ASSC Schedule
Friday, October 31, 2008
4:00-5:00 Registration. HAL Atrium.
5:30-6:30 Dinner. SU Great Room.
7:00-8:00 Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. Sticht Lecture Hall.
“Market Chosen Law” Dr. Edward Stringham
Professor of Economics – Trinity College
Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:00-8:30 Coffee and Pastries. HAL Atrium.
8:30-10:00 Sessions
▪ Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
• “Entrepreneurship in Austrian Economics,” Matt Mueller (Washington University)
• “Moral Entrepreneurship at Any Cost: Entrepreneurship, Rule Creation, and the
Temperance Movement,” Nicholas Snow (George Mason University)
• “Choose Life,” Stefan Madsen (Copenhagen Business School)
▪ Interventionism. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
• “The Fallacy of Food Safety Regulation and the Need for a Mengerian Revival,”
Tomohide Yasuda (University of Massachusetts at Boston)
• “To Wine or Not to Wine: Public Expenditures in the European Wine Sector,” Rebecca
Newborn (Grove City College)
• “Government Intervention in Cases of Market Failure,” Molly Anderson (Grove City
College)
10:15-11:45 Sessions
▪ Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
• “A Christian Anarchist Perspective on the Formation of the State,” James O’Connor
(Collin College)
• “The Folly of Libertarianism: The Ugly Side of Our Economic Savior,” Mark Warner
(Grove City College)
• “Aspects of the Utopian Market Economy,” James Barson (Grove City College)
▪ Failures of Monetary Policy. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
• “Hyperinflation Chaos and Its Impact on Economic Calculation: Evidence from the
Zimbabwean Experience,” Dmitriy Kha (Suffolk University)
• “The Value of the Dollar: Monetary Theory and Its Application in Government Policy,”
Jordan Benis (Grove City College)
• “Market Bubbles, the Causes and Effects of Malinvestments,” Tyler Phillips (Grove
City College)
• “The History of Money in America,” Peter Johnson (Grove City College)
12:00-1:30 Lunch. SU Great Room.
1:45-3:15 Sessions
▪ Austrians on Theory and Policy. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
• “Time Preference and Money: A Dynamic Reappraisal,” David Howden (Rey Juan
Carlos University)
• “Mises and the Austrians: A Suggested Interpretation,” Matt Mueller (Washington
University)
• “Rothbard’s View of Government as a Monetary Authority,” Sean Sredl (Grove City
College)
▪ Social Order and Law. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
• “Competition and the Development of Legal Institutions,” John Singleton (Colorado
University, Denver)
• “The Legalization of Blackmail and the Provision of Testimony,” Jeff Henderson
(University of Calgary)
• “Organized Crime and Self-Enforcing Exchange,” David Skarbek (George Mason
University)
3:30-5:00 Sessions
▪ Financial Markets. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
• “Transparency and Efficiency: How Short Selling Facilitates Markets,” Mark Phillips
(Grove City College)
• “Heterogeneity and Exchange: How Homogeneity Laws Led to the Collapse of La
Convivencia,” Dan Smith (George Mason University)
• “Self-Governance and the Rise of Hanseatic Cities,” Alexander Fink (George Mason
University)
▪ What Should Firms Do. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
• “Corporate Social Responsibility,” David Hannibal (Grove City College)
• “Margaret Thatcher’s Revolution and the Austrian Influence,” Scott Dennis (Grove City
College)
• “Free Trade in Agriculture,” Elizabeth Kahn (Grove City College)
5:30-6:30 Dinner. SU Great Room.
6:45-7:00 Awarding of the Richard E. Fox Prizes for Best Papers. Sticht Lecture Hall.
7:00-8:00 Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. Sticht Lecture Hall.
“Portraits from My Life and Learning, Dr. Robert Higgs
Illuminated by Economic Analysis” Senior Fellow – Independent Institute