Spring 2025 Center for Ethics Public Lecture: Virgil Storr

Each semester, the Center for Ethics invites distinguished academics to present their current work at the Center for Ethics Public Lecture. Since 2001, the Center for Ethics has hosted more than 200 guest speakers. The Center for Ethics public lectures are free and open to all members of the Tulane community as well as the general public. 

On Thursday, April 24 at 4 PM, the Center for Ethics will host Virgil Storr, Professor of Economics at George Mason University for the Spring 2025 CE Public Lecture in the Diboll Galeery, Room 300 on the 3rd floor of the Malkin Sacks Commons. 

Virgil Henry Storr is Vice President of Academic and Student Programs at the Mercatus Center, a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at George Mason University, and the Don C. Lavoie Senior Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. 

Professor Storr’s research focuses on the social and moral aspects of markets, the challenges of community recovery after disasters, how culture affects economic activity, and the social and economic history of the Bahamas. He has authored several books, most recently Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? with Ginny Seung Choi, which investigates the relationship between markets and morality. His writings in political economy have been published in Small Business Economics, Sociological Review, Public Choice, Rationality & Society, the Journal of Urban Affairs, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Review of Austrian Economics.

The Center for Ethics’ Public Lecture is co-sponsored by 89.9 WWNO.