Austrian Scholars Conference 8

Pre-Conference Discussion on New Books

• Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College): The Real Lincoln: a New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and Unnecessary War (Prima Publishing, 2002)
• Roger Garrison (Auburn University) : Time and Money: Macroeconomics of Capital Structure (Routledge, 2000)
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): Democracy: The God that Failed (Transaction Publishers, 2001)

Morning Seminar:  "Defending the Undefendable": Walter Block (Loyola University) in session with students from Georgia College & State University

Welcoming Remarks: Jeffrey Herbener (Grove City College)

Named Lectures

• F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture: Ronald Hamowy (University of Alberta): "Hayek and the Common Law: An Assessment" 
• Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture:  Paul Cantor (University of Virginia): "Austrian Economics and Literary Criticism"
• Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture: Walter Block (Loyola University, New Orleans): "Plumb Line Libertarianism"  
• Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture: James Bovard (Baltimore, Maryland): "Bush, Terrorism, and Freedom"

Panels

• The Warfare State
  • Chairman: Mark Thornton (Columbus State University)   
  • "The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and Its Aftermath" Yuri N. Maltsev (Carthage College)  
  • "Can Free Trade Really Prevent War?" Richard Ebeling (Hillsdale College) 
  • "Democracy and War" James Ostrowski (Buffalo, New York)          
  • "Mises on the Vengeful State"  Joseph Stromberg  (Mises Institute) 
• Capital Markets in Crisis
  • Chairman: Jeff Scott (Wells Fargo)                                                  
  • panelist: Tony Deden (Sage Capital)                         
  • panelist Antony P. Mueller (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

Sessions

Austrian Microeconomics

• Chairman: Christopher Westley (Jacksonville State University)                              
• "Resource-Advantage Theory and Austrian Economics: Toward an Austrian Theory of Competition?" Shelby D. Hunt (Texas Tech University)   
• "Menger, Dupuit, and the Characteristics of Goods"  Scott Kjar (Auburn University)   
• "Competition, Cooperation, and the Dilemma of Knowledge" Doug W. MacKenzie (George Mason University)  
• "Galileo and Adam Smith on Value Theory" Mark Thornton (Columbus State University)

Explorations in the Public Choice Theory of Government

• Chairman: Edward Stringham (George Mason University)              
• "Regulation, More Regulation, Partial Deregulation, and Reregulation: The Disequilibrating Nature of a Rent-Seeking Society" Bruce Benson  (Florida State University)    
• "Tullock and The Edge of the Jungle" Christopher Coyne (GMU)   
• "Winston Bush on Individual Welfare In Anarchy" Jason Osborne (GMU)  

Libertarian Theory and History

• Chairman: Hans-Hermann Hoppe (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)                      
• "Murray N. Rothbard's Copperhead Abolitionism" Myles Kantor (Center for Free Emigration)    
• "Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism" Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)   
• "The Establishment of the Consulate in a Medieval French Town"  Frank Williams (Reinhardt College)   
• "Against Utilitarianism; or, Why Not Violate Rights if it'd Do Good"  Tibor Machan (Chapman University) 

Banking and Business Cycles

• Chairman: John Cochran (Metropolitan State College of Denver)  
• "The Current Recession Viewed from Inside the Beltway" Morgan Reynolds (Texas A&M University; Chief Economist, Department of Labor)   
• "The Austrian Business Cycles: Variations on a Theme" John Cochran, Steve Call, and Fred R. Glahe (Metropolitan State College of Denver)    
• "The Recession of 2001-02 In Light Of The Misesian Theory Of The Business Cycle" Greg Kaza, (Arkansas Policy Forum)    
• "Forced Saving and Overconsumption in the Boom-Bust Cycle" Roger Garrison (Auburn University) 

Austrian Critiques of Neoclassical Economics

• Chairman: Walter Block (Loyola University New Orleans)                       
• "Heterogeneous Expectations" Stuart Wood (Loyola University New Orleans)                       
• "Neoclassical Theory and the Inconsistent Application of Subjectivism." Mike Saliba and William Barnett (Loyola University New Orleans)  
• "Austrian Business Cycle Theory in the Current Recession" William Barnett and Stuart Wood (Loyola University New Orleans)   
• "Education and Bureaucracy: A Misesian Approach" Jerry Goolsby and Walter Block (Loyola University New Orleans)  
• Commentators: Jerry Dauterive, Walter Block, Kirsten Daniel

The Theory of Interventionism

• Chairman: William Anderson (Frostburg State University)                            
• "The New Urbanism Versus the Market Process" Randall Holcombe (Florida State University)   
• "Predatory Pricing Theory and the Neoclassical Model: Pounding Square Pegs into Round Holes" William Anderson (Frostburg State University)  
• "The Impact of the Tax System on the Structure of Production" David R. Burton (The Argus Group)   
• "An Entrepreneurial Critique of the Optimization Paradigm"[Slide Presentation] Robert F. Mulligan (Western Carolina University College of Business and the State University of New York at Binghamton)  
• Commentator: Sanford Ikeda (SUNY, Purchase)

American Economic and Political History

• Chairman: Carey Roberts (Arkansas Tech University)                                                   
• "The Independent Treasury, 1846-1861: Its Origins and Record" Scott Trask (Mises Institute)    
• "The Coming Bankruptcy of the Republican School" Marco Bassani (University of Milan)  
• "The Economic Lessons of Tocqueville" André Andrade (Universidade Candido Mendes)   
• "U.S. Social Security as a Civil War Legacy" Dale Steinreich (Southwest Baptist University)

Austrian Monetary Theory and Modern Finance

• Chairman: Paul Cwik (Campbell University)                                                   
• "Does Universal Banking Harm Investors? Evidence from German IPOs" Peter Klein (University of Georgia)  
• "Dollarization and the Globalization Cycle" Anne Rathbone (George Mason University)   
• "'Regulation Failure' in the Capitalization of Banking"  Nathalie Janson (Rouen Graduate Business School)   
• "Can There Ever Be Enough Capital?" William Carden (Washington University-St Louis)

Value Theory

• Chairman: Joseph Salerno (Pace University)                       
• "Böhm-Bawerk on Value, Cost, and Marginal Utilit: Commentary and Translation"  George Reisman (Pepperdine University)  
• "The Meaning of Value" Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Mises Institute)            
• "Economic Value Imperialism" Gloria L. Zúñiga (Acton Institute)

Method, Philosophy, and Politics 

• Chairman: Steven Yates (Mises Institute)                                                   
• "Some Informal Reflections on Human Nature and Two Conditions of Liberty" Steven Yates (Mises Institute)    
• "The Rise of Mathematical Economics in the US"  James Dale Yohe (University of West Florida)  
• "Endogenous Morality" Bruce Benson (Florida State University)   
• "Mancur Olson's Vision of Government and Economic Growth" Robert Higgs (Independent Review) 

The Civil War as Religious and Political Crisis

• Chairman: William P. Anderson (Grove City College)                                                  
• "Dabney Defense of Liberty and Slavery" William P. Anderson (Grove City College)   
• "A House Undivided: Campbell and Lipscomb on Slavery"  Jeffrey Herbener (Grove City College)  
• "Human Slavery and the Baptist Mind"  Shawn Ritenour (Grove City College)

The Development of the Austrian Tradition

• Chairman: Edward Feser (Loyola Marymount University)                                
• "Hayek on Tradition" Edward Feser (Loyola Marymount  University)  
• "Friedrich von Wieser and Friedrich A. Hayek: The General Equilibirum Tradition in Austrian Economics"  Joseph Salerno (Pace University)                 
• "Politics on Economics and Economics on Politics" Dan Stastny (Prague School of Economics)  
• Commentator: David Gordon (The Mises Review)

Applied Austrian Economics

• Chairman: William Anderson (Frostburg State University)                                
• "Air Travel: Another Case of Failed Policy" Paul Cleveland (Birmingham Southern College)  
• "Valuation Under Uncertainty: Foundations of an Austrian Theory of Financial Speculation"  Antony P. Mueller (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)                                                  
• "Renewed Case for Stabilization of Currencies Using World Commodities" Steven Lee Yamshon (Los Angeles, California)

Chicago and the Question of Efficiency

• Chairman: Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College, Baltimore)                                                   
• "Chicago and the Cult of Efficiency"  Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College)                 
• "The Property Economics of Agency Problems"  Alexandre Padilla (George Mason University)      
• "Implications of the Block-Demsetz Debate" Mark Brandly (Patrick Henry College) 

Economics and War

• Chairman: Alexander Moseley (Leicestershire, UK)                                                   
• "Praxeology and War: The Austrian Economists on the Origins of War and Its Effects" Alexander Moseley (Leicestershire, UK)            
• "The Orwellian State System: Big Brother and the Genesis of Perpetual War" Hunt Tooley (Austin College)   
• "The Impossibility of Defense Through Insurance Companies" Gabriel Calzada (University of Madrid)   
• "Politics Before the Crimean War" Robert Blackstock (Auburn University)

Liberty, Tradition, and Faith

• Chairman: Thomas Woods (Suffolk Community College)                                                   
• "Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Law: An Unresolved Tension"  Thomas Woods (Suffolk Community College)   
• "The Place of Laissez-Faire Economics in Edmund Burke's Politics of Order" Joseph Pappin III (University of South Carolina; Edmund Burke Society of America)  
• "Catholic Christianity: For or Against the State"  Don Mathews (Coastal Georgia Community College)   
• Commentator: David Gordon (Mises Institute)