Dear Public Choice Society Members and Friends,
The 2009 annual meeting of the Public Choice Society will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 5–8, 2009. Registration will begin at 3:00PM on Thursday, March 5, and the sessions will extend from early morning Friday, March 6, through noon on Sunday, March 8. Convening in Las Vegas is a first for the society, so it will be a new experience for all of us.
I will e-mail you again soon with a formal call for papers, but I am sending out this preliminary announcement now so that you can set aside the dates and make plans to attend. Please also convey this announcement to your colleagues who have research interests related to public choice but who may not have attended recent (or any) PCS meetings and who therefore may not be on our e-mail list.
We normally have a number of members of the European and Japanese Public Choice Societies attending our meetings and, after both the excellent World Meeting in Amsterdam in 2007 and the outstanding annual meeting in San Antonio in 2008, I want to extend a special invitation to our colleagues from Europe, Japan, and elsewhere around the world to join us in Las Vegas.
Since the political science side of our interdisciplinary society has been under-represented in recent PCS meetings, I want especially to urge participation by political scientists who used to come to PCS meetings but have not attended recently and by other (particularly junior) political scientists doing public choice work who may never have attended our meetings.
I also want to invite you to consider assembling three or four related papers into a proposal for a complete panel session (perhaps even including discussants). If this is of interest to you, it is not too soon to get in contact with prospective panel members.
Please remember that we now offer formal membership in the Society for $30 a year ($15 for student members). Within the next few days you will receive an e-mail from Jo Ann Burgess of the Center for Study of Public Choice for you to renew or initiate your membership.
Please note that PCS members receive a $30 discount ($15 for students) on the registration fee for the annual meeting, so membership is effectively free if you attend the meetings regularly. Moreover, the Society has a discount subscription arrangement with Springer (the publisher of Public Choice): membership with a print subscription to Public Choice is $100 and with an electronic subscription is $80. This is a substantial discount from the publisher’s regular individual subscription rate.
I hope to see you in Las Vegas for our 2009 meeting.
Best wishes,
Nicholas R. Miller
President, Public Choice Society, 2008–10
PS. The editors of the European Journal of Political Economy would like members of the Public Choice Society to know that, as of 2008, the EJPS has been included in the Social Science Citation Index. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical research on economic phenomena within a scope that encompasses collective decision making, political behavior, and the role of institutions, and it welcomes submissions from members of the society.
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Nicholas R. Miller, President
Public Choice Society
Department of Political Science
1000 Hilltop Circle
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
Tel: 410-455-2187
e-mail: nmiller@umbc.edu
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~nmiller/
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