On Civil Conflict & Terrorism
October 24, 2017. Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, “Assessing the War on Terror: Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives.”
September 21, 2017. Orange, CA: Chapman University’s International Day of Peace Symposium: An Age of Global Crisis, “Lessons from the Syrian Conflict.”
February 24, 2017. West Palm Beach, FL: Temple Beth El, “The Islamic Awakening, the Syrian Conflict, and Implications for Israel.”
February 22, 2016. Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, “The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict: The Remaking of the Fertile Crescent.”
March 26; April 2, 9, 16, 2015. (Open Lecture Series) Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, "From the Arab Spring to Civil War: The Remaking of the Middle East."
November 23, 2014. Washington, DC.: Annual Meetings of the Middle East Studies Association, "Marginalization, Extreme Uncertainty, and the Syrian Civil War."
November 13, 20; December 4, 11, 2014 (Open Lectures Series), Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University "Understanding Financial Markets."
March 27, 2014. Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, “The Syrian Civil War in Historical Perspectives: Implications for the Arab Israeli Conflict.”
March 19, 26; April 2, 9, 16, 23, 2013. (Open Lecture Series), Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, The Religions and Culture of the Middle East: A Native’s Account.
March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2013. (Lecture Series), Palm Beach Gardens, FL: Temple Judea of Palm Beach County, "Understanding Islam".
February 20, 27; March 5, 12, 2012. (Open Lecture Series) Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, "America´s Economic challenges."
November 13, 2011. Jupiter, FL: Florida Atlantic University, "The Political Economy of the Global Economic Crisis."
May 5, 2007. Santa Barbara: University of California: 8th Annual Conference of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, “Al Jazeera and the Counter Movement to Globalization.”
April 21, 2006. Prague. University of Economics: Prague Conference on the Political Economy of Freedom, “Identity as a Psychological Foundation for Social Conflict.”
January 5, 1999. New York: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “Social Conflict and Economic Development in the Middle East.”
April 27, 1998. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Center for International Studies. “Political Entrepreneurs and the Economics of Civil War.”
January 6, 1997. New Orleans: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “An Alternative Explanation to the Economic Roots of War: A Game Theoretic Model of Ethnic Cleansing.”
On Economics & Political Economy
March 30, 2011. Cambridge: Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, “Religious Identity, Informal Institutions and the Nation-States of the Near East.”
November 6, 1999. Prague, Charles University: The Annual Meetings of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy, “Identity-Sharing Groups and Informal Economies.”
January 4, 1999. New York: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “A Decade of Conflicts in Czech Economic Transformation.”
January 4, 1998. Chicago: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “Mafianomics: Game Theory Models Capturing the Dynamics of Mob Entrepreneurship in Post Soviet States.”
April 3, 1997. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar. “The Relativist Fallacy of Impossibility of Value-Neutral Inquiry in Political Economy: A Case Study of the Causes and Consequences of Self-Regulating Markets.”
January 7, 1995. Washington, D. C.: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “Incommensurable Paradigms or Impatient Economists: Knowledge and Monetary Theory.”
July 17, 1994. Jouy-en-Josas, France: Groupe Hautes Études Commerciales, The Annual Meetings of the Society For the Advancement of Socioeconomics, “The Logical Foundations of the Schism Between Classical and Reform Liberalism.”
June 11, 1994. Wellesley, MA: Babson College. The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society, “A Synthesis of Methodological Individualist and Holist Criteria for Economic Explanation.”
June 12, 1994. Wellesley, MA: Babson College. The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society, “Principles of Economics in Al-Maqrizi: Rising Out of Scholasticism.”
May 19, 1994. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar, “Reconstructing Austrian and Marxian Criteria for Economic Explanation.”
March 19, 1994. Boston, MA: The Annual Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, “Realist Criteria for Economic Explanation.”
January 4, 1994. Boston, MA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, Realist vs. Empiricist Criteria For Economic Explanation: Are They Incompatible?” (Read by Laurence S. Moss).
June 29, 1993. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University, The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society, “Incommensurable Paradigms or Impatient Economists: Knowledge and Monetary Theory.”
January 7, 1993. Anaheim, CA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “Market Versus Non-Market Mechanisms: A Differentiation and an Evaluation.”
January 6, 1993. Anaheim, CA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “The Postmodernist Fallacy of the Incommensurability of Economic Theories: A Case Study in Monetary Theory.”
September 17, 1992. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar, “The Postmodernist Fallacy of the Incommensurability of Economic Theories: A Case Study in Monetary Theory.”
June 2, 1992. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, The Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society, “Should Rival Interpretations of Money and Credit Continue to Survive: An Exercise in Theory Evaluation”
January 5, 1992. New Orleans, LA: The Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, “Does Metaphysics Shape Marx's Theory of Money?”
September 19, 1991. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Economics, Kress Seminar, “The Epistemological and Methodological Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Theory of Neutral Money.”