The papers from the Free Market Forum 2006 are available for download below.  Simply click on the title to open the file. 

Please note, all of the talks are available in audio format from Hillsdale College.  Please call 1-800-437-2268.

• “Free Economies and the Common Good”
  Rev. Robert A. Sirico
  
  
  Panel 1:  The Rise of the U.S. to Economic Superpower
  
  
• “Market Conditions in the Late 19th Century”
  P.J. Hill
• “Failure as an Element of Entrepreneurial Success”
  Larry Schweikart
• “Grover Cleveland and Sound Currency”
  Lawrence W. Reed
  
  
  Panel 2:  The Great Depression and the New Deal
  
  
• “What Got Us Into and Out of the Great Depression”
  Robert Higgs
• “The New Deal: Reputation and Reality”
  Jim Couch
• “FDR and the IRS”
  Burton Folsom
  
  
• “Progressivism's Critique of Free Markets”
  Richard Epstein
  
  
  Panel 3:  The Role of the Federal Reserve
  
  
• “The Evolution of Thinking About Federal Reserve Monetary Policy”
  Edward Gramlich
• “How the Fed Works Today”
  Robert Barro
• “The Free Banking Alternative”
  Lawrence H. White
  
  
  Panel 4:  Globalization and the U.S. Economy
  
  
• “Trends in the European Union and Russia”
  Nile Gardiner
• “Trends in China” 
  Charles Wolf, Jr.
• “Trends in Latin America”
  Alejandro A. Chafuen
  
  
  
• “Wealth and Poverty: A 2006 Update”
  George Gilder