Free Market Forum 2011

For the 2011 Free Market Forum, participants gathered in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s program was expanded to include 100 faculty members from 31 states, several Canadian provinces, and Lithuania. In addition, 20 state policy leaders from the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico took part in the Forum, as well as several hundred friends of Hillsdale College. Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament, was the opening speaker. Chris Chocola, president of Club for Growth, and Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley also addressed the audience.

The papers from the Free Market Forum 2011, with the exception of Daniel Hannan, Chris Chocola, and Nikki Haley, are available for download below.  Simply click on the title to open the file.

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

“The New Road to Serfdom: Lessons to Learn from European Policy”
Daniel Hannan
European Parliament

Panel 1—“The National Debt and Entitlement Reform”
Chair: Gary Wolfram, Hillsdale College

• “The Debt Crisis”
  David R. Henderson
  Hoover Institution
  
• “The Entitlement Crisis”
  Michael D. Tanner
  CATO
  
• “The Politics of Entitlement Reform”
  Dean Clancy
  FreedomWorks
  
  

Panel 2—“Can We Shrink the Federal Bureaucracy?”
Chair: Kris Mauren, Acton Institute

• “Do We Need the Department of Education?”
  Charles Murray
  Author, Real Education
  
• “Is the Department of Energy Worth the Money?”
  Jerry Taylor
  Institute for Energy Research
  
• “Abolish the Commerce Department?”
  Iain Murray
  Competitive Enterprise Institute

“Economic Issues and the 2012 Elections”
Chris Chocola
Club for Growth

Panel 3—“The Debate Over Public-Sector Unions”
Chair: Burton Folsom, Jr., Hillsdale College

• “The History of Public-Sector Unions”
  Paul Moreno
  Hillsdale College
  
• “The Economics of Public-Sector Unions”
  Charles Baird
  California State University
  
• “The Politics of Public-Sector Unions”
  Steven Greenhut
  Pacific Research Institute

“Federalism and Fiscal Responsibility”
Nikki Haley
Governor of South Carolina