Austrian Scholars Conference 9

THURSDAY March 13 

40th Anniversary Symposium in Honor of  Murray N. Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State.

• 9:00am Peter Boettke: Rothbard on Socialism in the US and in the Soviet Union                           
• 9:30am Laurent Carnis: Rothbard on the Economics of Crime                           
• 10:00am David Gordon: Mises’s Criticisms of Rothbard on Natural Law                                                
• 10:30am Break                            
• 11:00am Alexandre Padilla: Rothbard on Agency Problems                          
• 11:30am Joseph Salerno: Rothbard on Money

12:00pm Reception

1:00-2:45pm FORUM  New books.

• Man, Economy, and State/Power and Market: The Scholars Edition (Auburn: Mises Institute, 2003) by Murray N. Rothbard, with introduction by Joseph Stromberg                                     
• Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles (Auburn: Mises Institute, 2003) by Jesus Huerta de Soto. Presentation by Nikolay Gertchev                                 
• Epistemological Problems of Economics (Auburn: Mises Institute, 2003) by Ludwig von Mises, with an introduction by Jorg Guido Hulsmann                                    
• In Defense of Logic by Steven Yates (currently under consideration)                                   
• The Western Front: Battleground and Home Front in the First World War (Palgrave/Macmillan. 2002) by Hunt Tooley

3:00-4:30: SESSIONS 

• Optimal Monetary Policy. Chairman: Guido Hülsmann.
  • “The Optimal Quantity of Money” Guido Hülsmann (Mises Institute)    
  • “Optimal Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective” Guido Zimmermann (DekaBank, Frankfurt)  
  • “Let’s Replace the Fed with Competitive Money” George Trivoli (Jacksonville State University)      
  • “Comment” Jeffrey Herbener (Grove City College) 
  •  ”Comment” Joseph Salerno (Pace University)
• Sociology and History: Chairman: William P. Anderson.
•  ”Mary Wollstonecraft’s Late Critique of the French Revolution: Against Fatal Presumption” Roberta Modugno (University of Roma 3)                                  
• “Property Rights and Time Preference“ by Robert Mulligan (Western Carolina University College of Business)                                   
• “The Theory of Adolescence and the Rise of State Interventionism in Late Nineteenth Century America” David Alan Black (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary)                                  
•  ”The Human Causes of the Black Death” Frank Williams (Reinhardt College) 

5:00-6:00 The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture: Gene Callahan (Economics for Real People): “The Road to Liberty“

6:00 Reception 

FRIDAY March 14 

8:30-10:00m SESSIONS

• The Structure of Government. Chairman:  Natalie Janson.
  • “Federalism and Economic Freedom” Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College)    
  • “Financial Privacy and Individual Liberty“ David R. Burton (Argus Group)  
  • “Democratization or Liberty“ Adam Lowther (University of Alabama)   
  • “Property and Liberty: the Foundation of Edmund Burke’s Political Economy. Joseph Pappin III (University of South Carolina) 
• Austrian Economics, Marketing, and Resource-Advantage Theory. Chairman: Walter Block. 
• “Competition as a Process and Antitrust Policy” Dennis Arnett (Texas Tech University )    
• Jerry Goolsby (Loyola University)     
• Stuart Wood  (Loyola University)   
• Walter Block (Loyola University) 
• Tony Deden  (Sage Capital)                
• Sean Corrigan  (Capital Insight)                
• Jeff Scott    (Wells Fargo)                
• Antony Mueller (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 
• Cycles, Panics, and Crashes.   Chairman: Jeff Scott.  

10:15-11:45am SESSIONS 

• The Austrian Tradition. Chairman: Joseph Salerno.
  • “Some Aspects and Applications of Boehm-Bawerk’s Distinctive Approach to Demand and Supply“ George Reisman (Pepperdine University)      
  • “Menger, Maslow, and the Hierarchy of Needs” Scott Kjar (Middle Georgia College)     
  • “The Development of Austrian Monopoly Theory: From Menger to Mund” Joseph T. Salerno (Pace University) 
• Praxeology, Ethics, and Social Theory. Chairman: Jeffrey Herbener.  
• “On Christianity and the Ethical Critique of Austrian Economics”Shawn R. Ritenour (Grove City College)                                  
• “Acquiescence is not Inevitable: Mises Versus Weber on Bureaucracy“ William P. Anderson (Grove City College)                                  
• “A Praxeological Defense of the Market: Welfare Theory or the Common Good” Jeffrey M. Herbener (Grove City College)                                  
• “Binary Economics: Paradigm Shift or Cluster of Errors?”Timothy Terrell (Wofford College)

12:00 Luncheon

1:00-2:30pm SESSIONS    

• The War Economy. Chairman: Peter Klein.
  • “William Tecumseh Sherman’s War and the Brutality of the Twentieth Century” Hunt Tooley (Austin College)                             
  • “Military Spending and Corporate Structure: Lessons from the Vietnam War” Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri)                                  
  • “Wartime Socialization of Investment: A Reassesment of U.S. Capital Formation in the 1940s“ Robert Higgs (Independent Institute) 
• Austrians in Academia. Chairman: Mark Thornton.
• “The Market for Academic Research” Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)                            
• “An Austrian View of the Circular Flow Model Incorporating the Entrepreneur“ Barry Simpson (Auburn University) and Scott Kjar (Central Georgia College)                          
• “Richard T. Ely and the Historical School: The Takeover of a Profession” Gary M. Pecquet (Loyola University, New Orleans) 

3:00-4:30pm SESSIONS 

• American History. Chairman: Thomas DiLorenzo.
  • “Northern Black Codes: Were They Effective?”  William Art Carden (Washington University, St. Louis)    
  • “Rothbardian Power Elite Analysis of Modern American History“ James Dunlap III (Limestone College)    
  • “Between Bastiat and the Bullwhip: The Ambivalent Liberalism of Louisa McCord” Myles Kantor (Frontpagemag.com)    
• Economics and Philosophy:  Andre Andrade. Meeting Room C   
• “Hoppeing Onto New Ground: A Rothbardian Proposal for Thomistic Natural Law as the Basis for Hoppe’s Praxeological Defense of Private Property” Jude Chua Soon Meng (National University of Singapore)     
• “What Austrian Scholars Should Know About Logic (And Why).”  Steven Yates (Mises Institute) 
• “R.G. Collingwood: Historicist or Praxeologist?”  Roderick T. Long (Auburn University) .      
• Rothbardian Ethics: An Exposition” Andre Andrade (Atlas Foundation and CAPES)
• “Money: Capital Good, Consumers’ Good, or (Media of) Exchange Good?” William Barnett (Loyola University, New Orleans). Commentator: Stuart Wood                                  
• “Terrorism, Environmentalism, Oil, and Economics“ Mike Saliba (Loyola University, New Orleans). Commentator: Kirsten Daniel, Jim Viator                                  
• “TBA” Kirsten Daniel (Loyola University, New Orleans). Commentator: Jerry Dauterive
• Austrian Economics at Loyola, Part I. Chairman: Walter Block.

5:00-6:00pm

• Kurzweg Family Prize Awarded                      
•  Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: John P. Cochran (Metropolitan State College of Denver) : “Capital, Monetary Calculation, and the Trade Cycle: The Importance of Sound Money“

6:00pm Reception 

7:45pm Piano Concert (Barbara Acker-Mills: Bach’s Prelude and fugue in Bb major; Bach’s Prelude and fugue in F major; Haydn’s Sonata in C major; Chopin’s Ballade in G minor; Chopin’s Scherzo in B flat minor; Prokoviev’s Sonata in A minor) followed by Mises-Kreis Lieder

SATURDAY March 15 

8:30-9:15am: Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics: Timothy Terrell (Wofford College) : “What the Evangelical Environmentalists Don’t Consider about Economics“

9:30-11:00am SESSIONS 

• Transition Economics. Chairman:  Paul Cwik.
  • “The Importance of Self-Governance for Transition Economies.” Peter J. Boettke (George Mason University) and Edward Stringham (San Jose State University)   
  • “An Austrian Economics Perspective of the Privatization of the Steel Industry in Post-Communist Romania” Peter Calcagno (Wingate University) and Marius Dan (Wingate University)  
  • “Trading Off State Patronage for Free Markets: African Perspectives on Economic Transition” Kalonga Stambuli (Surrey Institute, UK)   
  • “An Austrian Theory of Economic Transitions” Yuri N. Maltsev (Carthage College)
• Austrian Economics at Loyola Part 2. Chairman: Walter Block. 
• “Heterogeneous Expectations and Security Price Distributions.” Stuart Wood (Loyola University, New Orleans) Commentator: William Barnett                      
• “Role for Government?” by Nick Capaldi (Loyola University, New Orleans). Commentator: Mike Saliba     
• “The Fall and Rise of the Iron Law of Wages” Walter Block and Jerry Dauterive (Loyola University, New Orleans). Commentator: Nick Capaldi      
• “Murray Rothbard, the Cold War, and the ‘Paleo’ Antiwar Movement: A Brief Intellectual History” Ryan McMaken ( University of Colorado, Denver)                               
• “The Use and Abuse of the Just War Tradition: American Conservative Thought: 1950-2002” Joseph Stromberg (Mises Institute)                               
• Commentator: Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (Mises Institute)
• The Ideology of War. Chairman: Hunt Tooley.

11:15-12:15am F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture: Sudha Shenoy (The University of Newcastle) : “An Auxiliary for Historians: The Contribution of the Older Austrians”

12:15pm: Luncheon 

1:00-2:30pm SESSIONS 

• Recent Financial History. Chairman: Sean Corrigan.
  • “U.S. Government Economic Statistics and the U.S. Economy, 1978-2001“ Greg Kaza (Arkansas Policy Foundation) 
  • “A Retrospective Look at the Leveraged Buyout Phenomenon and its Implications for Modern Corporate Governance” John L. Chapman (University of Georgia) 
  • “The U.S. Economy as an Case Study in Credit Expansion: 1990-2003” Sean Corrigan (Capital Insight)   
  • “From the Gold Standard to the Credit Bubble: Gold’s Evolution as a Store of Value.”  Leanne Baker (San Francisco, California) 
• Austrian Business Economics. Chairman: Alexander Padilla.  
• “Profit Maximizing Versus Revenue Maximizing Firms? Only Time Will Tell” William Anderson (Frostburg State University)                  
• “The Praxeological Foundations of the Employment Compact” Patrick Gunning (Feng Chia University)                   
• “The Development of Electronic Money: Toward the Emergence of Free Banking?” Nathalie Janson, (ESC Rouen, France)                
• “State Economic Development Planning: An Austrian Critique and Case Study” Benjamin Powell (George Mason University)                  
• “On the Practice of International Trade,” John Robert Subrick (George Mason University) 

3:00-4:30pm SESSIONS  

• The Theory of Business Cycles. Chairman: John Cochran.
  • “Theory and History: What does Austrian Business Cycle Theory Have to Say about the ‘Bust’“ John Cochran    
  • “Reflexivity, Business Cycles, and the New Economy“ Joseph Calandro, Jr. (General Star Management Company, Berkshire Hathaway)  
  • “William Graham Sumner on the 19th Century Business Cycle” Scott Trask (Mises Institute) 
• Issues in Environmental Economics. Chairman: William L. Anderson.
• “An Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics“ Roy Cordato (John Locke Foundation)                                  
• “A Critique of the Neoclassical View on Non-Renewable Resources” Mark Brandly (Patrick Henry College)                                                  
• “Why Externalities Are Not a Case of Market Failure“ Brian Simpson (National University in San Diego) 

5:00-6:00pm

• Fertig Prize Awarded                                
• Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture: Butler Shaffer (Southwestern University School of Law): “A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit: The Luddites Revisited“

Reception and Dinner: Barbecue, with music provided by Fred Lord (violin and fiddle), Cathy Love (piano concertina), and Scott Hanson (Double Bass).