The schedule of the Austrian Scholars Conference 10, March 18-20, 2004, Auburn, Alabama, is nearly complete, with more papers and sessions than ever before. If you have never attended before, this would be an excellent year to begin what will surely become an annual trip. Email me with any changes that needed to be made. You can register here, or write Pat with any questions.
Here is the Schedule as it presently stands:
THURSDAY March 18
9:00-11:30 Book Signing and Discussion
Tom DiLorenzo: How Capitalism Save 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 Holcome: From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Democracy
11:30-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-2:45pm Forum: “Free Trade: The Current Debate” with Paul Craig Roberts and commentators.
3:00-4:30: SESSIONS
A. Capital Markets, Real Estate, and Housing
Moderator: Jeff Scott(Wells Fargo)
Kevin Duffy(Bearing Asset Management)
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)
B. Law and Economics
“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)
5:00-6:00 The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture: SEAN CORRIGAN (Capital Insight): “Theory Meets Praxis: The Austrian Business Cycle Theory in Today’s Economy”
6:00-7:00: Reception
FRIDAY March 19
8:30-10:00am SESSIONS
A. Philosophy and Society
“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)
“Methodology in the Age of Empire” Steven Yates (Mises Institute)
Commentator: David Gordon (Mises Review)
B. Business Cycle Theory
“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)
C. Science and Markets (Chair: William Anderson)
“The Entrepreneurial Character of Science” Allan Walstad (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown)
“Science (and Market) as an Adaptive Process” Thomas McQuade (New York University)
Commentator
10:15-11:45am SESSIONS
A. Capital Markets
“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
“Robert Lewis Dabney and the Case for ‘Trickle-Down’ Education” Barry Simpson (University of South Alabama)
“Home Schooling as Radical Privatization” Mark Brandly (Ferris State University)
“Extramural Education, An Interim Plan: From State Schooling to Free-Market Alternatives” Linda Schrock Taylor (The Learning Clinic)
C. Deflation in Theory and Policy. Chair: Jörg Guido Hülsmann
“Optimal Monetary Policy” Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Mises Institute)
“Apoplithorismosphobia” Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)
“TBA” William Barnett (Loyola University New Orleans)
11:45-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-2:30pm SESSIONS
A. Pricing, Management, Entrepreneurship
“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 Jason Hilsman (Metropolitan State College, Denver)
“Putting Entrepreneurship Back in the Theory of the Firm” Nicolai Foss (Coppenhagen 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
“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 (Baltimore, Maryland)
C. Political Philosophy and Libertarianism
“Against the Red Moloch: Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Liberalism” Myles Kantor (Boynton Beach, Fl.)
“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
“The Effect of Antitrust Laws on the Growth of the Newspaper Industry” William Anderson (Frostburg State University) and Amit Shah (Frostburg State University)
“Profit Management, Easement Costs, and Price Discrepancies” Joseph Calandro, Jr. (University of Connecticut)
“The Tao of UAWism: A Brief History of Political Coercion, Corruption, and Collectivist Nonsense” Karen De Coster (Mackinac Institute)
“Matchstick Man: The Business Empire of Ivar Kreuger” Jeff Scott and Sven Thommesen (Auburn University)
B. Economies of Development and Transition
“Vietnam in Transition: Lange or Mises?” Manh Cuong Nguyen
“Economic Theory of Sustainability: Its Foudnational 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?
James Gwartney (Florida State University)
Robert A. Lawson (Capital University)
Walter Block (Loyola University)
5:00-6:00pm Kurzweg Family Prize and Alford Prize for Libertarian Scholarship
Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: RICHARD EBELING (Foundation for Economic Education): “Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom”
6:00pm Reception
7:00:pm Piano concert and Mises-Kreis Lieder: Songs from the interwar Mises Circle, in spectacular and new English translations, presented for the first time this evening and sung by Mises Institute staff and attendees of the ASC10.
SATURDAY March 20
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
“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
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)
11:15-12:15am F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture: TOBY BAXENDALE (London): “Law v. Legislation: A Hayekian Entrepreneur in London”
12:15-1:00: Lunch on your own
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)
“TBA” Hunt Tooley (Austin College)
B. Economic History
“The Clearinghouse Role of the Suffolk Bank” Karen Palasek (North Carolina Educational Alliance)
“Free Banking in Sweden, 1830-1903: Experience and Debate” Erik Lakonaa (Stockholm School of Economics)
“The Sherman Act: Fabrication of a Predator” Erich Mattei (Loyola University of New Orleans)
Commentator: Kirsten Daniel (Loyola University New Orleans)
3:00-4:30pm SESSIONS
A. Knowledge, Property, and Society
“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)
“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)
6:00pm Reception at Dixon Conference Center of Auburn University Hotel
7:00pm Dinner: Alford Prize Awarded
Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture: JOSEPH STROMBERG (Mises Institute): “Rothbard’s Systematic Defense of Liberty”
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