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2014 Conference: February 7 & 8
 
2013 Conference: February 15 & 16
  • Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. Dr. David Howden, Asst. Professor of Economics, St. Louis University, Madrid "Legal and Economic Conflicts in Financial Transactions"
     
  • The Financial Crisis of 2007-2008. Chairman: Jeff Herbener.
    • "GLBA and Financial Regulation: The Forgotten Cause of the Financial Crisis," Nicholas Freiling (Grove City College)
    • "Austerity: The Answer to Europe's Crisis," Evan Gruver (Grove City College)
    • "Return of the Bank Run: How the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 Was a Next-Generation Bank Run," Sam Williams (Grove City College)
       
  • Markets and Institutions. Chariman: Shawn Ritenour.
    • "Market Power and Duopoly Despite Regulation: An Analysis of the Market Structure and Economic Conditions of the National Mobile Wireless Telecommunications Market," Claire Vetter (Grove City College)
    • "Costa Nostra, Instutions, and Entrepreneurship," Rosolino Candela (Suffolk University)
    • "Bureaucracy and Innovation: How Hierarchical Firm Structures Stifle Innovation and Spontaneous Processes," William Krut (Grove City College)
       
  • Religion and Economics. Chairman: Jeff Herbener.
    • "St. Thomas Aquinas: Economics of the Just Society,” Michael Hagan (Grove City College)
    • "Religion and Economics: A Direct Investigation of an Indirect Relationship,” Jesse Ingram (Grove City College)
    • "Austrian Economics and Distributism: Comparison in Light of Catholic Social Teaching," Nicole Wizorek (Grove City College)
       
  • Depressions in History. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour.
    • "Austrian Business Cycle Theory: An Application to New Zealand's Recent Boom and Bust," Roy Davidson (University of Waikato)
    • "The Panic of 1873: A Free Market Perspective,” Matt Faherty (University of Chicago)
    • "An Investigation into Great Britain's Commercial Crises of 1857 and the Preceding Business Cycle," John Henry Gendron (Providence College)
       
  • Challenges to Austrian Business Cycle Theory. Chairman: Jeff Herbener.
    • "Rational Expectations and the Business Cycle," Caleb Fuller (Grove City College)
    • "Results of Inflation not Proportional to Its Extent," Leonid Shapiro (Ohio State University)
    • "Business Cycles, Entrepreneurs, and Economic Calculation," Andrew Deckert (Grove City College)
       
  • Property: Public and Private. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour.
    • "Aristotle's Just Theory on the Exclusive Right to Property," Davis Bourne (Millsaps College)
    • "Entrepreneurial Resource Allocation and Internet-Based Consumer Reviews," Ryan Budny (Grove City College)
    • "Public Education: Who Is It For?" Jordan Reel (Loyola University, New Orleans)
       
  • Money and Capital. Chairman: Jeff Herbener.
    • "What Really Drives Sweden's Economic Success: A Policy Analysis Paper of Sweden During the 1930s Crisis and the 1990s Crisis" Luke Cutler (Grove City College)
    • "Causal Factors in the Crisis of Confidence in Hyperinflation," Matt Keith (Grove City College)
    • "Microloans and Austrian Capital Theory," Alex Martin (Grove City College)
       
  • Philosophy and Economics. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour.
    • "Intuition, Science, and the Action Axiom," Bryce Laliberte (University of Minnesota)
    • "Implications of Causal-Realist Preference Theory on Expected Utility Theory," Paul Sangrey (Grove City College)
    • "Argumentation Ethics Applied to Abortion," Justin T.P. Quinn (Rowan University)
       
  • Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. Dr. Peter Klein, Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, “Austrian Economics and Entrepreneurship Research”

 

2012 Conference: February 24 & 25
  • Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. Dr. Philipp Bagus, Assistant Professor of Economics – U. Rey Juan Carlos, "Will Europe Survive?"
     
  • Technology, the Market, and the State. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “Intellectual Property v. the Internet,” James O’Connor (Grove City College)
    • “Buying Into Bitcoin: An Austrian Analysis of the Virtual Currency’s Sustainability,” Melissa Pattison (Grove City College)
    •  “The Abolition of Man through Intellectual Property,” Kevin Rahbar (Grove City College)
       
  • The European Model on Trial. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • “Open or Shut Case?: Turkish Accession to the European Union and Its Effect on the Labor Market,” Hannah Staats (Grove City College)
    • “The European Monetary Union, Fundamentally Flawed,” Dorothy Williams (Grove City College)
    • “Welcome to Hamilton’s Republic: American’s Economic Inheritance from its Forgotten Founder,” Sarah Grable (Grove City College)

 

  • Market Failures? Chairman: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “Prosperity and the Concentration of Wealth in a Free Market Society,” Bryce Laliberte (University of Minnesota)
    • “Financing Our Demise: Towards a Critique of Government-Run National Defense Systems and How a Private System is more Conducive to International Economic Growth,” Andrew Deckert (Grove City College)
    • “Off the Books: A Radical Blueprint for the Eradication of Poverty," Ruben Andrew Pacheco (University of New Mexico)
    •  “The Secret Soldiers: The Modern Corporate Mercenary,” John-Paul Rodgers (Grove City College)
       
  • Economic Theory. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • "Neglected Austrian Theories of Entrepreneurship: Böhm-Bawerk and Fetter,” Matthew McCaffrey (University of Angers)
    • “Economic Calculation, Empirical or A Priori,” Lode Cossaer (University of Leuven)
    • “Dr. Hülsmann and the Pure Time Preference Theory of Interest,” Kyle Latham (Grove City College)
    • “A Defense of the Rothbardian Structure of Production,” Patrick Newman (Rutgers University)
       
  • Libertarian Thought. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “Rethinking the Non-Aggression Principle,” Jonah Bennett (Simon Fraser University)
    • “Plato-Libertarianism, A Case for Defense,” David Grzybowski (Case Western Reserve University)
    • “A Burnt Offering at the Altar of Anarcho-Capitalism: The Integration of Christianity with Natural Law,” Logan Rabe (Grove City College)
    • “They Deny that It Is an Evil: A Reconsideration of Antebellum Southern Liberalism,” Anthony Comegna (University of Pittsburgh)
       
  • Beyond the Market? Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • "Privatization of Public Libraries,” Melody Diehl (University of Pittsburgh)
    • "An Austrian Approach to Charitable Endeavors,” Walter Melnik (Grove City College)
    • "Empty Architecture, Empty Seats: The Anomaly of Modern Art Music," Shane Hoose (University of Iowa)
    • “The Economics of Slavery,” Catherine Haas (Grove City College)
    • “Agent-Based Modeling and Austrian Economics,” Connor Clark (Grove City College)
       
  • Disrupting the Social Order. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “Blood Money: How the Federal Reserve Enables War and Undermines Civil Liberties,” Lukus Collins (University of Detroit, Mercy)
    • “The State and Central Banking, the Irresistible Symbiosis,” Ryan Budny (Grove City College)
    • “Essay on ‘the Rule of Law in Decline,’” Sora Park (SUNY Buffalo)
    • "Civil Society as an Arena of Moral Education,” Jacob Roundtree (Colby College)
       
  • Booms and Busts. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • "The Great Depression II: A Comparative Look at Similarities between the Great Depression and the Great Recession,” Brian Lonto (Grove City College)
    • “Systemic Uncertainty: An Examination of Its Causes and Repercussions,” Soren Kreider (Grove City College)
    • “Greenspan, Bernanke, and the Expansion of the Federal Reserve’s Power,” John Dellape (Grove City College)
    • “Higher Education: Housing Market 2.0?,” Kirby Gowen (Grove City College)
       
  • Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. Dr. Guido Hülsmann, Professor of Economics – U. of Angers, “Macroeconomics: Good and Bad”

 

2011 Conference: February 18 & 19
  • Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. Dr. Robert P. Murphy, Senior Fellow – Pacific Research Institute, “Why Only Austrians Understand the True Danger of Bernanke” [video]
     
  • Institutions and Information: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “Institutional Theory: A Marginal Analysis of Institutions,” Lode Cossaer (University of Antwerp)
    • “Dynamic Equilibrium Process and Resource Based View: Austrian Approach,” Jong Chul Won (University of Missouri)
    • “The Framework of Intellectual Property,” Anthony Oriti (Grove City College)
    • “Science, Technology, and State,” Walter Melnik (Grove City College)
       
  • The End of Planning. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • “Planning the End of Planning: Dis-intervention and the Knowledge Problem,” Kyle O’Donnell (SUNY, Purchase)
    • “Central Economic Planning and India’s Economic Performance (1950-1965): A Re-examination,” G.P. Manish (Suffolk University)
    • “Consumer vs. Bureaucratic Sovereignty,” Bruce Stahl (Grove City College)
    • “An Austrian Analysis of Eminent Domain,” Alex Schroeder (University of Missouri)

 

  • Theory and History of Interventionism: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “Japan’s Lost Generation: An Economic and Historical Perspective,” Christopher Testa (Pace University)
    • “Japan, the Fall of a Miracle System,” Mark Fuller (Grove City College)
    • “Economic Downturns and Government Intervention,” Melissa Sinopoli (Grove City College)
    • “Capitalism, Socialism, Calculation, and Culture,” Brent Butgereit (Rhodes College)
    • “Using the Free Market to Attain the Goals of the Climate Change Movement,” Andrew Chowning (University of Northwestern Ohio)
       
  • The Markets for Money and Credit. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • “Money or Money Substitutes?: Implications of Selgin’s Small Change Challenge,” Malavika Nair (Suffolk University)
    • “Monetary Disequilibrium Theory and Business Cycles: An Austrian Critique,” Ken Zahringer (University of Missouri)
    • “Network Effects and Hayek’s Proposal for Competing Monies,” Will Luther (George Mason University)
    • “The Social Function of Derivatives Markets,” Xavier Méra (University of Angers)

 

  • Religions of the Left. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “The Social Gospel of Jane Addams and the Catholic Christian Response: Competing Views of Charity and Their Implications,” Brandon Harnish (Huntington University)
    • “Global Climate Warming Change Ism: The Religion of the Left and Its Free Market Devil,” Dustin Clark (Xavier University)
    • “Towards an Ethical Conception of the Market Order: An Integration of Austrian Economics and Hegel’s Ethics,” Jacob Rountree (Colby College)
    • “The Confrontation with Equality in Mises and Rothbard,” Alex Pepper (Grove City College)
       
  • Law, Legislation, and Liberty. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • “Toward an Anarchist Constitutional Political Economy,” Michael Wiebe (University of Manitoba)
    • “Monetary Policy and the Rule of Law,” Brittany Cobb (Grove City College)
    • “Judicial Decision Making: An Austrian Perspective,” Christopher Holbrook (University of Missouri)
    • “The Right of Resistance in Ancient China,” Daniel Rodriquez Carreiro (University of Santiago)

 

  • Prices in Theory and History. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. 
    • “The Firm and Strategic Factor Markets: Analyzing the Role of the Firm in the Creation of, and Pricing in, Factor Markets,” Per Bylund (University of Missouri)
    • “A Dissertation on the Causal Nature and Foundations of Market Price Theory,” Abhi Mallick (University of London)
    • “An Austrian Look at the Price Revolution,” Joel Fiscus (Grove City College)
    • “Inflation and Military Expenditures in the Roman Empire, 161-305 A.D.,” Adam Botting (Grove City College)
       
  • Economics and Politics. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. 
    • “What is Political Entrepreneurship,” Matthew McCaffrey (University of Angers)
    • “Roots of the Modern Mixed Economy: What We Can Learn from Civil War Government Intervention,” Harrison Ealey (Grove City College)
    • “The Story of the Suburbs: How the State Destroyed Our Cities and Segregated Society,” Brian Foglia (Richard Stockton College)
    • “Oil Monopoly: A Market Process Analysis from the Austrian School,” Ryan Wood (University of London)
       
  • Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. Dr. Joseph T. Salerno, Professor of Economics – Pace University, “Hyperinflation and the Abolition of Human Personality” [video]