Austrian Scholars Conference

Is anybody here interested in this next week?

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March 13-15, 2008
Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama
Preliminary Schedule
THURSDAY, March 13
9:00 am Shuttle from Hilton Garden Inn to AU Hotel
10:00am Shuttle from AU Hotel and Tiger Suites to Mises Institute
10:30-12:30am Authors Forum
? "My Book on Mises" Jorg Guido Hulsmann (University of Paris)
? "My Anarchist Anthology" Roderick Long (Auburn University)
? "33 Questions on American History" Thomas Woods (Mises Institute)
? "Christianity and War" Laurence Vance (Wayland Institute)
12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own
2:00-3:00pm Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics: Laurence Vance
"The Myth of the Just Price"
3:30-4:45: SESSIONS
Economics and Society
? Chair: Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)
? "On the Nature of Human Rationality" Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Vienna, Austria)
? "Immanent Politics, Participatory Democracy, and the Pursuit of Eudaimonia" Geoffrey
Allan Plauche (Louisiana State University)
? "Neo-Institutional Economics: Theory and Applications" Piet de Vries (University of
Twente, The Netherlands)
? Commentator: David Gordon (Mises Institute)
5:00-6:00 p.m. Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture: Stephan Kinsella
"Rethinking IP Completely"
6:00-7:00: Reception
7:00 p.m. Shuttle from Mises Institute to AU Hotel and Tiger Suites
Dinner on your own.

CONT.

FRIDAY, March 14
8:00am Shuttle from AU Hotel and Tiger Suites to Mises Institute
8:00am Coffee and Juice
8:30-10:00am SESSIONS
A. Entrepreneurship
? "The Place of Austrian Economics in Entrepreneurship Research" Peter G. Klein,
(University of Missouri)
? "Product Differentiation and Economic Progress" Randall Holcombe (Florida State
University)
? "A Tri-Level Framework for Analyzing and Quantifying Unsystematic Risk" Warren
Miller (Beckmill Research)
? "The Corporate State and Civil Society in Russia" Yuri Maltsev (Carthage College)
B. Monetary Economics and the Business Cycle
? "Clash of the Titans: The Bastiat-Proudhon Debate on Credit and Interest." Roderick
Long (Auburn University)
? "On Hayekian Triangles" William Barnett and Walter Block (Loyola University, New
Orleans)
? "Time Preference and Investment Expenditure" Jorg Guido Hulsmann (University of
Angers)
10:15-11:45am SESSIONS
A. Environmental Economics
? Chair: Mark Brandly (Ferris State University)
? "Can Government Solves the Problem of Transportation Pollution" Norman Horn
(University of Texas, Austin)
? "In Defense of Extreme Skepticism: A Case Against Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth"
Matthew Mueller (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
? "Does Global Warming Warrant Government Intervention?" Joshua R. Hendrickson
(Wayne State University)
? Discussant: N. Joseph Potts
B. Market Analysis. Chair: Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)
? "Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: The Crisis of 2007 through the Eyes of Financial Market
Economists" Jeffrey Cleveland (Los Angeles, CA) and Antero Atilla (Copenhagen,
Denmark)
? "Freedom versus Efficiency" Martin Fridson (author)
11:45am - 1:00pm Lunch on your own
1:00-2:30pm SESSIONS
A. The Provision of Security
? "Empirical Studies in Private Defense: A Patrol Study for the SPR Business Model" Gil
Guillory (Independent Scholar) and Tony Skinner (Ultra-Protection, Inc.)
? "Law of the Rum-Runners: Self-Enforcement Mechanisms Given Weak Focal Points"
Nicholas A. Snow (George Mason University)
? "The Role of Subscription-based Patrol and Restitution in the Future of Liberty" Gil
Guillory (Independent Scholar), Patrick Tinsley (Independent Scholar), and Max Chiz
(Tulane University Law School)
? "The Louisiana Supreme Court in Question: An Empirical and Statistical Study of the
Effect of Campaign Money on the Judicial Function" John Levendis (Loyola University,
New Orleans)
B. The Public Sector
? "The Simple Analytics of an Excise Tax" Mark Brandly (Ferris State University)
? "New Perspectives on the Economic Approach to Bureaucracy" Laurent Carnis (French
National Institute for Transport and Safety Research)
? "In Defense of Rothbardian Welfare Economics" Jeffrey Herbener (Grove City College)
? "The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb: Truman's True Intensions" Dominick Severance
(Christendom College)
? Comments: J.H. Huebert
3:00-4:30pm SESSIONS
A. Sociology of Social Change
? "If Anarcho-Capitalism is So Good, Why Doesn't it Exist? Incentives versus Preferences
in Social Change" Edward Stringham (San Jose State University)
? "The Hayekian Blogosphere: A Case Study" William Anderson (Frostburg State
University)
? "Establishing a Moral Duty to Obey the Law Through a Jurisprudence of Law and
Economics" Dave Bear (Assistant State Attorney, Orlando, Florida)
? "The Sensory Order's Operational Model of Epistemology: From Subjective Perception
to Objective Reality" Robert F. Mulligan (Western Carolina University)
B. Topics in Intellectual Property Rights and Legal Order
? "Private IP Law Created and Enforced by Contract" Richard O. Hammer (Hillsborough,
N.C.)
? "Is there Room for Intellectual Property Rights in Austrian Economics?" Paul Cwik
(Mount Olive College)
? "Taking a Stab at Anarchy" John Sebastian Quick (University of Texas, Dallas)
? Comments: Stephan Kinsella
5:00-6:00 p.m. Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture: Martin Fridson
"A Chronicle of Limitless Failures of Government"
6:00pm Reception
7:30pm Express-85 Shuttle from Mises Institute to AU Hotel and Tiger Suites
SATURDAY, March 15
9:00am Express-85 Shuttle from AU Hotel and Tiger Suites to Mises Institute
9:00am Coffee and Juice
9:30-11:00am SESSIONS
A. History of the Austrian School
? "Cantillon the Anti-Mercantilist" Mark Thornton (Mises Institute)
? "John Bates Clark, Socialism and Labour" Fred Day (Manchester Metropolitan
University)
? "Interpretive Flux: A Subjectivist Attack on the Practice of History" Matthew Mueller
(University of Missouri at St. Louis)
? "Menger on Value Theory" Scott Kjar (Loyola University)
B. Method and Politics
? Shawn Ritenour (Grove City College)
? "Antonio Rosmini's Proto-Austrian Elements as Found in The Constitution Under Social
Justice" Joseph A. Weglarz (University of Detroit, Mercy)
? "Mises and Popper on Epistemology" Francesco Di Iorio (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
? "The Republic of Science" Koen Swinkels, University of Amsterdam
? "Starting Over: the Rebuilding of Catholic Social Teaching on Economics" William
Luckey (Christendom College).
11:15-12:15 F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture: Lorenzo Infantino
"Hayek Speaks to Europe"
12:15-1:30: Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00pm SESSIONS
A. The Transition to Sound Money
? Larry Sechrest (Sul Ross University)
? William Barnett (Loyola University, New Orleans)
? J. Bradley Jansen (Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights)
? Joseph Salerno (Pace University)
B. Seminar on Catholic Social Doctrine
? Chair: Joseph Keckeissen (Universidad Francisco Marroquin)
? "Acceptable and Unacceptable Criteria Regarding Themes of Social Doctrine" Armando
de La Torre (Universidad Francisco Marroquin)
? "Equilibrium Between Individual Liberty and Government Power, as Seen in the Case
Against Juan de Mariana" Gabriel Calzada (Instituto Juan de Mariana)
? "The Common Good from a Christian Point of View" Roberto Blum (Universidad
Francisco Marroquin)
? "Defense of Those Social Norms that Protect Authentic Human Dignity" Juan Jose
Ramirez (Universidad Francisco Marroquin)
? Commentator: Thomas E. Woods
3:15-4:45pm SESSIONS
A. Applied Economics
? "A History of the Common Agriculture Policy" Francois Facchini (Universite de Reims,
Sorbonne)
? "Birth of the Keynesian Curse: Hamilton on Public Debt" Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola
University)
? "Auctions of Capital Goods: Entrepreneurial Plans and Inferences of the Winner's Curse"
John Bratland (Department of the Interior)
? "The Finance of Katrina" J. Stuart Wood (Loyola University, New Orleans)
B. Career Challenges for Austro-Libertarians. Chair: Walter Block
? "The Challenges of Graduate Education" Vedran Vuk (George Mason University)
? "To be Announced" William Anderson Frostburg University
? "My Weird Career: An Object Lesson" Walter Block (Loyola University, New Orleans)
? "Reconciling Libertarianism and Being a Prosecutor" Dave Bear (State Attorney,
Orlando, Florida)
5:00 pm Awarding of the O.P. Alford Prize
5:10pm The Mises Memorial Lecture: Larry Sechrest
"The Anti-Capitalists: Barbarians at the Gate"
6:10-7:30pm Reception
7:30pm Shuttle from Mises Institute to AU Hotel and Tiger Suites