Ludwig von Mises Institute Upcoming Events

Mises Circle in Southern California
Sponsored by Louis E. Carabini

5/13/2006 12:00:00 AM

Join the Mises Circle in Southern California, a "working lunch" on Saturday, May 6, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at Scott's Restaurant (see map) in Costa Mesa, California. This special event is being sponsored by Louis E. Carabini.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, David Gordon and Lew Rockwell will be here for a luncheon and a mini-seminar on Austrian economics and libertarianism. James Fogal of the Mises Institute will also be here to talk about tax strategies.

Cost for the event is $35, which includes lunch. Attendance is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible. Register online now.

Student Scholarships are available (apply online).

10:00 a.m. - Refreshments and Registration
10:20 a.m. - Welcome
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. - Hans-Hermann Hoppe, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: "A World Without Theft"
11:30 - 12:45 - Lunch

David Gordon, Mises Review: "Ten Best Books of All Time"

James Fogal, Mises Institute: "How to Outrun the Tax Gatherers, and Help the Mises Institute"

12:45 - 1:00 p.m. - Discussion and Break
1:00- 1:45 - Lew Rockwell, Mises Institute: "To Rule Is To Destroy"
1:45 - 2:00 - Discussion
2:00 p.m. - Adjourn

Selections from the Mises Institute Bookstore will be for sale, and can be autographed.

For accommodations, The Westin is next door to the restaurant. John Wayne Airport is 5-10 minutes away.

Free Speech and Dissent During Wartime

6/7/2006 12:00:00 AM

The Hon. John V. Denson, editor of Costs of War and Reassessing the Presidency, will give the special guest lecture at this year's Steven Berger Seminar: Thomas DiLorenzo on Liberty and American Civilization. "Free Speech and Dissent During Wartime" examines the effect of war on civil liberties in American history.

Lecture outline:

A. Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 - Quasi War with France and response of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.

Perilous Times: Free Speech and Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, by Jeoffrey R. Stone.

Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy, by William J. Watkins, Jr.

Voices in Dissent, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. (an anthology of individualist thought in the United States from Benjamin Rush’s “Plan of a Peace Office” to Erich Fromm’s “May Man Prevail?” which challenged the reigning popular beliefs or opinions of the times.)

B. War Between the States.

The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War, by Frank L. Clement.

Ex Parte: In the Matter Lambdin Milligan, edited by Samuel Klaus.

Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln, by James G. Randall.

Lincoln’s Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scandals and the President’s Mission to Destroy the Press, Jeffery Manber and Neal Dahlstrom

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, by Mark E. Neeley, Jr.

American Bastille, by John A. Marshall.

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda An Unnecessary War, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo.

C. Spanish-American War

Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900, by Robert L. Beisner

Edward Atkinson: The Biography of an American Liberal, 182 7-1905, by Harold Francis Williamson.

D. World War I

Opponents of War, 1917-1918, by H.C. Peterson and Gilbert C. Fite.

World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States, by Paul L. Murphy.

Political Repression In Modern America: 1870 to the Present, by Robert Justin Goldstein.

E. World War II

Free Speech in the Good War, by Richard W. Steele.

A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944, by Lawrence Dennis and Maximilian St. George.

The Constitution in Crisis Times, 1918-1969, by Paul L. Murphy.

F. Vietnam War

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, by Daniel Ellsberg.

G. War on Terror - Iraq

The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism, edited by Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr.

The 2006 Steven Berger Seminar: Thomas DiLorenzo on Liberty and American Civilization

6/12/2006 12:00:00 AM

The Mises Institute presents the 2006 Steven Berger Seminar: Thomas DiLorenzo on Liberty and American Civilization.

The seminar will consist of two primary lectures per day for five days, June 5-9, 2006, and discussion time with the professor. Morning sessions are 10:00 - 11:30 Central Time, and afternoon sessions are 2:00 - 3:30, Monday through Friday, with a pizza party following Friday's closing session.

Lectures
1. Lincoln's Tariff War
2. Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Mercantilism in America
3. Lincoln vs. the Constitution
4. The Classical Liberal States' Rights Tradition
5. The Revolution of 1913
6. Protectionist Origins of Antitrust
7. The Myth of Natural Monopoly
8. Labor Market Superstitions
9. The Truth about the Great Depression
10. Is Voluntary Government Possible?

Special Guest Lecture
Free Speech and Dissent During Wartime by the Hon. John V. Denson
June 6, 4:00 PM

Suggested Readings

Thomas DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
Thomas DiLorenzo, How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold Story of Our History, from the Pilgrims to the Present
Charles Adams, When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
Jeffrey Hummel, Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
Murray Rothbard, "Two Just Wars: 1776 and 1861," in John Denson, ed., The Costs of War (Mises Institute)
Felix Morley, Freedom and Federalism
Dominick Armentano, Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure
Murray Rothbard, "Monopoly and Competition," Chapter 10 of Man, Economy and State
Ludwig von Mises, "Work and Wages," Chapter 21 of Human Action
Murray Rothbard, America's Great Depression
Walter Block and Thomas DiLorenzo, "Constitutional Economics and the Calculus of Consent," Journal of Libertarian Studies, Summer 2001, pp. 37-56.
Morgan Reynolds, Labor and the Austrian School
Thomas Woods, Forgotten Facts of American Labor History

You may register online . Dormitory rooms are available for $35 per person per night double-occupancy or $45 per night single-occupancy.

For other Auburn accommodations, go here. For Atlanta-Auburn airport shuttles, see Express85.

Students may apply for tuition scholarships by submitting the online application form along with a copy of student ID and an informal transcript copy. A limited number of travel scholarships are available. This information can be mailed to DiLorenzo Scholarship Committee, Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832, or faxed to 734-448-8148, or emailed to pat@mises.org.

Philosophy Seminar with Roderick Long

June 26-30, 2006 Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama — 7/3/2006 12:00:00 AM

Roderick T. Long is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University; Editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies ; President of the Molinari Institute; Adjunct Scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute; and author of Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand and the forthcoming Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1992, and blogs at Praxeology.net.

This seminar on praxeological foundations of libertarian ethics will consist of two primary lectures per day for five days, June 26-30, 2006, and includes discussion time with the professor. Morning sessions are 10:00 - 11:30 Central Time, and afternoon sessions are 2:00 - 3:30, Monday through Friday, with a pizza party following Friday's closing session.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION

On the one hand, the subjective-value approach to economics characteristic of the Austrian school might seem inhospitable to objective theories of ethical value. Yet on the other hand, philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle, and Aquinas based their objective conceptions of ethics on something rather like a praxeological analysis of subjective valuation; indeed, subjectivist economics and natural law ethics both originated from this common tradition. Can an objective ethics in a broadly Aristotelian tradition be grounded in praxeological considerations? And if so, what shape might a radical libertarian political theory take if built on such foundations?

The first half of the seminar will deal with the praxeological foundations of ethics. Topics include: do human beings have an ultimate end? can we knowingly choose the bad? how are morality and self-interest related? why should we care about other people's interests?

For a preview of the sorts of issues to be addressed, listen to this lecture: Economics and its Ethical Assumptions .

The second half of the seminar will explore the implications of praxeological, Aristotelean ethics for such issues as property rights, contracts, land ownership, punishment and restitution, military policy, stateless legal systems, utilitarian vs. rights-based considerations, and the cultural preconditions of liberty.

REGISTER NOW.

SCHEDULE

I. From Praxeology to Ethics

1. Objective and Subjective Value [day 1, morning]
2. The Praxeological Case for an Ultimate End [day 1, afternoon]
3. Free Will: Two Paradoxes of Choice [day 2, morning]
4. The Moral Standpoint [day 2, afternoon]
5. An Aristotelian Ethics of Virtue [day 3, morning]

II. From Ethics to Liberty

6. Justice, Rights, and Consequences [day 3, afternoon]
7. Property, Land, Contract [day 4, morning]
8. Punishment and War [day 4, afternoon]
9. Culture and Liberty [day 5, morning]
10. An Anarchist Legal Order [day 5, afternoon]

SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READINGS

1. Objective and Subjective Value

Plato: Eryxias
Roderick T. Long: Economics and Its Ethical Assumptions [mp3 audio]

2. The Praxeological Case for an Ultimate End

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
Roderick T. Long: Review of Leland Yeager's Ethics As Social Science

3. Free Will: Two Paradoxes of Choice

Plato: Hipparchus
George Schlesinger: The Unpredictability of Free Choices

4. The Moral Standpoint

Christine Korsgaard: "The Reasons We Can Share: An Attack on the Distinction Between Agent-Relative and Agent-Neutral Values." (Social Philosophy and Policy vol. 10, no. 1 (Winter 1993), pp.24-51; also available as a chapter in her book Sources of Normativity )

5. An Aristotelian Ethics of Virtue

Cicero: On Moral Duties, Book I
Henry B. Veatch: Natural Law: Dead Or Alive?
Roderick T. Long: Archetypes vs. Agency

ADVANCED:
Michael Thompson: The Representation of Life

6. Justice and Rights

Roderick T. Long: The Nature of Law, Part IV: The Basis of Natural Law
Roderick T. Long: Why Does Justice Have Good Consequences?

7. Property, Land, Contract

Murray Rothbard: Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts
Randy E. Barnett: Contract Remedies and Inalienable Rights
Roderick T. Long: Slavery Contracts and Inalienable Rights
Roderick T. Long: A Plea for Public Property

8. Punishment and War

Murray N. Rothbard: War, Peace, and the State
Randy E. Barnett: Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice
Roderick T. Long: Punishment v. Restitution
Roderick T. Long: Thinking Our Anger
Roderick T. Long: "The Irrelevance of Responsibility" (Social Philosophy and Policy vol. 16, no. 2 (Summer 1999), pp.118-145 -- available online soon.)

9. Culture and Liberty

Chris Matthew Sciabarra: Dialectics and Liberty
Roderick T. Long & Charles W. Johnson: Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?

10. An Anarchist Legal Order

Alfred Cuzan: Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?
Roderick T. Long: Anarchism as Constitutionalism: A Reply to Bidinotto, Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 .

The Seminar is open to full-time students (no charge for qualifying students). Registration is $125 for Mises Institute Members (click HERE to join, or to update your membership) and faculty, and $195 for non-Members. Registration includes daily boxed lunches, refreshment breaks, closing pizza party, transportation between the dorm and the Institute each day, and the use of Mises Institute research libraries and computers. You may register online . Dormitory rooms are available for $35 per person per night double-occupancy or $45 per night single-occupancy. For other Auburn accommodations, go here. For Atlanta-Auburn airport shuttles, see Express85.

Students may apply for tuition scholarships by submitting the online application form along with a copy of student ID and an informal transcript copy. A limited number of travel scholarships are available. This information can be mailed to Long Scholarship Committee, Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832, or faxed to 734-448-8148, or emailed to pat@mises.org.

Commerce and Culture: A Seminar with Paul Cantor

July 24-28, 2006 Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama — 8/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Are commerce and culture perennially at odds with each other? Does the marketplace inevitably corrupt artists? At most colleges and universities across the country, the answer to these questions would be "yes," but the Mises Institute offers another perspective.

Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is a pioneer in literary criticism from an Austrian perspective. Having studied with Ludwig von Mises, he has been working to counter the Marxist understanding of culture that dominates in the humanities today.

Conceiving of culture as a form of spontaneous order, he argues that market principles such as free trade and competition are as beneficial in the artistic realm as they are in the economy as a whole. He shows that commercial culture is at least as vibrant and varied as the elite culture championed by Romantics and modernists.

In this week-long seminar, Cantor will discuss a variety of case studies of commercial culture, including Shakespeare's theater, classical music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the serialized novel in Victorian Britain, the Hollywood studio system, and the development of the Fox network on television. He will also consider the alternatives to commercial culture, from aristocratic and church patronage to totalitarianism and other forms of government support for the arts.

For more on his perspective, see his interview in the Austrian Economics Newsletter; hear his Mises Memorial Lecture: "Austrian Economics and Literary Criticism"; or his talk at the Trouble with Taxation Conference: "Taxation and Literary History, or Who Killed John Keats?"

The seminar will consist of two primary lectures per day for five days, July 24-July 28, 2006, and discussion time with the professor. Morning sessions are 10:00 - 11:30 Central Time, and afternoon sessions are 2:00 - 3:30, Monday through Friday, with a pizza party following Friday's closing session. REGISTER ONLINE NOW.

LECTURE I — THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF CULTURE

An introduction to the basic systems of supporting the arts—patronage, commercial markets, government funding.
Culture and spontaneous order.

LECTURE II—SHAKESPEARE’S THEATER

A study of the first example of "mass market" culture, and its intersection with aristocratic patronage. Shakespeare as businessman.

Film: Shakespeare in Love

LECTURE III—THE ECONOMICS OF PAINTING—PATRONAGE VS. THE MARKET

Case studies include Michelangelo and Rubens. Answer to the riddle: "When is a Rembrandt not a Rembrandt?"

LECTURE IV—THE ECONOMICS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC—PATRONAGE VS. THE MARKET

Case studies include J. S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, and Wagner. The Church, the Court, and the Middle-Class Piano.

Film: Amadeus

LECTURE V—THE SERIALIZED NOVEL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

A study of the first form of culture mass-marketed as a commodity. The distinctive nature of print culture. Focus on Dickens. The art of the cliffhanger. Mass culture and artistic feedback.

LECTURE VI—THE ECONOMICS OF MODERNISM

Modernist hostility to the market. The return to patronage and the turn to the academy and government funding. Case studies include T. S. Eliot, Pound, and Joyce, with some attention to modernist painting and music.

LECTURE VII—TOTALITARIANISM AND THE ARTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY

The modern patrons of the arts: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Roosevelt. Case studies include Wilhelm Furtwängler and Dimitri Shostakovich. How to rub a dictator the wrong way.

Films: Great Conductors of the Third Reich; Shostakovich Against Stalin

LECTURE VII—THE RISE OF THE MOTION PICTURE

The great example of commercial culture.
The studio system vs. the auteur.
Critique of Frankfurt School critique.

LECTURE IX—HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE TUBE

Television as the test case of commercial culture.
National Networks vs. Cable TV.
In defense of Rupert Murdoch and Fox TV (The Simpsons and The X-Files).

LECTURE X—CONCLUSION—CULTURE AS POP CULTURE

The advantages and disadvantages of the market as support for the arts. Comparison with other systems. Toward a theory of media change. Video games and the future. The spontaneous order model.

No advance reading is necessary for this seminar; the lectures will not assume any prior knowledge. But if you wish to prepare in any of the areas, Dr. Cantor offers the following suggested readings. If you want to purchase one book for the seminar, he recommends Tyler Cowen’s In Praise of Commercial Culture (readily available in paperback), which Dr. Cantor will refer to frequently. Many of the other books are available in paperback and all should be available in any good academic library. Dr. Cantor has divided the readings into primary and secondary; "primary" means that it provides a basic introduction to the topic; "secondary" means that it delves into the topic in greater depth. Annotations have been supplied where the relevance of the book is not obvious.

LECTURE I
Primary: Tyler Cowen, "Introduction" and "The Arts in a Market Economy" in In Praise of Commercial Culture (1-43)
Secondary: John Storey, Inventing Popular Culture (a good representative of Marxist views of popular culture)

LECTURE II
Primary: Lukas Erne, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (an excellent overview of the economic basis of Shakespeare’s theater, arguing that he was interested not only in the performance but also in the publication of his plays)
Secondary: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (a study of the economic basis of the Renaissance, relating cultural achievements to commercial developments)

LECTURE III
Primary: Tyler Cowen, "The Wealthy City as a Center for Western Art" (83-128)
Secondary: Svetlana Alpers, Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market

LECTURE IV
Primary: Tyler Cowen, "From Bach to the Beatles: The Developing Market for Music" (129-80)
Secondary: F. M. Scherer, Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

LECTURE V
Primary: Tyler Cowen, "The Market for the Written Word" (44-82) Jennifer Hayward, "Introduction" and "Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial" in Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera (1-83)
Secondary: Ludwig von Mises, "Literature Under Capitalism" in The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (48-72)
Lee Erickson, "Marketing the Novel, 1820-1850" in The Economy of Literary Form (142-69)

LECTURE VI
Primary: Lawrence Rainey, Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture, especially Chapter 2-Joyce, Chapter 3-Eliot, and Chapter 4-Pound (42-145)
Secondary: Paul Delaney, "Paying for Modernism" and "T. S. Eliot’s Personal Finances, 1915-1929" in Literature, Money and the Market (147-71)
Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word (an incisive—and amusing—critique of modernist painting and the way it is marketed)

Lecture VII
Primary: Frederic Spotts, "The Perfect Wagnerite" and "The Music Master" in Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics (223-307)
Solomon Volkov, ed., Testimony: The Memoirs of Dimitri Shostakovich (this book is highly controversial; the authenticity of the "memoir" has been questioned; nevertheless, it remains fundamental to the Shostakovich-Stalin issue)
Secondary: Peter Adam, Art of the Third Reich
Brandon Taylor & Wilfried van der Will, The Nazification of Art: Art, Design, Music, Architecture & Film in the Third Reich

LECTURE VIII
Primary: Tyler Cowen, "Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care" in Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Culture (73-101)
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" in Dialectic of Enlightenment (120-67; the classic Marxist attack on Hollywood)
Secondary: Thomas Schatz, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio
Era Colin Haskins, Stuart McFayden, and Adam Finn, Global Television and Film: An Introduction to the Economics of the Business
Jack Stillinger, "Play and Films: Authors, Auteurs, Autres" in Multiple Authorship and the Myth of the Solitary Genius (163-81)

LECTURE IX
Primary: Daniel Kimmel, The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television
Secondary: Paul Cantor, Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization (chapters on The Simpsons and The X-Files, 67-198)

LECTURE X
Primary: Tyler Cowen, "Why Cultural Pessimism" in In Praise of Commercial Culture (181-210)
Secondary: Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright, Culture and Enterprise: The development, representation and morality of business (an attempt to apply Austrian economics to cultural issues)

NOTE: At the seminar, Dr. Cantor will provide a more extensive bibliography on all these topics.

The Seminar is open to full-time students (no charge for qualifying students). Registration is $125 for Mises Institute Members (click HERE to join, or to update your membership) and faculty, and $195 for non-Members. Registration includes daily boxed lunches, refreshment breaks, closing pizza party, transportation between the dorm and the Institute each day, and the use of Mises Institute research libraries and computers. You may register online. Dormitory rooms are available for $35 per person per night double-occupancy or $45 per night single-occupancy. For other Auburn accommodations, go here. For Atlanta-Auburn airport shuttles, see Express85.

Students may apply for tuition scholarships by submitting the online application form along with a copy of student ID and an informal transcript copy. A limited number of travel scholarships are available. This information can be mailed to Cantor Scholarship Committee, Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832, or faxed to 734-448-8148, or emailed to pat@mises.org.

Mises University 2006

July 30-August 5 The Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama — 8/11/2006 12:00:00 AM

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NOTE: Applications submitted between October 15 and December 25 were not received due to a technical problem. Please re-apply, and we apologize for the inconvience.

Come deepen your knowledge of the Austrian School, or discover it for the first time at the 20th annual Mises University. The entire program will take place at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, July 30 through August 5, 2006.

Mises University is open to full-time students, faculty, and current Members of the Mises Institute (Click HERE to join). Interested full-time students can apply now to receive a scholarship covering full tuition, housing, and meals (catered and served at the Mises Institute). Faculty may use the full-time faculty registration form (includes full tuition and meals, housing extra). Members can use the Member Observer form (includes full tuition and meals, housing extra).

AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS

Rooted in the tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, as well as Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek, the Austrian School offers a rigorous and logical approach to economics that gives free markets their due and takes full account of the reality of human choice.

More than a field within economics, the Austrian School is an entirely different approach that dissents from the mainstream on method, theory, and policy. It views economic actors as unique, conscious, and freely choosing individuals, not as undifferentiated data to be manipulated mathematically or politically.

THE PROGRAM

The Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1986, it has been the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

The program offers courses, seminars, and reading groups on the whole range of the discipline. A core curriculum presents economic foundations, and more than fifty elective classes explore the entire range of economics, in all levels of advancement. The program ends with a Mündliche Prüfung, an optional exam for an honors certificate.

Some very good news for those students who attend the Mises University this summer (and following): The student who emerges from the oral examinations (the Mündliche Prüfung) with the best record, as chosen by the examining committee, will be awarded the Douglas E. French Scholarship Prize of $2,500. The winner will be announced and the prize money given at the final barbecue.

Subject areas cover market behavior, competition, value and utility, money and banking, business cycles, industrial organization, method, economic history, the philosophy of science, financial economics, and more. You attend what most suits your interests and level of advancement.

Classes are interspersed with reading groups, discussion seminars, faculty panels, and plenary lectures. There are special sessions on economic history, economics and ethics, and political philosophy. Nightly social hours allow time to meet and discuss it all with faculty and other students. There's even a primer on surviving graduate school.

All students must be familiar with the Required Readings prior to attending. You might also examine the lecture notes of David Heinrich (Class of 2004), which covers approx. 2/3 of the conference (many sessions are parallel).

THE CAMPUS

The Mises Institute, the world center for the scholarship of liberty, is located adjacent to the campus of Auburn University and near the heart of uptown Auburn. The recently expanded Mises Campus features seminar rooms, an extensive special-collections library, a large archival center housing the papers of Mises and other great Austrian economists, seminar rooms, and retail bookstore, a music conservatory, an outdoor amphitheater, and study gardens.

You'll stay at the Day's Inn near the Mises Institute, that offers comfortable. air-conditioned rooms, with an outdoor pool.

All meals are catered and will be enjoyed at the library and gardens of the Mises Institute. Classes will be in the seminar rooms and library of the Mises Institute. Nightly social hours will offer refreshments and movies in an informal atmosphere ideal for discussing new ideas from the daily lectures or for making new friends.

THE FACULTY

Walter Block (Loyola University, New Orleans)
Thomas DiLorenzo (Loyola College, Baltimore)
Roger Garrison (Auburn University)
David Gordon (Mises Review)
Jeffrey M. Herbener (Grove City College)
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Mises Institute)
Peter Klein (University of Missouri)
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
Robert Murphy (Hillsdale College)
Ralph Raico (State University College at Buffalo)
George Reisman (Pepperdine University)
Joseph T. Salerno(Pace University)
Mark Thornton (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
Thomas Woods (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

THE CONSUMERS SAY: See this compendium of student comments

The Schedule

SUNDAY, July 30, 2006

5:00-7:00pm Registration at Mises Institute (bus between dorm and Mises Institute every half hour)
7:00pm Dinner at the Mises Institute
8:00pm Welcoming remarks, faculty introductions. Thornton.
8:15pm The Life and Work of Ludwig von Mises.Raico.
9:00 Social Hour
10:00pm Shuttle departs Mises Institute for dorm and hotel

MONDAY July 31

7:30-8:30am Breakfast at Commons Dorm
8:30am Shuttle departs dorm for Mises Institute
9:00-10:00am The Marginalist Revolution. Salerno.
10:15-11:00am Value, Utility, and Price. Herbener.
11:30am-12:30pm Praxeology: The Austrian Method. Hoppe.
12:30pm Group photo in Hogan Amphitheater
12:45-1:30pm Lunch at Mises Institute
1:30-2:30pm The Division of Labor and Society.Hülsmann.
2:45-3:45pm Money and Banking. Reisman.
4:00-5:00pm Capital and Interest.Murphy.
5:00pm Dinner at the Mises Institute
6:00pm Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle. Garrison.
7:00pm The Future of Austrian Economics: A Video with Murray Rothbard. (Optional)
8:00pm Shuttle departs Mises Institute for Commons Dorm/Hotel
8:00pm Study/Social Hour

TUESDAY August 1

7:30-8:30am Breakfast at Commons Dorm
8:30am Shuttle departs Dorm/Hotel for Mises Institute
9:00-10:00am Monopoly and Competition. DiLorenzo.
10:15-11:15am Economics of the Firm. Klein
11:30-12:30pm Austrian vs. Neoclassical Analytics. Murphy
12:30-1:30pm Lunch at the Mises Institute
1:30-2:30pm Calculation and Socialism. Salerno.
2:45-3:45pm Interventionism. Block.
4:00-5:00pm Liberalism. Raico.
5:00pm Dinner at the Mises Institute
6:00pm: The Mises Circle. Economics and the Historians. Woods
8:00pm: Study/Social Hour

WEDNESDAY August 2

7:30-8:30am Breakfast at Commons Dorm
8:30am Shuttle departs Dorm/Hotel for Mises Institute
9:00-10:00am Concurrent Sessions
- Further Explorations in Austrian Value and Utility Theory. Herbener.
- Epistemological Problems of Economics. Gordon.
10:15-:11:15am Concurrent Sessions
- Theory of Profit, Loss, and Entrepreneurship. Salerno
- Economics of the Public Sector. DiLorenzo.
- Law and Economics. Hoppe.
11:30-12:30pm Concurrent Sessions
- The Great Depression. Garrison.
- Environmental and Resource Economics. Reisman.
- Friedman vs. Mises on Method. Long.
12:30-1:30pm Lunch at Mises Institute
1:30-2:30pm Concurrent Sessions
- On Private Property. Block.
- Liberalism on War and Peace. Raico.
- Further Considerations in the Theory of Interest. Hülsmann.
2:45-3:45pm Concurrent Sessions
- Economics of F.A. Hayek. Klein. Massey Library
- Economics of Risk and Insurance. Hoppe.
4:00-5:00pm Concurrent Sessions
- Keynes and Hayek: Head to Head. Garrison.
- Prohibition and Consumption Controls. Thornton
- Consumer Sovereignty and the Production Process. Murphy
5:30pm The Mises Circle: The Indefensible State. Hoppe.
7:00pm Dinner and Social Hour at Roosters (one block east from the Mises Institute)

THURSDAY August 3

7:30-8:30am Breakfast at Commons Dorm
8:30am Shuttle departs Dorm/Hotel for Mises Institute
9:00-10:00am Concurrent Sessions
- The Fallacies of Public Finance. Block.
- On Doing Economic History. Woods.
- The Persistence of Keynesian Macroeconomics. Herbener.
10:15-11:15am Concurrent Sessions
- The Theory of Political Entrepreneurship. DiLorenzo.
- The Fiscal Issues: Tax and Deficit Finance. Garrison.
- General Equilibrium Analysis in Austrian Economics. Hülsmann.
11:30-12:30pm Concurrent Sessions
- Theory and History. Gordon.
- Austrian Answers to Neoclassical Puzzles. Murphy.
- Time and Uncertainty. Herbener
12:30-1:30pm Lunch at the Mises Institute
1:30-2:30pm Concurrent Sessions
- The Benevolence of Capitalism.Reisman.
- The Economics of Deflation. Hülsmann.
- World War I: Failure of the State Elites. Raico
2:45-3:45pm Concurrent Sessions
- Economics as a Profession. Klein.
- Mises and Rothbard in the History of Thought. Salerno.
4:00-5:00pm Concurrent Seminars
- Theory and History. Hoppe, Hülsmann.
- Economics and Ethics. Gordon, Long.
- The Corporate State. Woods, Thornton
- A Critique of Public Choice on Government. DiLorenzo, Block.
- Common Errors in Economic Theory. Herbener, Klein, Murphy.
5:00pm Dinner
7:00pm The Mises Circle: The Lincoln Cult. DiLorenzo
8:00pm Study/Social Hour
8:00-9:00pm Shuttle from Mises Institute to dorm/hotel every 15 minutes

FRIDAY August 4

(Deadline for signing up for Mündliche Prüfung at 5:00pm today. Sign-up sheet and testing information are at front desk.)

7:30-8:30am Breakfast at Commons Dorm
8:30am Shuttle departs dorm/hotel for Mises Institute
9:00-10:00am Concurrent Sessions
- Health Economics. Block.
- The Free Market and Shareholder Rights. Klein.
- Protectionism: Origin and Effects. DiLorenzo
10:15-11:15pm Concurrent Sessions
- Vienna vs. Chicago on Monetary Issues. Garrison.
- International Monetary Systems. Salerno. Massey Library
- American Presidents vs. Economic Law. Woods.
11:30-12:30pm Concurrent Sessions
- Current Topics in Economic Policy (equal pay, discrimination and the glass ceiling) Block.
- Economic Reasoning: The Most Common Fallacies. Gordon.
12:30-1:30pm Lunch at Mises Institute
1:30-2:30 Concurrent Sessions
- New Directions for Austrian Economists. Salerno.
- The Economics of Inflation. Reisman.
2:45-3:45pm Concurrent Sessions
- Protection and the Market for Security. Hoppe.
- Economics and its Ethical Assumptions. Long.
4:00-5:00pm Faculty Panels
- Microeconomics: Block, DiLorenzo, Klein, Gordon, Herbener, Murphy, Woods, Thornton.
- Macroeconomics: Garrison, Hülsmann, Block, Hoppe, Long, Reisman, Salerno.
5:00pm Dinner at Mises Institute
7:00pm: The Mises Circle: Mystery Speaker.
8:00pm Study/Social Hour

SATURDAY August 5

8:00 and 8:30am shuttle from Commons Dorm/Hotel to the Mises Institute
8:00-8:45am Breakfast at Mises Institute
9:00-10:00am Concurrent Sessions
- The Economics of Information Technology. Klein.
- The Rothbardian Theory of Taxes. DiLorenzo.
- The Economics of Legal Tender Laws. Hülsmann.
10:15-11:15am Concurrent Sessions
- Economics of Political Centralization. Hoppe.
- The American Austrians. Herbener.
11:30-12:30pm Concurrent Sessions
- The Path to Sound Money. Reisman.
- Business Cycles and Prediction. Thornton.
12:30-1:30pm Lunch at Mises Institute
1:30-2:30pm Concurrent Sessions
- Recent Books Important to Austrians. Gordon.
- Apriorism and Positivism in the Social Sciences. Long.
2:45pm Study Time and Mündliche Prüfung (optional exams for honors certificate: Those who would like to have their knowledge tested at the end of the conference may choose to take part in an oral exam (German: Mündliche Prüfung). Other than in the U.S. and many other countries, viva voce examination has always been, and is still, the standard form of exam in Central Europe. A jury composed of three to five professors from our faculty will engage each examinee in a 10-15 minutes question-and-answer session based on the readings and the lectures you attend. Those who pass will receive a graded certificate. Each faculty panel will select one student as the leading candidate from its examinations. The three students will then undergo a deeper examination. The student selected by the faculty as the most learned of the conference will receive a cash award of $2,500.
3:00pm Shuttle from Mises Institute to Commons Dorm
3:00pm Film in CondonLecture Hall
5:00pm Shuttle from Commons Dorm to Mises Institute
5:30 pm Closing Cook-out, Graduation, and Social Hour at Mises Institute
7:30-8:30pm Shuttle from Mises Institute to Commons Dorm every 15 minutes

HOW TO APPLY

If you are a full-time student, graduate or undergraduate, fill out the on-line Student Scholarship Application which can be sent by mail or email attachment. The application deadline is July 10, 2006. Economics majors have priority, but students in all disciplines are encouraged to apply.

You must also send the following items to the Institute via email with attachments to pat@mises.org, or by fax to 734-448-8148, or via regular mail to Mises University, 518 W. Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832.

unofficial copy of your transcript
copy of your student ID
No student scholarship application will be considered until it is complete.

If accepted, you must then familiarize yourself with the Required Readings, most of which are available on Mises.org.

There are openings available for faculty members at the rate of $375, which covers tuition and meals. Use this faculty registration form.

A limited number of Observer spaces are available. The price of $675 includes all meals, lectures, and student materials.For hotels in the Auburn area, click HERE. Use this Member Observer registration form. For questions, email pat@mises.org.

Accommodations: See Hotels in the Auburn Area or register on-line for a room at the Day's Inn. Mention the Mises Institute for special rate of $65 per night at the Crenshaw House Bed and Breakfast.

Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom: Supporter's Summit 2006

October 27-28, 2006 Auburn, Alabama — 11/6/2006 12:00:00 AM

Imperialism takes many forms, and is driven by many motivations, but it result has this in common with all forms of state interventions: it fails to achieve the overt aims of its proponents and it leaves the subjects touched by it less free.

It is now widely understood that the US in the post-Cold-War world acts as empire but few understand the inevitable results and costs. This conference will explore what the Austrians have said on the topic, and how that differs from what the critics and proponents of global imperialism have to say.

The speakers will include many senior faculty and adjunct scholars of the Mises Institute.

The supporters summit is always an occasion of learning, fellowship, and fun. It provides an opportunity for scholars and Members to meet each others, exchange ideas, and to stategize for the future.

The price of the conference is $195 for sessions, breaks, and a large reception on Friday. An additional $45 covers the closing dinner on Saturday night at the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, where the Gary G. Schlarbaum Award will be presented to Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Hotel rate of $99 for the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center can be guaranteed until September 26. The conference will begin on Friday at 1:00pm Central Time, and close with a black-tie dinner on Saturday.

Make your reservation now.