Event Details

Location

Located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa., the campus of Grove City College is situated on more than 150 beautiful acres. The College is divided into two sections by Wolf Creek – Lower Campus and Upper Campus. Designed in the 1930s by the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted (who also designed New York City's Central Park), Upper Campus houses the spectacular Staley Hall of Arts and Letters. Completed in 2003, the Staley Hall of Arts and Letters is a beautiful, state-of-the-art teaching facility and the site of the Austrian Student Scholars Conference.

Schedule

Friday, February 16, 2024

• 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Dinner. (STU Great Room)
• 7-8 p.m.: Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. (Sticht Lecture Hall)

“Can We Return to the Gold Standard,” Dr. Sandra Klein, Professor of Economics, Baylor University

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

8:30-10 a.m. Sessions

• Capitalism, Pure and Impure. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
  • “Anti-Competition, Anti-Consumer: A Critical Examination of American Antitrust Enforcement,” Cory Boyer (Grove City College)
  • “Interest Groups and the Switch from Contributory to Comparative Negligence,” Zachary Wood and Samuel Peterson (Grove City College)
  • “Smith Has a Book on That,” Sierra Grissom (Grove City College)

10:15-11:45 a.m. Sessions

• Institutions of the Mixed Economy. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
  • “Shoemaking: An Inquiry into the Causes of Institutional Change,” Amy Shanks (Grove City College)
  • “Bureaucracy and Grove City College: How One College Resisted Bureaucratization of Higher Education,” Brae Sadler (Grove City College)
  • “Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200: State Monopolies on the Common Law,” Cory Boyer, Jacob Feiser, and Alex Sodini (Grove City College)

• Unseen Consequences of Intervention. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. HAL 116.
  • “The Silent Killer: Naloxone’s Invisible Effects on the Drug Epidemic,” Scott Cross (Grove City College)
  • “Divorce, Education, Unemployment, and Incarceration in the U.S.,” Annika Bolhuis (Cornerstone University)
  • “Government and Science: How Scientific Progression is Slowed Down by Intervention,” Josiah Newton (Grove City College)

12-1:30 p.m.: Lunch. STU Great Room.

2-3:30 p.m. Sessions

• Property. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
  • “A Property Rights Approach to Children,” Benjamin Seevers (West Virginia University)
  • “Paving Over Pigou: Privately Owned Roads and the Case for Private Goods Solving Externalities,” Zachary Gallagher (Grove City College)
  • Thomas DiLorenzo’s Organized Crime: An Austrian Analysis,” Gavin Vander Laan (Ferris State University)

• Seen Consequences of Monetary Inflation. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
  • “Illustrating Cantillon Effects in the Ethiopian Context,” Yohanna Shawell (Cornerstone University)
  • “Murray Rothbard Meets Walt Disney: An Economic Analysis of Disney on Film,” Alex Sodini (Grove City College)
  • “Central Bank Digital Currency: Unraveling Impacts on Freedom, Economic Development, and Privacy,” Pedro Saltini (Ferris State University)

3:45-5:15 p.m. Sessions

• Pure Theory. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. HAL 114.
  • “Capitalism as the Market Process,” Samuel Branthoover (George Mason University)
  • “Dar Al-Islam and Medieval Islamic Thought: The Economic Science in the Religion of the Prophet,” Jacob Feiser (Grove City College)
  • “Risk in Mises’s Unstable Equilibrium Model,” Dante Bayona (Baruch College)

• Malinvestments. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
  • An Austrian Critique of ESG as a Form of Malinvestment,” Ellie VanFarowe (Cornerstone University)
  • “Behind the Clintonomic Curtain: Examining the Mirage of 1990s Prosperity,” Garrett Gess (Grove City College)
  • “The Impact of Government Deficits on Ethiopian Labor Markets,” Hasset Woldu (Cornerstone University)

5:30-6:30 p.m.: Dinner. (STU Great Room).

6:45-7 p.m.: Awarding of the Andrew S. Korim Prizes for Best Papers. Sticht Lecture Hall.

7-8 p.m.: The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. (Sticht Lecture Hall)

“Property Rights and Entrepreneurial Judgment,” Dr. Peter Klein, W.W. Caruth Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation, Baylor University

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