FEE Summer 2008 Reunion at the SEAs

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Left to right, front row: Meg Patrick, Nick Snow, Liya Palagashvili, Peter Lewin, Bruce Caldwell, Steve Horwitz, Ivan Pongragic, Peter Leeson
Second row: Tony Carilli, Geoffrey Lea, Gene Callahan, Dan D'Amico, Peter Boettke, Chris Coyne.

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  1. Bob Murphy8:57 PM

    Were all of you faculty? If not, the student/teacher ratio was even better than Hillsdale's!

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  2. gcallah12:25 AM

    This was everyone from the FEE seminars who was at the SEAs -- it's mostly faculty, but some interns who were there as well. No students at all, as far as I am aware.

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  3. Liya8:07 PM

    What a great picture!

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  4. Meg Patrick12:29 PM

    I must say, we look like quite a formidable group...

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  5. gcallah6:06 PM

    Most of us do look formidable, but Dan D'Amico looks very fuzzy.

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