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 21, 2025

• 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Dinner. (STU Great Room)
• 6:40-6:50 p.m.: Mises Archive Documentary. (Sticht Lecture Hall)
• 7-8 p.m.: Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. (Sticht Lecture Hall)

"The Value of Inheritance” by Dr. Guido Hülsmann (Professor of Economics, University of Angers)

Saturday, February 22, 2025

8:30-10 a.m. Sessions

• Reconciling Contradictions. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. Staley Hall of Arts & Letters Room 114
  • “Mises Contra God: A Reconciliation,” by Benjamin Seevers (West Virginia University)
  • “The Cartelization of Higher Education,” by Brae Sadler (Grove City College)
  • “Reconciling Contradictions: An Austrian Economic Perspective on Nayib Bukele’s Policies,” Caleb Graeber (Ferris State University)

• Market Solutions to Social Problems. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. SHAL 116.
  • “Equal Revenue Sharing as a Monitoring Mechanism: The Case of Tip Pooling,” by Zachary Wood (Grove City College)
  • “The Foresight, Philosophy, and Philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie,” by Garrett Gess (Grove City College)
  • “If It Pays It Stays: The Economics of Trophy Hunting,” by Scott Cross and Tamás Klein (Grove City College)

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

• Intervention, Inside and Outside. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. SHAL 114.
  • “Planned Obsolescence: An Analysis of Why Regulation Will Ultimately Fail Its Intended Goals,” by Andrew Bonace (Grove City College)
  • “Government Intervention and the Automotive Industry,” by Valerio Bello-Munoz (Cornerstone University)
  • “Coalition Dynamics and Crisis-Driven Legislation: The USA Patriot Act,” by Anna McQueen (Grove City College

• Technology, Good and Bad. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. SHAL 116.
  • “The Economic Cost of Encryption Backdoors,” by Jake McGaha (Ferris State University)
  • “Moneyball’s Legacy: Technological Innovations and Competitive Balance in Major League Baseball,” by Kevin Carr (Grove City College)
  • “Defending Economic Freedom: Addressing Concerns of AI-Induced Inequality,” by Pedro Saltini (Ferris State University)

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

2-3:30 p.m. Sessions

• Sessions Monetary Policy. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. SHAL 114.
  • “Inflation in Ethiopia,” by Bethel Lemma (Cornerstone University)
  • “Implications of the Post-2008 Federal Reserve Policy Regime for Austrian Macroeconomics,” by Zachary Wood (Grove City College)
  • “Floating the Birr: An Austrian Economics Perspective on Ethiopia’s Currency Reform,” by Rediet Teklemariam (Cornerstone University)

• Family Issues. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. SHAL 116.
  • “Stunting the Family: An Economic Theory of Autocrats and China’s One-Child Policy,” by Johanna Keister (Grove City College)
  • “Unexplored Causal Connections of Abortion and Economics,” by Samuel Peterson (Independent Scholar)
  • “The Decapitalization of Children: The Role of Social Security in Family Disintegration,” by Scott Cross (Grove City College)

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

• Fiscal Policy. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. SHAL 114.
  • “Brazilian Pension Reform: Limited Freedom and Economic Inefficiency,” by Felipe Iser (Ferris State University)
  • “Implications of the United States National Debt Crisis,” by Gavin Vander Laan (Calvin University)
  • “The Destructive Impact of Corporate Taxes: The Case of Sweden,” by Filip Flink (Ferris State University)

• Social Order. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. SHAL 116.
  • “Arctic Anarchy: Private Governance among the Inuit of the Polar North,” by Benjamin Seever (West Virginia University)
  • “The Rise and Fall of Kibbutzim,” by Tamás Klein (Grove City College)
  • “Spontaneous Order vs. Centralized Planning: Hayek’s Critique of the French Pandemic,” by Alexis Sémanne (University of Lille)

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)

“A General Theory of Interventionism” by Dr. Guido Hülsmann (Professor of Economics, University of Angers)