Professor Ross Emmett and Rachel Penn (PTCD senior) published the article "No Grade Inflation at James Madison College" on the John William Pope Foundation for Higher Education Policy (UNC) website.

Ross Emmett published in January 2009: Frank Knight & the Chicago School in American Economics. Routledge (Studies in the History of Economics), 2009.

Ross Emmett presented:   “History of Economics and History of Science: A Comparative Look at Recent Work in Both Fields" at the “History of Economics as History of Social Science” workshop, L’École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 19 June 2009;  “The Chicago Workshop Model: Normalizing or Fragmenting Scientific Collaboration?” at the “History of Recent Economics conference”, University of Antwerp, Belgium, June 2009;  “Specializing in Interdisciplinarity: The Committee on Social Thought as Chicago’s Antidote to Specialization in the Social Sciences,” at the “History of Political Economy conference”, Duke University, May 2009 and at the “History of Economics Society” meeting, June 2009;  “Man and Society in Adam Smith’s Natural Morality: The Impartial Spectator, the Man of System, and the Invisible Hand,” at the “Adam Smith as Theologian” conference, Edinburgh, sponsored by the Templeton Foundation, January 2009.  With Laura Kovacek (PTCD senior), he presented “Is the Chicago School a Creative Community?” Presentation at the “Creative Communities: Bloomsbury and Others” conference, Duke University (October 2008).

In May, Ross Emmett was a visiting professor at the Département d'Économie et de Gestion, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in France. 

Professor Emmett published, with Bryan Ritchie and John T. Fournier, “L’avenir du Midwest, de la rust belt aux start-ups?” [English Title: “Recreating Entrepreneurial Economies in the Mid-Western United States”]. Politique américaine. 10 (Spring 2008): 105-116. 

Professor Emmett published, “How Should We Think of the Success of the Chicago School of Economics?” in Research in the History of Economic Thought & Methodology, edited by W.J. Samuels, R.B. Emmett and J.E. Biddle. Vol. 26-A (2008): 47-57; “Frank H. Knight’s Criticisms of Henry George.” in Henry George: Political Idealogue, Social Philosopher, and Economic Theorist, edited by Laurence S. Moss, 61-66.  Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008;  “Chicago School (new perspectives),” The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008;  “Chicago School,” in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity. Macmillan, 2008;  The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, by D.N. McCloskey. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 30.3 (September 2008): 420-22.

Professor Emmett presented “Sharpening Tools in the Workshop: The Workshop System and the Chicago School’s Success, ” at the History of Economics Society annual meeting, York University, Toronto, Ontario (June 2008); École normale supérieure de Cachan (May 2008);  “A Social Studies of Science Explanation for Why Historians of Economics Hate Social Studies of Science,” at a roundtable on “Why Historians of Economics Hate Social Studies of Science,” History of Economics Society meeting, York University (Toronto, June 2008).

Professor Emmett joined the advisory board for the MSU’s Families and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition in May 2008, and will serve this year as a mentor for one of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows through the Center for Advanced Studies in International Development.

Professor Ross Emmett attended "Revisiting the Chicago School" conference at Notre Dame University, September 2007 and presented "How Should We Think of the Success of the Chicago School of Economics?" and "Sharpening Tools in the Workshop: The Workshop System and the Chicago School's Success."  He attended the conference “The Role of Engaged Universities in Economic Transformation, University Research Corridor Conference,” October 2007 at the University of Michigan.

Ross Emmett will run a conference on "Capitalism, Freedom, and Religion," January 24-27, 2008 in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Ross Emmett published the essay "Knight's Challenge (to Hayek): Spontaneous Order is Not Enough for Governing a Liberal Society" in Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order co-edited by Professor Louis Hunt, October, 2007.

Ross B. Emmett published Biographical Dictionary of American Economics (2 volumes), edited by Ross B. Emmett (London: Thoemmes/Continuum, 2006), which was released this summer.

Ross B. Emmett presented the paper "Knight's Challenge: Hayek's Spontaneous Order is Not Enough for Governing a Liberal Society" at Utah State University, Political Science Seminar, November 29, 2006.

Ross B. Emmett will be giving presentations at the economics department of Utah State, and another at Acadia University in Wolfeville, Nova Scotia in October.

Ross B. Emmett will be presenting papers at a number of future conferences: "The Religion of a Skeptic: Frank H. Knight's Early Views" at "The Role of Religion in Twentieth Century Political Economy: Insights from Hayek, Knight, Smith, and Viner," Association for Christian Economists meeting, Allied Social Science Association, January 5, 2007; "Did the Chicago School Reject Frank Knight?" Presentation at "Chicago Economics in Historical and Philosophical Perspective," History of Economics Society session at Allied Social Science Association meeting, January 6, 2007; "Discussion and the Evolution of Institutions in a Liberal Democracy: Frank Knight Joins the Debate," prepared for a Liberty Fund symposium on "Hayek and the Liberal Tradition," December 7-10, 2006; "Malthus Reconsidered." PERC Policy Series. Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana, 2006.

Ross B. Emmett will participate in several teaching related presentations: "Surfing the Past: Online Resources for Teaching the History of Economic Thought," at "Great Ideas for Teaching the History of Economic Thought," History of Economics Society session at Allied Social Science Association meeting, January 6, 2007; and "Designing Games and Simulations for Learning," for Lilly Seminar Series, Michigan State University, November 16, 2006.

Bryan Ritchie, Ross Emmett and Louise Jezierski are conducting a special research seminar that focuses on identifying the key public policy option that will help improve Michigan’s economic future. The seminar involves twelve hand-picked students that have an interest in studying the public policy of economic development.  That class will first research the economic public policies of eight U.S. states and four international countries. Students will then compare the public policies of these regions in order to determine what is working to foster demand for high tech, high paying jobs and what is not. Next, students will compare their findings to the decisions being made in Michigan. Finally, they will prepare new policy proposals that will be presented to the MSU Board of Regents, the State of Michigan, and to private economic actors.

Ross B. Emmett is editing a publication forthcoming in June, The Biographical Dictionary of American Economists. Thoemmes Continuum, 2006.  (for publication details, see here).

Ross B. Emmett  published "De gustibus est disputandum: Frank H. Knight's reply to George Stigler and Gary Becker's 'De gustibus non est disputandum', with an introductory essay," Journal of Economic Methodology 13.1 (March 2006): 97-111. 

Professor Emmett attended "HOPE 2006: Life Writing and the History of Economics," sponsored by History of Political Economy, Duke University, April 2006, at which he presented a paper entitled "Oral History and the Historical Reconstruction of Twentieth Century Economics." 

Professor Emmett received grant from the Intramural Research Grant Program, Michigan State, January 2006 - May 2007, for work on "Frank Knight and American Social Science," a book that should be completed during the course of the grant.

Professor Ross B. Emmett has completed a three-month Julian Simon Fellowship with PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana.

Professor Emmett wrote a paper entitled "The Critics of Frank Knight on Henry George," for presentation at the annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association (New York, March 2005). It will be published in 2006 in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

Professor Emmett’s entry about "Frank H. Knight" will appear in the Enciclopedia Filosofica (Milano: Bompiani, 2006).

Ross B. Emmett will be presenting "Recent Interpretations of Frank Knight and Henry George" at the Eastern Economic Association Conference in New York in March 2005. Emmett attended the "Externalities as Justifications for Government Intervention" conference February 3-6 in San Antonio, Texas.

Professor Ross B. Emmett has been named as a co-editor of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, a research annual series. Professor Emmett shares editorial responsibilities with Professors Warren J. Samuels and Jeff E. Biddle, both of whom are members of Michigan State University's Department of Economics.