Admission is free.
The discussion will feature formal responses by Cornell politics professor Craig Allin and associate professor of sociology Mary Olson. Leon Tabak, associate professor of computer science, will moderate. Williams is John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and chair of the department at George Mason University. He has frequently given expert testimony before Congressional committees on public policy issues ranging from labor policy to taxation and spending. His writings have appeared in scholarly journals including Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review, Georgia Law Review, Journal of Labor Economics and Social Science Quarterly, as well as popular publications such as Newsweek, Freeman, National Review, Reader's Digest, Cato Journal and Policy Review.