Austrian Scholars Conference 9

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MEMORIAL LECTURES

Mises Memorial Lecture

JOHN P. COCHRAN, Professor of Economics, Metropolitan State College of Denver

“Capital Monetary Calculation, and the Trade Cycle: The Importance of Sound Money”

Rothbard Memorial Lecture

BUTLER SHAFFER, Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law

“A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit: The Luddites Revisited”

Hazlitt Memorial Lecture

GENE CALLAHAN, Author, Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School

“The Road to Liberty”

Hayek Memorial Lecture

SUDHA SHENOY, Lecturer, School of Policy, The University of Newcastle

“An Auxiliary for Historians: The Contribution of the Older Austrians”

SCHEDULE

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.
  • 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 

5:00-6:00pm

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.
  • 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  

5:00-6:00pm

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

 

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