Austrian Scholars Conference 2004
Named Lectures
Mises Memorial LectureRichard Ebeling, Foundation for Economic Education”Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom”Rothbard Memorial Lecture
Joseph Stromberg, Mises Institute
“Rothbard’s Systematic Defense of Liberty”
Hazlitt Memorial Lecture
Sean Corrigan, Capital Insight
“Theory Meets Praxis: The Austrian Business Cycle Theory in Today’s Economy”
Hayek Memorial Lecture
Toby Baxendale, London England
“Law v. Legislation: A Hayekian Entrepreneur in London”
Schedule
THURSDAY March 18
8:00-8:45am Shuttle from AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn to Mises every 15 min.
9:00-10:30 Book Signing and Discussion
- Tom DiLorenzo: How Capitalism Saved America
- Lew Rockwell: Speaking of Liberty
- Mark Thornton: Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
- Hans Hoppe: The Myth of National Defense
- Hunt Tooley: The Western Front: Battleground and Home Front in the First World War
- Richard Ebeling: Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom
- Randall Holcombe: From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Democracy
- “Capitalism, Cuba, and Castro: A Report from Recent Travels,” with Yuri N. Maltsev (Carthage College)
- Robert Blumen
- Antony Mueller (Universitiy of Erlangen-Nuremberg and University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil)
- Jeff Scott (Wells Fargo)
- Morgan O. Reynolds (Little Rock, Arkansas)
- “The Logic of (Social) Action: Austrian Praxeology as Law-and-Economics Proper” Josef Sima (Prague School of Economics)
- “Property, Causality, and Liability” Hans-Hermann Hoppe (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
- “Private and Public Prisons: The Impossibility of State Justice” Daniel J. D’Amico (Loyola University New Orleans)
- “Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman“ Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
- “Mises’s Hidden Enemy: Othmar Spann’s Universalism” Hiroyuki Okon (Kokugakuin University, Tokyo) and Shigeki Tomo (Kyoto-Sangyo University)
- “A Fifth Method of Fixing Belief? Some Peircean Reflections on Methodological Apriorism” Steven Yates (Mises Institute)
- Commentator: David Gordon (Mises Review)
- “The Cluster of Entrepreneurial Errors: Cyclical Malinvestment at the Firm Level” Rich Grimm (Grove City College)
- “Accounting for the Business Cycle: Nominal Price Rigidities, Factor Heterogeneity, and Austrian Capital Theory” Robert Mulligan (Western Carolina University)
- “Rationality and Austrian Business Cycle Theory” Brian Simpson (National University)
- “The Entrepreneurial Character of Science” Allan Walstad (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown)
- “Science and Market as Adaptive Classifying Systems” Thomas McQuade (New York University)
- Commentator
10:15-11:45am SESSIONS
A. Capital Markets. Chair: Rich Grimm (Grove City College)
- “The Evolution of Business Markets: Perspectives of New Austrian Capital Theory” Michael Ehret (Free University of Berlin)
- “”Capital in Disequilibrium: An Austrian Approach to Recession and Recovery” John P. Cochran and Noah Yetter (Metropolitan State College, Denver)
- “A Defense of the Traditional Austrian Theory of Interest” Paul Cwik (Mises Institute)
B. The Political Economy of Education. Chair: Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri)
- “Robert Lewis Dabney and the Case for ‘Trickle-Down’ Education” Barry Simpson (University of South Alabama)
- “Extramural Education, An Interim Plan: From State Schooling to Free-Market Alternatives” Linda Schrock Taylor (The Learning Clinic)
- Comments by Mark Brandly (Ferris State University)
C. Deflation in Theory and Policy. Chair: Jörg Guido Hülsmann
- “Legal Tender Laws and Fiat Deflation” Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Mises Institute)
- “Apoplithorismosphobia” Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)
- “An Essay on Deflation” William Barnett (Loyola University New Orleans)
11:45-1:00 Lunch on your own
11:45am Shuttle from Mises to AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn
12:30pm Shuttle from AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn to Mises
1:00-2:30pm SESSIONS
A. Pricing, Management, Entrepreneurship. Chair: Mark Brandly (Ferris State University)
- “Third Law or Third Rail? Another Look at the Alchian and Allen Theorem” William Anderson (Frostburg State University)
- “Property Rights, Incentives, and Government Regulation: Explaining the Rise of Omnipotent Management“ by Alexandre Padilla (Metropolitan State College, Denver) and Andrei Kreptul (Seattle University School of Law)
- “Putting Entrepreneurship Back in the Theory of the Firm” Nicolai Foss (Copenhagen Business School) and Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri)
- “Kirznerian and Lachmannian Entrepreneurship: Coordinating the Product and Financial-Asset Markets” J. Stuart Wood (Loyola University, New Orleans)
B. Austrian School History. Chair: Shawn Ritenour (Grove City College)
- “Richard Cantillon: The Discover of Opportunity Cost” Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)
- “1922: The Watershed Year For Mises and Hayek Theory of Society” Shigeki Tomo (Kyoto-Sangyo University)
- “Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk’s Place in the Development of Austrian Economics” Joseph Salerno (Pace University)
- “Keynes, Hazlitt, and Managed Currency” Jude Blanchette (Foundation for Economic Education)
C. Political Philosophy and Libertarianism. Chair: Jeffrey M. Herbener (Grove City College)
- “Against the Red Moloch: Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Liberalism” Myles Kantor (Pureplay Press.)
- “Liberty and Morality” Tibor Machan (Chapman University)
- “The Classical Liberal Doctrine of States Rights” Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College, Maryland)
- Commentator: David Gordon (Mises Review)
3:00-4:30pm SESSIONS
A. Business Economics. Chair: William L. Anderson (Frostburg State University)
- “The Effect of Antitrust Laws on the Growth of the Newspaper Industry” William L. Anderson (Frostburg State University) and Amit Shah (Frostburg State University)
- “Profit Management, Easement Costs, and Price Discrepancies” Joseph Calandro, Jr. (University of Connecticut)
- “Matchstick Man: The Business Empire of Ivar Kreuger” Jeff Scott and Sven Thommesen (Auburn University)
B. Economies of Development and Transition. Chair: Jörg Guido Hülsmann
- “Vietnam in Transition: Lange or Mises?” Manh Cuong Nguyen
- “Economic Theory of Sustainability: Its Foundational Errors and a Restatement of Valid Principles” John Brätland(US Department of the Interior)
- “Isabel Paterson and the Development of Free Nations” Richard O. Hammer (Free Nation Foundation)
- “Iraq as a Battlefield of Ideas: A Response to Naomi Klein” John Passalaqua(University of Illinois at Chicago)
C. What Have We Learned from Empirical Measures of Economic Freedom? Chair: Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College, Maryland)
- “Introduction to Economic Freedom of the World,” James Gwartney (Florida State University)
- “Methodology and Data: Empirical Findings” Robert A. Lawson (Capital University)
- “Response to Paul Crag Roberts’ Criticisms of Empirical Measures of Economic Freedom” Walter Block (Loyola University)
5:00-6:00pm Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: RICHARD EBELING (Foundation for Economic Education): “Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom”
6:00pm Reception
6:45pm Piano concert and Mises-Kreis Lieder: Songs from the interwar Mises Circle, in new English translations, presented for the first time this evening and sung by Mises Institute staff and attendees of the ASC.
6:30-8:00pm Shuttles from Mises to AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn every half hour
SATURDAY March 20
8:00 and 8:15am Shuttle from AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn to Mises
8:30-9:15am: Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics: Thomas Woods (Suffolk Community College): “The Trouble with Catholic Social Teaching”
9:30-11:00am SESSIONS
A. Austrian Evaluations of Coasian Economics. Chair: Walter Block (Loyola University New Orleans)
- “Coase and the Theory of the Firm” Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri)
- “Coase and Social Costs” Roy Cordato (John Locke Foundation)
- “Coase on the Lighthouse” Walter Block (Loyola University New Orleans)
- “Coase, Crime, and Law” Larent Carnis
B. Studies on Religion. Chair: Shawn Ritenour (Grove City College)
- “Mises on Religion” Laurence Vance (Pensacola Bible Institute)
- “Calvinism Meets Austrian Economics: The Work of Frederick Nymeyer” Timothy Terrell (Wofford College)
- “Money and Banking in Catholic Social Doctrine” Jorg Guido Hulsmann (Mises Institute)
- Commentator: David Gordon (Mises Review)
C. Liberty, Finance, and Banking. Chair: William L. Anderson (Frostburg State University)
- Libertarian Contract Theory and Fractional Reserve Banking” Jan Havel (University of Economics, Prague)
- “Credit Card Companies as Private Producers of Justice” JH Huebert (University of Chicago)
- “The Fed on the Austrians: From its Founding to the Present“ Greg Kaza (Arkansas Policy Foundation)
- “Were the Socialists Really Wrong about Capital Goods?“ Doug MacKenzie (Ramapo College)
11:15am-12:15pm F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture: TOBY BAXENDALE (London): “Law v. Legislation: A Hayekian Entrepreneur in London”
12:15-1:00: Lunch on your own
12:15pm Shuttle from Mises to AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn
12:45pm Shuttle from AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn to Mises
1:00-2:30pm SESSIONS
A. World War I: The Other War that Never Ends. Chair: Richard Ebeling (FEE)
- “World War I: The Recent Literature” Ralph Raico (SUNY College, Buffalo)
- “The Political Ideas Behind World War I” Joseph Stromberg (Mises Institute)
- “The War for Democracy that Never Ends” Paul Gottfried (Elizabethtown College)
- “Merchants of Death Revisted: Armaments, Bankers, and the First World War” Hunt Tooley (Austin College)
B. Economic History. Chair: Jeffrey M. Herbener (Grove City College)
- “The Clearinghouse Role of the Suffolk Bank” Karen Palasek (Peace College)
- “Free Banking in Sweden, 1830-1903: Experience and Debate” Erik Lakomaa (Stockholm School of Economics)
- “The Sherman Act: Fabrication of a Predator” Erich Mattei (Loyola University of New Orleans)
- “The Interpretation of the Causes of the Black Death in History Survey Texts” Frank Williams (Reinhardt College)
3:00-4:30pm SESSIONS
A. Knowledge, Property, and Society. Chair: Jeffrey M. Herbener (Grove City College)
- “The Use of Knowledge about Society: The Wittman/Stigler Claims about Democratic Efficiency” Doug MacKenzie (Ramapo College)
- “Government Theft: The Taking of Private Property to Benefit the Favored Few” Roy Whitehead (University of Central Arkansas) and Walter Block (Loyola University New Orleans)
- “The Growth of Knowledge in Society” Randall Holcombe (Florida State University)
B. The Size and Scope of Government. Chair: Mark Brandly (Ferris State University)
- “Subsidiarity versus Federalism: The Incorporation of International Standards Into the American Rule of Law” Marshall DeRosa (Florida Atlantic University)
- “Harm Reduction and Sin Taxes: Why Gary Becker is Wrong” Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)
- “Taxes, comparative advantages and the division of labor” Richard Johnsson (Ratio Institute)
- “Colorado and the ‘Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights’: Political and Economic Effects of Tax Limitation Measures in State Constitutions“ Derek M. Johnson and Ryan W. McMaken (University of Colorado, Denver)
4:30 and 4:45pm Shuttles from Mises to AU Hotel/Heart of Auburn
6:00pm Reception at Dixon Conference Center of Auburn University Hotel
7:00pm Dinner: Awarding of the O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship
Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture: JOSEPH STROMBERG (Mises Institute): “Rothbard’s Systematic Defense of Liberty”
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