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10 - 13 septembre 2009, Paris - Christian Michel : Welcome Address - Pascal Salin : The True Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis - Ionela Bălţătescu : Equilibrium Analysis in Austrian Economics - Marian Eabrasu : Philosophical Anarchism - Thomas Connan : Morality of Capitalism - Bertrand Lemennicier : Strategies Towards Liberty: from the failed battle of ideas to armed resistance against the oppression of our governments - Stefan Metzeler : L’État n’existe pas - Olga Peniaz : Les Théories du cycle des affaires, capitalisme contre interventionisme - Olivier Méresse : Les Réponses intelligentes et libérales à la dégradation de l’environnement - Guillaume Vuillemey : Hell Climate for Tax Havens; The ethics and economics of tax havens - Adrien Foulon : The New Meaning of the Word ‘Risk’ - Pavel Malukowitch : Economics of Corporate Culture: does it meet the current challenges under the Crisis? - Guido Hülsmann : Correct Analyses and Dangerous Theories of the Economic Crisis - Roberta Modugno : Murray Rothbard, Critic of Hayek and Mises - Sophie Robbins : Enlightened England, Optimistic America - Michele Ledda : The Privatisation of Knowledge and the End of Liberal Education - Pierre Bessard : L’Évasion fiscale, tare ou devoir du citoyen ? - François Guillaumat et Georges Lane, enregistrement public d'une émission de Lumière 101 sur le thème : Pourquoi pas Bitur Camember ? - Vincent Bénard : Role of Land Use Laws in the Housing Crisis - Josie Appleton : Green Thinking and the Threat to Liberty and Happiness - Gerald R. Steele : Entrepreneurship: Failing to Succeed - Ali Hamdouch : French Rap and Libertarianism - Dolan Cummings : Freedom and Everyday Life - Frank van Dun : Real Freedom for Real People - Laurence Chatel de Brancion : Les Français et l’argent au cours de l’Histoire - Philippe Simonnot : Ancrer le système monétaire international dans la réalité - Anthony Daniels (aka Dr Theodor Darlymple) : the Dialectic of Ingratitude and Resentment Brought About by the Concept of Rights In the Welfare State - James Panton : Towards a New Theory of the State; what comes after welfare - Kevin Dowd : The Current Financial Crisis: a blueprint for reform - Ken Schoolland : Courage, Fear and Ethics: A libertarian view of immigration - Alberto Mingardi : Why We Are Bound To Lose; the difficult art of speaking freedom in an unfriendly world - Butler Shaffer : Civilization Against the State: Resisting the deadly virus - Panel debate with Mark Skousen, William R. Bonner and Terry Easton : Freedom in our time
Christian Michel : Welcome Address. Christian Michel, Libertarian International, President, convenor of the Paris Freedom Fest 2009.
Pascal Salin : The True Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis. Pascal Salin, Professor of Economics at the University Paris-Dauphine. From 1994 to 1996, he was president of the 'Société du Mont Pélerin' and he has acted as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the government of Niger, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Harvard Institute for International Development. Prof. Salin has been a source of inspiration for many young scholars. He is the author of several books (in French), most notably La vérité sur la monnaie, Macroéconomie, L'arbitraire fiscal, Libéralisme, as well as a great many articles, including in English, on international finance, taxation, and macroeconomics. He is one of the very few advocates of libertarianism who have access (however limited) to the French mass media.
Ionela Bălţătescu : Equilibrium Analysis in Austrian Economics. Ionela Bălţătescu graduated in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest and whilst working at the Institute of World Economy of the Romanian Academy, she is studying economics at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid under Professor Jesus Huerta de Soto. She is a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute - Romania. She has published many papers and articles in economic journals in Romania.
Marian Eabrasu : Philosophical Anarchism. Marian Eabrasu is a postdoctoral fellow, LabTop (Laboratoire Théories du Politique) at Paris 8 - Saint-Denis/Vincennes University. Former fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research in Turin, Marian's research interests are in the fields of philosophy and economics, focusing on the justification of the theories of justice, the theory of political obligation, the meta-normative paradigms (monism, pluralism and relativism), the theories of value (subjectivism and objectivism) and their implications for political theory. The results of his research are available in peer-reviewed journals such as La Revue Française de Science Politique, Les Archives de Philosophie and Libertarian Papers. Ne reccording avalible.
Thomas Connan : Morality of Capitalism. Thomas Connan is reading Business Law at the University of Paris Assas and Business Administration at Paris Dauphine. He has published articles in Le Petit Juriste and on several professional blogs.
Bertrand Lemennicier : Strategies Towards Liberty: from the failed battle of ideas to armed resistance against the oppression of our governments. After a PhD and the ‘agrégation’ (the highest echelon in the French academic currriculum) Bertrand Lemennicier went on to teach Economics at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He is the author of an online Economics textbook (in French). Among his many publications several in English may be found on his website: A Property Right Approach to Morality; Marriage Contracts and the Law, Economics of Marriage: An Austrian Perspective; Why Sophisms Die Hard; Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation or Monopoly.
Stefan Metzeler : L’État n’existe pas. Stefan Metzeler aka Pro Libertate, is a libertarian thinker and activist in Switzerland. He is also the author several successful commercial software applications ranging from banking CRM to laser topography and ballistics testing.
Olga Peniaz : Les Théories du cycle des affaires, capitalisme contre interventionisme.
Olivier Méresse : Les Réponses intelligentes et libérales à la dégradation de l’environnement.
Guillaume Vuillemey : Hell Climate for Tax Havens; The ethics and economics of tax havens. Guillaume Vuillemey is studying political science and economics at the Institute for Political Studies in Paris. He has held various positions with Liberté Chérie, in particular as an analyst. He has published economic and political analysis in Le Figaro, La Tribune and various other newspapers. He has been invited to comment on public policy matters by several media. He has worked at the Institut économique Molinari since September 2007 as a researcher.
Adrien Foulon : The New Meaning of the Word ‘Risk’. Adrien Foulon is a 3rd year student in Accounting, whilst reading economics privately. He is doing work for the classical liberal think tank ALEPS and translating into English Pascal Salin’s seminal book La Vérité sur la monnaie (together with Philippe Chamy).
Pavel Malukowitch : Economics of Corporate Culture: does it meet the current challenges under the Crisis? Pavel Malukowitch graduated from the Belarusian State University in Political Economy. After an MA in Economics at New York state University, he went on to read for a PhD at the Graduate School of Management of Saint-Petersburg State University. His research interests include New Institutional Economics, Business Strategy, Corporate Finance, and Corporate Culture.
Guido Hülsmann : Correct Analyses and Dangerous Theories of the Economic Crisis. After studies in his native Germany and in France and reaching the highest level of the arcane French university curriculum, Guido Hülsmann is Professor at the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Angers and acknowledged as one of the leading modern-day proponents of the Austrian School. Equally at ease in German, English and French, Guido has lectured and written scholarly articles on monetary theory, the gold standard and the complex inter-relationship between money production and ethics. He is the author of a biography of Ludwig von Mises The Last Knight of Liberalism, and a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Roberta Modugno : Murray Rothbard, Critic of Hayek and Mises. Professor Roberta Modugno is an historian of political thought at the University of Roma TRE. Recipient of a fellowship for foreigners of the National Endowment for Humanities, she is the author of Murray N. Rothbard e l’anarco-capitalismo americano, a study of Rothbard as a political philosopher, and many articles and essays in Italian on libertarianism. In 2005 she published a collection of unpublished essays by Rothbard on major philosophers, Diritto, natura e ragione. Scritti inediti versus Hayek, Mises, Strauss e Polanyi, by Rubbettino editore, which is also coming out from the Mises Institute in 2009. Among her major publications: Un dialogue entre les Autrichiens et les libertariens américains, in Histoire du libéralisme en Europe, edited by Philippe Nemo and Jean Petitot, Paris, Presses Universitaire de France, 2006. She is on the Editorial Board of the « Journal of Libertarian Studies » and « Libertarian Papers » . Roberta is Member of the Centro di Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali of the Luiss- Guido Carli and a Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn – Alabama – USA) where she gave the Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture at the last Austrian Scholars Conference.
Sophie Robbins : Enlightened England, Optimistic America. Having been home-educated as a child, Sophie Robbins ('Rihatsu') is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously, a non-coercive child-raising philosophy. She keeps a blog, Valley Forge , on current events, politics, and epistemological and moral philosophy. She is an autodidactic student of philosophy, and is particularly interested in the English Enlightenment. Her favorite philosophers are Karl Popper, Ayn Rand, William Godwin and David Deutsch -- choices which, though unconventional, are far from unconsidered. She has a strong interest in philology, having studied Japanese for three years, and as well as continuing to improve her Japanese she intends to study Latin, philology and classical philosophy at University next year.
Michele Ledda : The Privatisation of Knowledge and the End of Liberal Education. Michele Ledda is an English teacher and a writer on education. The Yorkshire co-ordinator for Civitas’ Supplementary Schools Project, he runs two subject-centred Saturday schools for children from 5 to 15 years of age. With the Manifesto Club, he campaigns for an elitist education for all.
Pierre Bessard : L’Évasion fiscale, tare ou devoir du citoyen ? Pierre Bessard is President of the Liberales Institut, Zürich, and Executive Director of the Institut Constant de Rebecque, Lausanne. Among his many other functions he is a fellow of Institut de Recherches Économiques et Fiscales, Luxembourg and a member of the Mont Pélerin Society and the Friedrich August von Hayek - Gesellschaft. Pierre sits on the Executive Committee of Aktion Medienfreiheit, Zurich, and on the Academic Board of MedECON, Vevey. He was awarded the IREF Essay Prize, the Jaguar Prize of the Jeunes Libéraux Genevois and the Media Prize for Financial Journalism, sponsored by KPMG, Sarasin, Citco Fund Advisors und Jefferies.
François Guillaumat et Georges Lane, enregistrement public d'une émission de Lumière 101 sur le thème : Pourquoi pas Bitur Camember ?
Vincent Bénard : Role of Land Use Laws in the Housing Crisis. Graduate as engineer, Vincent Bénard has been working as a specialist of territorial issues in France. He devotes most of his free time in promoting free-market policies, with an emphasis on housing policies and their implications on the current financial crisis. He became president of the Hayek Institute of Brussels in 2008.
Josie Appleton : Green Thinking and the Threat to Liberty and Happiness. Josie Appleton is convenor of the Manifesto Club. She wrote the Manifesto Club reports, 'The Case Against Vetting', 'How the Child Protection Industry Stole Christmas', and 'Hobby Clubs'. She is a journalist and writer based in London. She writes regularly for , and has contributed to a number of publications, including the Spectator, The Times, Times Literary Supplement and Daily Express.
Gerald R Steele : Entrepreneurship: Failing to Succeed. Gerald R. Steele teaches Economics at Lancaster University Management School. His research interest has mostly focused on Hayek and his time, with two major books, The Economics of Friedrich Hayek and Keynes and Hayek: The Money Economy; as well as his earlier Monetarism and the Demise of Keynesian Economics. Gerald Steele is also the author of many scholarly articles and publications.
Ali Hamdouch : French Rap and Libertarianism.
Dolan Cummings : Freedom and Everyday Life. Dolan Cummings is a co-founder of the Manifesto Club. He works at the Institute of Ideas in London, and edits the online review Culture Wars. He has edited two books, ‘The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual’, and ‘Debating Humanism’, and is currently writing a book about, and in defence of, propaganda.
Frank van Dun : Real Freedom for Real People. Prof. Frank van Dun is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Law. Frank van Dun (Antwerp 1947) studied law and philosophy at the University of Ghent (Belgium). After different teaching and research positions, Prof. van Dun joined the Law Faculty of Universiteit Maastricht to lecture in the fields of philosophy of law, logic, history of ideas, law and economics and fiscal theory. His dissertation was on the fundamental principle of law and in addition to numerous papers (several of which are on his personal site) Prof. van Dun is the author of De Utopische Verleiding (with Hans Crombag; Amsterdam 1997) and Mens, Burger, Fiscus (Maastricht, 2000).
Laurence Chatel de Brancion : Les Français et l’argent au cours de l’Histoire. After a PhD from Paris IV-Sorbonne University, Laurence Chatel de Brancion published several books on French and American History in the period 1750-1850. Her authoritative biography of Cambacérès, Napoleon’s Mentor has been awarded a prize by the Academie Française. She is currently working on the complex evolution of French mentality regarding money.
Philippe Simonnot : Ancrer le système monétaire international dans la réalité. Prof. Philippe Simonnot. After a PhD in Economics and a career in journalism, Philippe Simonnot teaches Law and Economics at the Universities of Paris X (Nanterre) and Versailles. He is also the founder and director of the Observatoire des Religions, an online resource for scholars and the general public interested in the economic history and sociology of religious institutions. Prof. Simonnot is the author of many books, including 39 Leçons d'économie contemporaine ; 21 Siècles d'économie ; Les Papes, l'Église et l'argent, Histoire économique du christianisme des origines à nos jours ; and the two volumes of Économie du droit, t. 1 - L'invention de l'État -- t. 2 - Les Personnes et les choses. Enregistrement non disponible.
Anthony Daniels (aka Dr Theodor Darlymple) : the Dialectic of Ingratitude and Resentment Brought About by the Concept of Rights In the Welfare State.
James Panton : Towards a New Theory of the State; what comes after welfare. James Panton is a tutor in politics at St John's College, Oxford and co-founder of the Manifesto Club. He previously taught politics and sociology at Lady Margaret Hall and Exeter College, Oxford. He has held a number of awards, most recently Carlyle Scholar in the History of Ideas in the Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford. James writes and comments regularly in the media on issues around politics, education and vivisection (he sits on the steering committee of Pro-Test, the Oxford-based group which campaigns in defence of vivisection) and is the author of a number of academic articles on politics, education and the state of intellectual life in the 21st century. He is the editor of Science and Superstititon: the case for a new scientific enlightenment (Policy Exchange, 2006).
Kevin Dowd : The Current Financial Crisis: a blueprint for reform. Kevin Dowd is Professor of Financial Risk Management, University of Nottingham in England. Professor Dowd received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Sheffield and has held various positions at the Ontario Economic Council, Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Sheffield. He is a lifelong libertarian economist and he has written extensively on monetary and macroeconomics, political economy, free banking, central banking and financial regulation. His list of publications includes several books, most notably Measuring Market Risk; Money and The Market: Essays on Free Banking; Private Money: The Path to Monetary Stability; Competition and Finance: A New Interpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics; and Laissez-Faire Banking.
Ken Schoolland : Courage, Fear and Ethics: A libertarian view of immigration. Prof. Ken Schoolland is presently an associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at Hawaii Pacific University. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies program at Chaminade University of Honolulu and head of the Business and Economics Program at Hawaii Loa College. Following his graduate studies at Georgetown University, he served as an international economist in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and on assignment to the White House, Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Ken left government for the field of education, teaching business and economics at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska. He also taught at Hakodate University in Japan and wrote, Shogun’s Ghost: The Dark Side of Japanese Education, which has been published in English and in Japanese. Ken Schoolland’s most popular work, The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey, has been translated into 30 languages with many more translations in progress. Prof. Schoolland is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Individual Liberty and is a Sam Walton Fellow for Students in Free Enterprise.
Alberto Mingardi : Why We Are Bound To Lose; the difficult art of speaking freedom in an unfriendly world. Still in his twenties, Alberto Mingardi is the director general of the Italian free market think tank, the Istituto Bruno Leoni, which he contributed to found in 2003. He is the CEO of IBL Libri, Istituto Bruno Leoni's publishing house. Alberto holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Pavia. His first book, published when he was 17, was a collection of interviews with libertarian thinkers, all done by the e-mail. More recently, Alberto has translated into English Antonio Rosmini The Constitution Under Social Justice (Lexington Books) and edited a collection of essays on the fibancial crisism La crisi ha ucciso il libero mercato?. He has published in a number of publications, including The Wall Street journal and The Financial Times. No reccording avalible.
Butler Shaffer : Civilization Against the State: Resisting the deadly virus. Prof. Butler Shaffer, Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law, and a member of the Colorado and Nebraska State Bars. In 2002, he was named as the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law in recognition of his outstanding contributions to legal education and scholarship. From the view of a "modern social historian and philosopher," Prof. Shaffer has written numerous articles on social theory, business and labour law and has spoken on these topics before a variety of academic and special interest forums, on network television, cable and radio. Among many other books he is the author of Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival and the just published Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System.
Panel debate with Terry Easton, Mark Skousen and William R. Bonner : Freedom in our time. For over 35 years, Professor Terry Easton has taught graduate level and under¬grad courses at several universities in Washington, D.C. and in San Francisco and has spoken worldwide on the topics of freedom, entrepreneurship and personal investing. He is an active member of the Mont Pelerin Society and the National Press Club. Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor and author of more than 20 books. Dr. Skousen has taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. In April 2005, Grantham University honored Dr. Skousen by renaming its School of Business “The Mark Skousen School of Business.” He is a member of the Mont Pélerin Society and a former president of the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE) in New York. Mark Skousen is the founder of FreedomFest, an annual gathering of the freedom movement from around the world, held every year in Las Vegas. William R. Bonner is President and CEO of Agora Inc., one of the world’s largest financial newsletter companies. He is the creator of the Daily Reckoning, a contrarian financial newsletter sent via e-mail. Bill Bonner is previously the author, with Addison Wiggin, of the international bestsellers, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt. His latest book, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics, with Lila Rajiva, is becoming a best-seller after enthusiastic reviews by the likes of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell.
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