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