You are cordially invited to

The Second Annual Reception of the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences (CNISS) in honor of Undergraduate Education at the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University and its

Honors Programs

Monday, April 15, 2002

4:30 P.M.

At the Whittemore House

At Washington University

CNISS is the brainchild of Douglass C. North, co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University. He has spent more than 50 years pondering complex variations of a simple question: Why do some countries prosper while others remain poor, unstable and underdeveloped?

He joined the faculty of Washington University in 1983 as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of Economics, and served as director of the Center in Political Economy from 1984 to 1990.

In 1999, he founded CNISS to foster and encourage interdisciplinary education and research in new institutional social sciences.

Itai Sened, CNISS Director, is professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. His main interests are theory of institutions, game theory and the evolution of property rights institutions. He is the author of The Political Institution of Property Rights, by Cambridge University Press (1997) and of Political Bargaining by Sage Publications (2001).

He has also published articles in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics and The Journal of Theoretical Politics. He is the co-editor, with Jack Knight, of Explaining Social Institutions by The University of Michigan Press (1995).

Program

4:30-5:00 pm Refreshments, hors d’oeuvres, and poster session

5:00 pm Opening remarks by Dean Ed Macias

5:10 pm Keynote Lecture by Nobel Prize Laureate Douglass C. North

5:25 pm Presentations by Undergraduate Honors Students

5:45 pm Introduction of new students admitted to the Certificate Program in New Institutional Social Sciences

For more information, visit our website at http://cniss.wustl.edu