AERC 2023

Registration Begins; Bookstore Open

Welcome Remarks

15 min

Condon Lecture Hall

F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture

60 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Nicholas Eberstadt

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches and writes extensively on demographics and economic development generally, and more specifically on international security in the Korean peninsula and Asia.

Session 1: Authors’ Forum

• Chair: Mark Thornton, Mises Institute
• Luigi Marco Bassani, University of Milan, Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865
• Mark Gober, An End to the Upside Down Reset
• Peter Klein,* Baylor University, and Nicolai Foss, Copenhagen Business School, Why Managers Matter: The Perils of Bossless Organization
• Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute, Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities
• Shawn Ritenour, Mises Institute, The Economics of Prosperity: New Thinking on Economic Growth and Development

90 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Session 2: Economic History

• Chair: Karl-Friedrich Israel, Western Catholic University/Saarland University
• Douglas E. French, Mises Institute, “The Panic of 1857 through the Austrian Lens”
• Patrick Newman, Florida Southern College, “Was There a ‘Long Depression’ or Multiple Depressions in the Post–Civil War Era?”
• Christian D. Tolino, Conshohocken, MD, “Double Entry Bookkeeping and the Industrial Revolution”

90 min

Wolfe Lecture Hall

Session 3: Entrepreneurship

• Chair: Jeffery Herbener, Grove City College
• Tho Bishop, Mises Institute, “The Championship and the Entrepreneur: Sports Economics from an Austrian Perspective”
• Qifan Chen,* University of Nevada, Reno, Mark Packard,* Florida Atlantic University, and Per Bylund, Oklahoma State University, “Power, Prosperity, and Institutional Uncertainty: Lessons from China”
• Hunter Hastings and Mark J. McGrath, Economics for Business podcast, “Toward a Dynamic Value-Centric Definition of Entrepreneurial Orientation”
• Ryan Turnipseed, Oklahoma State University, “The Entrepreneurial Counterrevolution”

90 min

Schlarbaum Seminar Room

Session 4: Applied Economics

• Chair: Timothy Terrell, Wofford College
• Rafael Acevedo,* Creighton University, Pedro Harmath, Jose Mora, and Jorge Romero-Habeych, “USA–Innovation Index: A State-Level Proposal”
• Sam Branthoover, Grove City College, and Benjamin Seevers, Grove City College, “Wealth Destruction in the Scioto Hopewell”
•  Peter Klein,* Baylor University, and Nicolai Foss, Copenhagen Business School, “Why Do Companies Go Woke?”
• Timothy Terrell, “Taking Subjective Value Seriously: Emissions Trading, Emissions Taxes, and Non-coercive Alternatives”

90 min

Archives Conference Room

Lunch

60 min

Hogan Graduation Area

“Whither Goest the Entrepreneur”

The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture

60 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Robert F. Hébert

Robert Hébert is Professor of Economics at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and Russell Foundation Professor Emeritus at Auburn University.

Session 5: History of Economic Thought of the Austrian School

• Chair: Shawn Ritenour, Grove City College
• Pedro Calais,* João Fernando Rossi Mazzoni, Adriano Paranaiba, Mises Brasil, “The Austrian School as a Research Program: What Can Bibliometrics Teach Us?”
• Peter Frank, Grove City College, and Shawn Ritenour,* “Shaping an Austrian Economics Program: The Case of Grove City College”
• Karl-Friedrich Israel, Western Catholic University/Saarland University, “Gottfried von Haberler’s Contributions to the Theory of Index Numbers”
• Paul Schaffenberger, Brooklyn, “Art, Praxeology, and the Evolution of Human Consciousness”

90 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Session 6: Property and Distributive Justice

• Chair: Tate Fegley, Montreat College
• David F. Dieteman, Pennsylvania State University Erie, Behrend College, “Climate Change Hysteria as a Revolt against Nature: Rothbard, Hayek, and the Green Imperative”
• Łukasz Dominiak, Nicolaus Copernicus University, “The Question of Accession: Is There a Fifth Method of Property Acquisition under Libertarianism?”
• Łukasz Dominiak, Nicolaus Copernicus University, and Tate Fegley,*  “Vicarious Liability and Libertarianism”
• David J. Rapp, ISG Business School, and Jeffrey Herbener,* Grove City College, “On the Ethics of Fair Value Accounting: Distributive Effects, Distributive Injustice, and Implications for Social Peace”

90 min

Schlarbaum Seminar Room

Session 7: Kenneth Garschina Graduate Student Essay Competition

• Chair: Dale Steinreich, Drury University
• Robert Aro, Mises Graduate School, “The Instability of Stablecoins”
• Anthony J. Cesario, Loyola University, New Orleans, “Collective Decision-Making Costs in Labor-Managed Firms: A Response to Prychitko (1996)”
• Jeffery L. Degner, Cornerstone University, “Monetary Interventionism’s Role in the ‘Luxurification’ of the Traditional Nuclear Family”
•  João Fernando Rossi Mazzoni, Baylor University, “”The Sharing Economy and Subjective Value–A Conceptual Framework Proposition for the Ridesharing Services”

90 min

Archives Conference Room

Awards

Awarding of the America’s Great Depression and Kenneth Garschina Graduate Essay Competition Prizes, the Lawrence W. Fertig Prize in Austrian Economics, and the O.P. Alford III Prize in Political Economy

15 min

Condon Lecture Hall

“Defending Private Property: Principles of Justice in Rothbard’s Ethics of Liberty”

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Steven and Cassandra Torello

60 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Wanjiru Njoya

Wanjiru Njoya (LLB, LLM, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, where she teaches European Union law and corporate law. Dr. Njoya was previously appointed to the law faculties of the University of Oxford, London School of Economics, and Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

Adjourn

Dinner on your own

Mises Institute closes

Bookstore Open; Coffee Available

“ESG En Route to Etatism”

60 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Allen Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall is Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University; and Executive Director of the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy.

Session 8: Gary North Panel

• Chair: Mark Skousen, Chapman University
• Shawn Ritenour, Grove City College, “Developing a Christian View of Economics: Insights from North’s Economic Commentaries on the Bible”
• Mark Skousen, “Gary North and the Hard-Money Movement”
• Timothy Terrell, Wofford College, “Reconstructing Economics: Faith and Epistemology in Gary North’s Economic Thought”

90 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Session 9: Political Economy

• Chair: Thomas DiLorenzo, Mises Institute
• Thomas DiLorenzo, “Friedman, Hayek, and Mises on the Political Economy of Free Speech”
• Roberta Adelaide Modugno, Roma TRE University, “Carl Schmitt’s Political Category Friend/Enemy during the Pandemic Crisis”
• Daniel Sutter, Troy University, “Nursing Homes, COVID, and the Poverty of Political Dialogue”

90 min

Wolfe Lecture Hall

Session 10: Comparative Economics

• Chair: Paul Cwik, University of Mount Olive
• Jeffrey F. Barr, Las Vegas, “An Austrian Attack on the Corporation”
• Paul Cwik, University of Mount Olive, and Lucas M. Engelhardt, Kent State University, “The Computation Problem: Revisited”
• Gregory Nemirofsky, Redondo Beach, CA, “Soviet Economists’ Critique of the Austrian School”

90 min

Schlarbaum Seminar Room

60th Anniversary Lunch Celebration of Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression

60 min

Hogan Graduation Area

Session 11: America’s Great Depression: Lessons for Today

90 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Session 12: History of Economic Thought

• Chair: Mark Thornton, Mises Institute
• James McClure, Ball State University, “A Struggle of Incomplete Visions: Hayek’s Examination of Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction Thesis”
• Mark Skousen, Chapman University, “Adam Smith Turns 300: A Libertarian Perspective”
• Mark Thornton, Mises Institute, “Richard Cantillon and the Discovery of Price Theory”
• Joseph A. Weglarz, University of Detroit Mercy, “Advancing toward a Study Guide to Accompany Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought”

90 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Session 13: Libertarianism

• Chair: David Gordon, Mises Institute
• Walter Block, Loyola University New Orleans, “The Relationship between Austrian Economics and Libertarianism”
• Eduard T. Bucher, Mises Graduate School, “Outbidding Shekel Pirates on the High C’s”
• Matthew James Geiger, Rey Juan Carlos University, “The Economics of Suicide”
• Jacob Lovell, Akamai Technologies, “Autonomous Systems Relations: The Voluntary Backbone of the Internet”

90 min

Wolfe Lecture Hall

Session 14: Money and Finance

• Chair: Lucas Engelhardt, Kent University
• Christian Lacelle, Université du Québec en Outaouais, “The CFA Franc and the Business Cycle”
• Joshua Mawhorter, Mises Graduate School, “An Internal-External Critique of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)”
• Patrick Newman, Florida Southern College, “Benjamin Strong, Wall Street’s Central Banker”
• T. Hunt Tooley, Austin College, “The Cigarette Economy in Germany, 1945”

90 min

Schlarbaum Seminar Room

Ralph Raico Memorial Commencement Lecture

30 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Timothy D. Terrell

Timothy Terrell is T.B. Stackhouse Professor of Economics at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he has taught since 2000. He earned his PhD in economics from Auburn University in 1998. Dr. Terrell is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, and is assistant editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Mises Graduate School Commencement Ceremony

30 min

Condon Lecture Hall

Reception in Honor of Mises Graduate School Graduates

60 min

Ward Conservatory

Mises Institute Closes