Grove City College will host the Austrian Student Scholars Conference, November 3-4, 2006. Open to undergraduates and graduate students in any academic discipline, the ASSC will bring together students from colleges and universities across the country to present their own research papers written in the tradition of the great Austrian School intellectuals such as Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and Hans Sennholz. Accepted papers will be presented in a regular conference format (see the schedule below) to an audience of students and faculty. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Drs. Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Thomas Woods.

Cash prizes of $1,000, $750, and $500 will be awarded for the top three papers, respectively, as judged by a select panel of Grove City College faculty. Hotel accommodations will be provided to all students who travel to the ASSC to present their papers. Limited stipends are available for travel expenses. Students should submit their proposals to present a paper to the director of the conference (jmherbener@gcc.edu) by October 1. To be eligible for the cash prizes, finished papers should be submitted to the director by October 15.

In 1956, J. Howard Pew hired Hans Sennholz, the young protégé of the Dean of Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises, to head the economics department at Grove City College. Under his direction, Grove City College became the world’s leading undergraduate institution for the study of Austrian economics. At commencement in 1957, GCC awarded an honorary doctorate degree to Mises.  Five years after Mises died in 1973, his widow, Margit von Mises, was asked by their friend, Hans Sennholz, to make GCC permanent home to his papers. Since 1978, the 20,000 page Mises Archive at GCC has already been the source of four books of his previously unpublished manuscripts.

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Located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the campus of Grove City College comprises over 150 beautifully landscaped acres, 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, the Upper Campus houses the spectacular Hall of Arts and Letters. Completed in 2003, HAL is a beautiful, state-of-the-art teaching facility and the site of the Austrian Student Scholars Conference.

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Schedule

Friday, November 3, 2006

"The Living Wage: What's the Problem?" by Dr. Thomas Woods
Senior Fellow in History - Ludwig von Mises Institute

• The Many Facets of Entrepreneurship - Chairman: Jeff Herbener [HAL 114]
• "Entrepreneurship: An Innovative Promoter of Economic Progress," Michael York (Grove City College)
• "The Economics of Natural Disaster: The Role of the Entrepreneur," Tyler Watts (George Mason University)
• "Christian Entrepreneurship: A Unique Approach," Abigail Johnson (Grove City College)
• The State Against Society - Chairman: Shawn Ritenour [HAL 116]
  • “The Rule of Law Versus the Failure of Foreign Aid in Africa,” Nicholas Curott (San Jose State University)
  • “Consumer Sovereignty and Government Enterprise,” Sam Magee (Grove City College)
  • “Crowding Out Emergent Institutions in the Wake of Katrina,” Noah Tyler
    (George Mason University)

• Economics and Law -  Chairman: Jeff Herbener [HAL 114]
  • “Incarceration for Private Rather than Public Interest: An Economic History of Prisons in Classical Athens,” Daniel D’Amico (George Mason University)
  • “Praxeology and Jurisprudence,” Tim Witt (Grove City College)
  • “Technology and the Shape of the Music Industry,” Nicholas Snow (San Jose State University)
• Money and Capital - Chairman: Shawn Ritenour [HAL 116]
  • “A Basic Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of Monetary Economics,”
    Alexander Villlacampa (University of Florida)
  • “Real World Options to Fractional Reserve Banking ,” Sean O’Brien (Grove
    City College)
  • “Vintage Capital, Putty-Clay Technologies, and Austrian Capital Theory,”
    Lucas Engelhardt (Ohio State University)

• The History of Austrian Thought - Chairman: Jeff Herbener [HAL 114]
  • “Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Exploitation Theory,” Leah McLaughlin
    (Grove City College)
  • “The Hope of Austrian Economics,” Scott Dennis (Grove City College)
  • “Does Man Have a Right to Education,” David Gernhard (Grove City College)
• The Market at Work - Chairman: Shawn Ritenour [HAL 116]
  • “Free Trade Zones in the Caribbean: The Effects on Product Quality and
    Differentiation,” Andrew Neumann (West Virginia University)
  • “Southern Agriculture Before 1860: Problems in Government Intervention,”
    Anna Levenstein (Grove City College)
  • “Wage Rate Disparity in the Antebellum South: The Market’s Response to Industrialization ,” Courtney Winther (Grove City College)

"The Private Law Society" by Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Professor of Economics - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Distinguished Fellow - Ludwig von Mises Institute