Conference “Mises: The Defender of Civilization and Economics”

International Conference on Ludwig von Mises’s contribution to political science and economics – in connection with the publication of the Polish edition of Human Action.

The Post Conference Stuff

  1. Photos
  2. Recordings as MP3 files - in Polish and English

27 October 2007
Warsaw - Poland

Dom Literatury, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 87/89

Registration form.

We provide assistance with hotel reservations - send an e-mail at: wf@mises.pl.

Contact

Fundacja Instytut Ludwiga von Misesa
Address: Kryniczna 12/14/5, 03-934 Warszawa
Bank account: 19 2130 0004 2001 0253 7975 0001
E-mail: mises@mises.pl

Witold Falkowski
E-mail: wf@mises.pl
Telephone: +48 601 396020

Speakers

Prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, University of Nevada
Sociologist and economist, author of numerous books and articles, among them Democracy: The God that Failed (Polish translation 2005).

Prof. Robert Ciborowski, Uniwersytet w Białymstoku
Economist, specializes in political economics.

Prof. Wojciech Gasparski, PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Philosopher, praxeologist, specializes in ethics of business, Editor in Chief of the journal “Praxeology”, Chairman of the Polish Praxelogical Association.

Dr Nikolay Gertchev, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Economist, specializes in monetary theory.

Dr Jan Kłos, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Philosopher, translator of Mises’s Bureaucracy, author of Introduction to the Polish edition of Bastiat’s L’Etat.

Prof. Jakub Z. Lichański, University of Warsaw
Specializes in Theory of Literature and History and Theory of Rhetoric.

Dr Josef Šima, Liberalni Institut, Praha
Economist, author of Czech translation of Human Action.

Schedule

Time Lecturer Subject
09:00 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:20   Mateusz Machaj, Witold Falkowski, Instytut Misesa Welcome, Introductory speeches
10:20 - 11:00 Lecture 1 Prof. Wojciech Gasparski Praxeology: its founders – Bouredeau, Espinas, Kotarbiński, Mises – and their followers
11:05 - 11:45 Lecture 2 Dr Josef Šima The Importance of Property-based Misesian Economics
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 12:40 Lecture 3 Dr Jan Kłos Free market society as a society of moral order described by Mises
12:45 - 13:25 Lecture 4 Prof. Jakub Lichański [Subject to be announced]
13:25 - 14:25 Lunch
14:25 - 15:05 Lecture 5 Prof. Robert Ciborowski Austrian thought in theories of economic development
15:10 - 15:50 Lecture 6 Dr Nikolay Gertchev The importance of Human Action for monetary theory
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:50 Lecture 7 Prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe Ludwig von Mises: Economist and Classical Liberal
16:55 - 18:00   Panel discussion What is imperfect/problematic/to be further elaborated in Austrian economics and in Human Action?
18:00 - 18:20 Closing remarks, coffee
18:30 - 19:30 Wine reception (by special invitation only)


Place

Warszawa, Dom Literatury
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 87/89

Take a 175 bus from the airport or Central Railway Station and get off at “Plac Zamkowy” stop (near Sigismund’s Column - Kolumna Zygmunta)


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