial 2002). Her new book manuscript Advisory Board of the journal World Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manu- Economy, and as External Research Fel- mission and Enslavement in New Orleans, low at the Leverhulme Centre for 1846–1862 has been accepted for Research on Globalisation and Eco- publication by LSU Press. During nomic Policy, University of Nottingham. 2002–2003, Dr. Schafer will be Presi- ❂ JONATHAN RILEY, Associate Pro- dent of the Louisiana Historical Society. fessor of Philosophy, is one of only 40 ❂ RICHARD F. TEICHGRAEBER III, scholars worldwide to receive a Director of the Murphy Institute and 2002–2003 Fellowship to study at the Professor of History, presented a paper

6 THE EXCHANGE Fall 2002 the center for ethics and public affairs on “The American University Movement Faculty in American Culture, 1870–1900” at the Fourth Annual Bavarian American Acad- Fellowships emy Conference — “Cultures of Econo- my/Economics of Culture” — in Munich, 2003-04 20–22 June, 2002. He has completed the draft of a new paper on “‘More Than The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Luther of These Modern Days’: Emerson Public Affairs at Tulane University is pleased to in American Culture, 1882–1903.” Profes- announce residential Faculty Fellowships for the sor Teichgraeber is also serving as Interim 2003-2004 academic year. These fellowships, made Director of the Murphy Institute’s new possible by grants from the Tulane Murphy Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, and Foundation and from the bequest the University has been named to Who’s Who Among received from the estate of Lallage Feazel Wall, American Teachers, 2002. are available to support outstanding faculty whose ❂ MARTYN THOMPSON, Associate teaching and research focus on questions of ethics Professor of Political Science, pub- and moral choice in such areas as architecture, lished an new article on “Hobbes on business, government, law, medicine, urban design Heresy” in Histories of Heresy in Early and planning, and engineering. While fellows will Modern Europe, ed. J.C. Laursen participate in conferences and seminars organized (Palgrave, 2002), and continues to the murphy institute, by the Center, they will be expected to devote serve as a co-editor of the annual the most of their time to conducting their own Politisches/Denken/Jahrbuch. Professor research. Stipends will vary in accordance with Thompson is the Chair of the Confer- individual circumstance, but will not exceed ence for the Study of Political Thought. US$35,000. Center Faculty Fellowships are open He also continues to work on his forth- to all, regardless of citizenship. coming book, Reading Political Thinkers, tulane university Further information about the Fellowships and a study of central aspects of the recep- applications may be obtained from the Center tion of Locke and Rousseau. page on the Murphy Institute web site at Martyn Thompson, Associate Professor www.tulane.edu/~murphy of Political Science or may be requested by contacting:

The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs The Murphy Institute Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 504.862.3236 tel 504.862.8360 fax [email protected]

Fall 2002 THE EXCHANGE 7 In May 2002, fourteen Tulane and Newcomb seniors graduated with B.A.’s in political economy. This was our seventeenth graduating class, and it included many very impressive students. Several received high academic honors: STEVEN CAHALL, CARLYN HANSEN, FRANK SNYDER, CONNIE TRIEU, and MARGARET WILSON graduated cum laude. ELIZABETH MAY graduated summa cum laude and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Five of our seniors left Tulane with overall grade point averages above 3.0; two were above a 3.4. At the 2002 Tulane University Commencement, Steven Cahall and WILLIAM SNYDER shared the Paul Tulane College’s Murphy Prize in Political Economy. Elizabeth May — who graduated with a double major in

Political Economy and History — was showered with an Elizabeth May '02 (above) graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta extraordinary number of awards. Not only did she win Kappa, and was recipient of Newcomb College's Alpha Lambda Delta the Newcomb College Murphy Prize in Political Award for Academic Excellence. Economy, she also was recipient of the Charles Till Davis Prize for Excellence in European History, the Sorbonne in Paris. During Summer 2001, ten Tulane Mary B. Scott Prize, and the Chi Omega Prize in students participated in the Murphy Institute’s History. Most impressively of all, Elizabeth May was also Summer Program at the Institute of Economic and honored with the Alpha Lambda Delta Award for Political Studies (INSTEP) in London and Cambridge, Academic Excellence, given annually to the Newcomb including political economy majors ELIZABETH REED College senior graduating at the top of her class. ’02, FRANK SNYDER ’02, BEN YOUNG-ANGLIM ’03, During the course of 2001–2002, our seniors ELLEN LEWIS ’02, ADAM RUCH ’03 and BRANDON received a variety of other honors and participated in a WARSHAW ’03. Sixteen Tulane students attended wide variety of extracurricular activities. Elizabeth May INSTEP’s 2002 Summer Program, including political [ undergraduate political eco

was elected Senior Class Representative to the economy majors ADAM ARONOVITZ ’03, BENJAMIN Newcomb Senate, as well as Vice President and CARYL ’03, KENNETH COPELAND ’03, CHRIS Newsletter Editor of the Golden Key International DALLMAN ’03, ADAM FLISS ’03, ALANNA FRANCO ’03, Society. WHITNEY CASE and Carlyn Hansen were EVAN HERMAN ’03, ADAM KWASMAN ’03, ANH named members of the Oak Wreath, the Newcomb NGUYEN ’03, DEANNA REMMES ’03, STEPHEN College society honoring leadership and scholarship. SALYER ’03 and Ben Young-Anglim. Both Whitney Case and Elizabeth May were elected to MOLLY ELGIN ’03 and MARIA CRISTINA GUARDIA Mortar Board. Whitney Case, Elizabeth May, and ’03 were named to the Newcomb College Mortar Steven Cahall were named to Who’s Who Among Board. Molly Elgin was President of Newcomb Assets Students in American Universities and Colleges. Steven and tutor in Upward Bound. She also found time to Cahall was elected Vice President of the Tulane serve as a Copy Editor of the Tulane Hullabaloo and College Senate and Senior Representative to the counselor for the Rape Emergency and Coping Hotline Undergraduate Student Government and the Tulane on the Tulane Campus. BRIAN KELLY ’04 was a College Leadership Caucus. He was also a member of member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, an international the 2002 Green Wave Homecoming Court. Economics honor society, and tutored in economics at Juniors and sophomores majoring in political econ- the Educational Resource Center. During Spring omy also participated in a wide variety of University semester, he served as an intern for New Orleans coun- programs and activities. MARK WILLIAMS ’03 attended cilman Eddie Sapir, spearheading a voter registration the Washington Semester of American University in drive on the Tulane campus that resulted in about 300 Fall 2001, during which he interned on Capitol Hill. new registrants. Brian also was on the Dean’s Honor JESSE YEAGER ’03 spent his junior year abroad at the List, the National Dean’s List, and a member of the

8 THE EXCHANGE Fall 2002 National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the Tulane Summer Internship Program Honors Program. Ben Caryl continued to work as an intern with his employer of last summer — ENVISION EMI Inc. — The Murphy Institute Summer Internship doing research on economic, fiscal, legal and political Program, now in its seventeenth year, supports issues for the company’s clients, which include newspa- internships for several political economy majors pers and talk shows. MATTHEW MORNICK ’05, who has each year. The Institute provides a competitive won national awards for his work, had new photo- offering of grants of at least six weeks’ duration graphs published in the Tulane Review. MARCUS in the summer between the student’s sophomore WILLIAMS ’03 served as a US Navy Foreign Liaison and junior years or between the junior and sen- Officer in Singapore this summer. GILBERT NELSON ’04 traveled to Bosnia and Croatia to assist at relief ior years at Tulane. Stipends are tailored to need, camps for children who have suffered emotional trau- reflecting current levels of individual student ma because of the wars in the region. This past Spring, financial aid and the proximity of the internship he interned with Blanchard, Inc., a firm that invests in to the student’s home. The main criterion for rare gold coins, where he assisted in updating the com- selection is a well-conceived plan for employ- pany’s webpage and writing reports for clients. ment in a field related to political economy or CHRIS MYERS ’04 was elected President of the Tulane College Republicans and Vice Chair of the public policy. A detailed report and assessment Louisiana Federation of College Republicans, as well as of a student’s internship experiences is required a member of the Honor Board and a Tulane College at the completion of the summer’s work. In Senator in the Undergraduate Student Government. organizing the program, we emphasize personal Brandon Warshaw was Treasurer of his fraternity initiative by our students. Students interested in Pi Kappa Alpha in 2001–02, and will be regional the program are asked to seek out a prospective Vice President in 2002–03. This summer he worked for Robert Portman, an Ohio State Legislature employer and then apply to the Murphy Institute Representative from Cleveland. Adam Fliss was elected for the award. During the Summer of 2001 the Murphy Institute awarded eight students summer intern- nomy program ] ship grants. The Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University provided an internship for Brockton Bosson. Benjamin Caryl interned President of the Tulane Interfraternity Council for in Washington, D.C., at the Congressional Youth 2002–03. MAGGIE WILSON ’05 worked for the Tulane Emergency Services this year. She was a member of Leadership Council. ROBERT GRETHER ’03 Alpha Lambda Delta (the Honor Society at Newcomb also was in Washington, D.C., to intern with College), Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society and Congressman Elton Gallegley. Investor’s Bank the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She also and Trust Company in Boston provided an was elected the Newcomb Representative to the LAS internship for JONATHAN CAVE ’03. Curriculum Committee. FERNANDO HURTADO ’03 pursued an BROCKTON BOSSON ’03 was elected to Omega Delta Kappa national leadership fraternity. At the 2002 internship doing research in Peru. Kenneth Tulane College Commencement, DANIEL ERSPAMER Copeland interned at the New Orleans office of ’04 won the Aaron Mintz Brotherhood Award for out- Merrill Lynch. Le Centre International de standing service in the area of interfaith relations. He Lafayette provided an internship for Jesse also received the Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Yeager, and INSTEP provided Frank Snyder an Award from the Philips Foundation, as well as the internship with a solicitors’ firm in London. Tulane Honors Program Student of the Year for 2001–02 and an award for excellence as Resident Twenty political economy majors received Advisor from the Department of Housing and Murphy Institute Internship Grants for the Residence Life. Finally, Alanna Franco created a pro- Summer of 2002. Two, Ben Caryl and JASON gram called “Energy Star Showcase Dorm Room” to demonstrate energy efficient dorm life. Take a virtual continued on next page

Fall 2002 THE EXCHANGE 9 INTERNSHIPS continued from previous page tour of her web site at green.tulane.edu/energysmart/ AboutTheEnergyStar.html. In short, the Murphy Institute’s undergraduate pro- MATHERNE ’03, also won prestigious David gram in political economy clearly prospered in various Cameron Taylor Memorial Summer Travel and ways during 2001–2002. We continue to attract ambi- Enrichment Grants from Tulane College. Ben tious and highly intelligent students. Eighty-seven polit- interned with a firm of solicitors in London, ical economy majors ended the academic year with while Jason attended a film school at Rockport grade point averages of 3.0 or higher; thirty-three with College in Maine. Brock Bosson interned in the 3.5 or higher. Twenty-nine were members of the Tulane office of Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, Honors Program. Ten were Dean’s Honors Scholars. while JANET DALY ’03 worked for the Southern United States Trade Association in Murphy Institute Alumni Network New Orleans. Adam Aronovitz, Ken Copeland, One of the challenges faced by the Murphy Institute Deanna Remmes, and Alanna Franco interned is to help political economy majors in their search for in solicitors’ offices in London. Jonathan Cave professional careers. This year, to assist current students in formulating career plans, the Murphy Institute launched a new program called the Murphy Institute Alumni Network (MINET). some 460 In creating MINET, we have asked a select group of tulane students former students to share their professional knowledge and experience with current political economy majors. have graduated Alumni participants have agreed to make themselves with b.a.s in available to give advice and information to students about the kind of employment open to political econo- political economy my majors. MINET is not a job placement program, nor over the last are our alumni asked to provide employment. It is access to their “real world” experience, we hope, that will be a seventeen years. welcome source of practical advice for our students. As of May 2002, some 50 political economy alumni have volunteered their services. All have agreed to interned at Merrill Lynch in New York, and speak to current students about both their professions and the particular area of the country in which they Molly Elgin worked at the Small Business live. Some also have agreed to allow students to Survival Committee in Washington, D. C. “shadow” them for a day. The New Orleans District Attorney’s Office Among Murphy Institute alumni who have volun- provided an internship for Brian Kelly. teered for MINET are numerous attorneys whose work Fernando Hurtado conducted research in ranges from providing services to indigent clients to serv- Argentina on that country’s economic policy, ing as a US Attorney in the Department. Many of our for- and DAVID HYMAN ’03 interned at the mer students also work in the financial sector, both in New York and in other parts of the country. Others are Export/Import Bank of the United States. involved in education. Also volunteering for MINET are LAURA NICHOLSON ’04 interned in the a landscape general contractor, a freelance director of Washington office of Senator John Edwards, and cable and network television shows, a reporter for the DANIEL SCHAFFNER ’03 interned with a law Congressional Quarterly, a magazine editor, a fundraiser firm in D. C. Adam Fliss, Anh Nguyen, Ben for a city symphony, and a movie producer. Young-Anglim and Chris Dallman had INSTEP- What lies ahead? Next year, we will make regular contact with both seniors and juniors in political econ- sponsored internships with various political omy to encourage them to make use of MINET. We organizations in and around London. Finally, also plan to expand the number of Murphy Institute LEILA FARRAHI ’04 interned at the Bryce alumni involved in this new program. For additional Harlow Institute of Business and Government information about MINET please visit the web site Affairs in Washington, D. C. www.tulane.edu/~murphy/.

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MARY C. PARKER YATES LECTURE David Greenaway ★ Discusses Fate of the European Union THE SIXTH ANNUAL Yates Lecture was given on April 4, the funding★ of higher education. He has published ★ 2002, by David Greenaway, Professor of Economics and widely in academic journals including the Economic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Journal, European Economic Review,★ Economic Inquiry, Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University of Oxford Economic Papers, and the European Journal of Nottingham. His topic was “Can the European Union Political Economy. He is past Associate Editor of the Afford the Euro and Enlargement to the East?” Economic Journal and currently is Joint Managing Editor Professor Greenaway is of The World Economy. Professor Greenaway also has internationally known for ★ ★ ★ served as a consultant to the European Commission, his research in the ﬁelds ★ ★ GATT, H.M. Treasury, and the World Bank. of trade and labour ★★ The annual Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture in Political market adjustment, cross- ★★ Economy is supported by an endowed fund established border investment, inter- ★ ★ ★ in the Summer of 1996 by REBECCA YATES ’89 national trade policy, and VELANDER in memory of her late mother.

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE The Political Economy of Policy Reform

THE GOAL OF this conference held on November 9 and economy of policy-making and reform, while others 10, 2001, at Tulane University was to explore the polit- explored international aspects of policy reform. The ical and economic foundations of good policy-making. conference, organized and hosted by the Murphy One of the striking things about trade policy during Institute’s Doug Nelson (Economics), drew participants the last half century has been the expansion and sta- from both academic and policy making circles includ- blization of liberal trading regimes. Yet the overwhlem- ing J. Michael Finger (American Enterprise Institute ing majority of research on the political economy of and World Bank), Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth), Jeffrey trade seems to assume that the most important thing to Hart (Indiana), Patrick Messerlin (Institut d’Etudes explain is protection. The Politiques de Paris), Sam same is true of political at a time when the aim Laird (UNCTAD), Bernard economy research in other Hoekman (The World related areas. The distin- of trade policy is expansion Bank), and Raed Safadi guished group of partici- and stabilization, why does (OECD). Topics explored pants who presented most research on trade in panel discussions includ- papers at this conference ed The WTO, Explaining addressed various issues policy assume that protec- Trade Liberalization, Inter- related to this problem. tion is the most important national Environmental Some focused primarily thing to explain? Issues, and Policy Learning on the domestic political and Policy Convergence.

Fall 2002 THE EXCHANGE 11 Class of 1986 Marketing Strategist for BMC Software in Houston, Texas. LUC LAFONTAN SCOTT SCHILLER remains a guid- ALUMNI is Vice-President for Corporate ing force at S&S Homebuilders, one of Technology at Primemedia in New the most active builders in the Chicago NEWS York. NOEL COMEAUX is a Maritime area. Scott and Michael Schiller Planner at Transystems Corporation launched S&S Homebuilders in 1992 in Reston, Virginia. MICHELLE in an effort to re-establish the vital is manager of Contract Management, MENDELL DRUCKER practices link between the sprawling urban which provides network contract servic- immigration law in Miami. Andrew landscape and the quiet tranquility of es for Worldcom in Dallas, Texas. Frank is senior account executive for a new home. DALE MILLER is Director and Instinet Corporation, a brokerage firm Regional Office Manager of Credit in Scarsdale, New York. ASHLEY Class of 1987 Suisse/First Boston in New York. LIEBKE is president of Vision Media ANDREW SUZMAN is a portfolio and co-owner of Bad Boy/Bad Girl pro- PAUL PRATHER recently joined the manager at Capital Research and ductions in Atlanta, Georgia. JUSTIN law firm of Feldman, Franden, Management in Scarsdale, New York. PERRYMAN is an attorney and presi- Woodard & Farris in Tulsa, Oklahoma. dent of Globe Financial Group in He has a diverse trial practice repre- Class of 1990 Houston, where he represents financial senting trucking, manufacturing, and and legal concerns of his clients in the telecommunications companies. After KAREN JACKSON EASON is special US and Mexico. JONATHAN RICH is receiving her Ph.D. from New York investigator for medical claims at managing director of Finance Capital, University, NAOMI GARDBERG is Progressive Auto Insurance in Ft. L.C., a boutique investment bank in now assistant professor of international Lauderdale. RICHARD FRANK is a Oakland, N.J. NITA KAY SMITH business at Rutgers University. third grade teacher in the public RICHARDSON is an attorney with school system in Nashville, Tennessee. Ulmer and Berne in Cleveland. Her Class of 1988 GORDON ROSE is a partner with practice involves securities litigation Weizenecker, Rose, Mottern & Fisher, a affecting major brokerage entities. KEITH DOUGHERTY is assistant pro- civil litigation firm in Atlanta, Georgia. fessor of political science at Florida Also practicing civil litigation is DAVID Class of 1993 International University in Miami. Also COX, an attorney and junior partner living in Miami is JONATHAN with Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee in JASON COOK works for Warburg DRUCKER, who practices criminal Charleston, S.C. GEORGE RENAUDIN Dillon Read in Stamford Connecticut, defense, civil rights, and commercial is senior vice president of the Ochsner where he is Senior Analyst in the Latin law. MARY ANN HOSKINS is an Health Plan. WHITNEY HOUGH is American Corporate Bond research attorney at Halpern, Danner, Martin & senior business development manager team. Jason specializes in analysis of Miles in Metairie. MARC SASS is a tax for Williams Corporation, where her steel companies and telephone and attorney with Becker and Poliakoff in work includes providing financial cable TV companies. He also serves as Bradenton, Florida. analysis, market definition, and managing editor for his company’s research of investment opportunities publications. LARA GELLER has Class of 1989 for leading gas pipeline companies. worked for Citrex Systems in Ft. Laud- erdale, Florida, for the past four years. MICHAEL ARATA has a double pro- Class of 1991 (Citrex is the world leader in Applica- fessional life: he is both an attorney tion Server Software and technologies and a film and theater production DAN COUGHLIN is an attorney with that offer digital independence.) Lara manager in New Orleans. His latest Fuller & Vaughan, a civil litigation is also president of the Tulane Club of film — “The Scoundrel’s Wife ”— was law firm in Johnson City, Texas. South Florida and serves on the Board distributed nationally and received DOUGLAS CAREY is an attorney at of Directors of the Tulane Alumni excellent reviews. SEAN BERKOWITZ the New Orleans Legal Assistance Association. Her Tulane Club won the is Assistant United States Attorney, Corporation, which provides legal serv- Outstanding Club of the year 2002 at U.S. Department of Justice, Chicago. ices for indigent clients. ANISSA the Tulane Alumni awards Banquet in JAMES BOURGEOIS is President and ALBRO is an attorney at Vinson and May. CHRISTOPHER OEHLMANN CEO of Bourgeois, Inc., a landscaping Elkins in Houston. ELIZABETH is a manager for Pharmacia in firm in Santee, California. LISA KAHN SHOSS KARKOWSKY works as a Princeton, N.J. While still working on

12 THE EXCHANGE Fall 2002 her Ph.D. in German Language and program manager for the National Class of 1996 Literature at Washington University, Center for the Mississippi River at St. Louis, JENNIFER DRAKE ASKEY Tulane. After receiving her MBA from JAMES ESPOSITO is senior network is a visiting instructor in the Gender Tulane, NANCY PITTS has been engineer at Nortel Networks in Studies Program in German Language accepted to the Foreign Service and Weston, Florida. He is responsible for and Literature at the University of awaits assignment from the State local and wide area networks in the Utah. ROBIN FEINBERG is a free- Department. BRAD METTLER is Caribbean, as well as in Central and lance director/producer in Los associate director of sales at the Hyatt South America. BRYANT GARDNER Angeles, where her clients include Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in is an associate at the law firm of Win- NBC, UPN, CBS and various cable New Mexico. He handles sales and ston & Strawn in Washington, D.C. television shows. marketing at a 350 room luxury resort. PAUL GREENSPAN graduated from STEPHANIE PONN is a fundraiser at the JD/MBA program at the University Class of 1995 the Chicago Sinfonietta. After serving of Florida in May 2000. After passing his six-year term in the US Marine the Florida Bar Exam, he worked at MELISSA MEMOLO graduated from Corps, JAMES KOKOSZYNSKI is KPMG as a consultant in the conven- the Washington and Lee School of now procurement manager at IBM’s tion, sports and entertainment consult- Law in May 2000. After clerking for office in New Paltz, New York. Since ing group in Tampa, Florida. He Hon. Joseph R. Goodwin, U.S. District graduating from Yale Law School in recently left Tampa for Atlanta, where Court, Southern District, West 2001, ANDREA MARSH has been law he has taken a position with Ernst & Virginia., she joined the law firm of clerk for the Hon. Keith Ellison, U.S. Young in its Litigation Advisory Ser- Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White in District Court, Southern District, in vices group. MATT KUIVINEN is a Washington. After finishing a masters Laredo, Texas. In Fall 2002, she will graduate student in Security Studies at program in Urban and Public Affairs join Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc. in the Elliott School of International at the University of New Orleans, Austin, Texas, as Arthur Liman Public MOLLY WRIGHT SULLIVAN is now Interest Law Fellow. continued on next page

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and methods among scientists, philosophers, and econ- In May 2002, the Murphy Institute’s undergraduate omists interested in analyzing and evaluating political program enrolled 126 Tulane undergraduates pursu- and economic institutions and practices. The inaugural ing bachelor of arts degrees in political economy, and issue of PPE appeared in our alumni — most still in February, 2002. the early stages of their In July 2001, the now beginning its careers — are pursuing Murphy Institute broad- twenty-third year, the professional careers across ened its operations to a remarkable variety include a new Center for murphy institute is one of fields. The Murphy Ethics and Public Affairs, of tulane university’s Institute’s core faculty are which offers both Visiting among Tulane’s most pro- Faculty Fellowships and great academic ductive and respected, Graduate Prize Fellow- success stories. honored in recent years ships. The idea driving with both major teaching the Center is that Tulane awards and prestigious should have a place where faculty, students, and visitors research fellowships. In Fall 2002, the Murphy can more broadly examine critical issues of right and Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs wrong, justice and injustice, citizenship and communi- welcomes its ﬁrst group of Graduate Prize Fellows; in ty, and the ethics of the professions. Fall 2003, its ﬁrst Visiting Faculty Fellows.

Fall 2002 THE EXCHANGE 13 continued from previous page managing the political campaign of is a graduate student at Columbia Liz Farley, a candidate for office in University in the masters program in Affairs at George Washington Univer- Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. Urban Planning at the Graduate sity, where his major field of concentra- CHRISTOPHER SUELLENTROP is School of Architecture, Preservation tion is transnational security and the assistant editor of Microsoft/Slate and Planning. RYAN DIXON received Middle East. JONATHAN BEYER is Magazine in Washington, D.C. a masters in International Relations defense counsel for the Department of from the London School of Econom- Defense Office of Hearings and Class of 1998 ics. He is working with Joint Staff Intel- Appeals in Washington, D.C.. He works ligence at the US Pacific Command in on security clearances and special edu- STEPHANIE SYKES received an Honolulu, where he writes threat esti- cation issues. He also teaches legal MBA from Tulane in 1999. After work- mates and analyses of South and research and writing in the LLM pro- ing at Arthur Anderson in federal tax Southeast Asia. TYLER STORTI is fin- gram at Georgetown Law Center. consulting, she plans to attend law ishing his second year of law school at school in Fall 2002. TRE MCQUEEN is the University of Oregon. This sum- Class of 1997 a Lieutenant in the United States Navy. mer, he will work as a law clerk in the He recently served as a rescue helicop- legal department of the J.R. Simplot ANDREA ZAVOS is Captain in the US ter pilot aboard the USS Theodore Company in Boise, Idaho. ROBERT Army in the Medical Services Corps. Roosevelt in Operation Enduring MANN is an English language instruc- Since November, 2000, she also has Freedom. TODD ROJAS is senior tor in Japan. MICHAEL PISA has been a Contract Analyst in the internal auditor for Tidewater, Inc. in enrolled in a Ph.D. program in inter- Resource Management Division. She New Orleans. national relations and international plans to attend law school and special- political economy at the University of ize in health law. DEVIN FADAOL is Class of 1999 California, San Diego. JEREMY an associate at the law firm of Lobman, PERELMAN is a research analyst for a Carnahan, Batt, Angelle & Nader in AARON ALLARDYCE has finished trading oriented hedge fund at J. Gold- New Orleans. GEORGE WHEELER his first year of law school at New York man and Co. in Manhattan. TOREN works as a project manager for University. SCOTT WANDSTRAT MUSHOVIC is an ensign in the U.S. Chemonics International in Washing- graduated from Washington University, Navy aboard the USS Princeton, whose ton, D.C. He manages USAID and St. Louis, Law School in May 2002. He home port is San Diego, California. Inter-American Development Bank has accepted a position with a litigation and World Bank Funds in South Africa, firm in Atlanta. ZARA WATKINS has Class of 2001 Vietnam, Trinidad and the Dominican finished her second year of law school Republic. SUZANNE BRADLEY is at Georgetown University Law Center. JOHN REED is a programmer for TEDDY MOORE and JASON Reliant Resources in Houston, Texas. KALISH graduated from Tulane Law SIENNA RAKESTRAW has finished School in May 2002. Jason will work in her first year at Northwestern Law the New York City Attorney’s office, School. TYLER HOLM has been Manhattan, and Teddy will work at a accepted to the US Navy Officers law firm in Birmingham. After working Candidate School. SUSANA MARTINEZ for two years at Lehman Brothers in manages social security funds and the World Trade Center, PAUL pension plans for the Department of LEGGETT has enrolled in the MBA Economic Planning of the Dominican program at the Darden Business Republic. HALEY GRIFFIN has School at the University of Virginia enrolled in the masters program at the in Fall 2002. Maxwell School of Public Administra- tion, Syracuse University. BARBARA Class of 2000 HALLENBECK is a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley’s New Orleans office. After spending two years in the Teach RAGAN NARESH is an editor of the for America program, AMY BENOLD Congressional Quarterly in Washington, Tre McQueen ’98 is a Lieutenant in the United States Navy. He recently served as a is now a third grade teacher in the D.C. He has passed the Foreign Service rescue helicopter pilot aboard the USS Theodore Ravenswood City School District in the exam and is awaiting assignment by the Roosevelt in Operation Enduring Freedom. San Francisco area. ABBE VERNICK State Department.

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continued from page 1 economists and political scientists will be talking back sponsored journals that have died or moved elsewhere. and forth to each other about whether their methods There are many benefits for a university hosting enlighten the other one’s fields or not,” Gaus says. journals, says Teichgraeber. “The university should be, As core faculty members of the Murphy Institute, if nothing else, an arena of ideas. And journals like Gaus and Riley teach courses required for the inter- Politics, Philosophy & Economics are precisely the sorts of disciplinary political economy major. Riley also is things that a university of Tulane’s stature should be current president and Gaus former president of the supporting.” Teichgraeber also views academic journals International Economics and Philosophy Society. as “an important expression of the university’s commit- Co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute and Sage ment to graduate education.” Publications of London, England, and Beverly Hills, The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2000/2001 ranked Calif., Politics, Philosophy & Economics will be published Tulane’s Department of Philosophy in the top 10 in the three times a year, with a print run of 500 hard copies sub-field of political philosophy. The report’s author, and an online version for subscription by libraries. In Brian Leiter, a professor at the University of Texas, addition to the conference papers, the journal is receiv- notes that the rankings reflect the “reputation and ing submissions from all around the world. influence of work done by the faculty.” Richard Teichgraeber, Murphy Institute director With reputation counting so much in academic cir- and professor of history, says the new periodical is one cles, Teichgraeber says a new journal will provide of only a handful of peer-reviewed academic journals at opportunities to broaden the mission of the Murphy Tulane today. Tulane Studies in Philosophy, English, Institute. “We want to draw more attention to out- Political Science and Zoology; the Tulane Drama Review; standing faculty here working in the area of moral and and the Mississippi Valley Historical Review (now the political philosophy and thereby help to draw a bigger Journal of American History) are previous Tulane- and stronger pool of graduate applicants.”

By Mary Ann Travis, from Inside Tulane, April 1, 2001, courtesy Tulane University Office of Publications Fall 2002 THE EXCHANGE 15 CONTENTS

Letter from the Director 2

The Murphy Institute 3

Center for Ethics and Public Affairs 4

Faculty Professional Activity 6

Undergraduate Political Economy Program 8

Publications, Conferences and Lectures 11

Alumni News 12

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