Hillsdale College's Center for the Study of Monetary Systems and Free Enterprise announces the 2008 Free Market Forum:
"The Role of Markets and Governments in Pursuing the Common Good"
September 25-27, 2008
The Dearborn Inn
Dearborn, Michigan
Thursday, September 25, 2008
8:00 pm "Economics and the 2008 Election"
Karl Rove
FOX News Commentator
Friday, September 26, 2008
8:00 am Panel #1: "Markets and Politics"
Chair: Gary Wolfram
Hillsdale College
"The Politics of Healthcare"
Kimberly A. Strassel
Wall Street Journal
"Taxes & Deficits - A 2008 Perspective"
Alan Reynolds
CATO
"Energy Dependency and the Role of Government"
Francis Smith
Competitive Enterprise Institute
10:15 am Panel #2: "Freedom and the Environment"
Chair: Jay Richards
Acton Institute
"The Problem with Environmental Education Today"
Michael Sanera
John Locke Foundation
"The Use and Abuse of Global Warming"
Stephen Hayward
American Enterprise Institute
"Endangered Species: The Case of the Polar Bear"
Ben Lieberman
Heritage Foundation
1:30 pm Panel #3: "21st Century Challenges to Property Rights"
Chair: William H. Mellor
Institute for Justice
"History of Property Rights"
James Ely, Jr.
Vanderbilt University
"Property Rights after KELO"
Edward J. Erler
California State University, San Bernardino
"Water Rights: Current Controversies"
Gary Libecap
University of California, Santa Barbara
8:00 pm "The Theoretical Roots of American Bureaucracy"
Jonah Goldberg
Author, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left,
From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Saturday, September 27, 2008
8:00 am Panel #4: "Is Free Trade Fair Trade?"
Chair: Burton Folsom
Hillsdale College
Discussant: Donald Boudreaux
George Mason University
"The Development of Free Trade in Europe"
Gene King
Oklahoma Baptist University
"Free Trade as an Instrument of Justice"
John E. Charalambakis
Asbury College
"The Morality of Free Trade"
J. Stephen Phillips
Belhaven College
10:15 am "How to Teach Economics"
Ken Elzinga
University of Virginia
The following event will take place at the Ford Event and Conference Center, located across from the Ford Museum in Dearborn.
8:00 pm "Property Rights and a Free Society"
Hernando De Soto
Institute for Liberty and Democracy