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Location

Located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa., the campus of Grove City College is situated on more than 150 beautiful acres. The College is divided into two sections by Wolf Creek – Lower Campus and Upper Campus. Designed in the 1930s by the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted (who also designed New York City's Central Park), Upper Campus houses the spectacular Hall of Arts and Letters. Completed in 2003, the Hall of Arts and Letters is a beautiful, state-of-the-art teaching facility and the site of the Austrian Student Scholars Conference.

Schedule

Friday, February 24, 2023
  • 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Dinner. (STU Great Room)
  • 7-8 p.m.: Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. (Sticht Lecture Hall)

“Crisis and Hydra: The Ratchet Effect in Government Control over Money and Banking,” Dr. Jonathan Newman, Associate Professor of Economics, Bryan College

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Saturday, February 25, 2023

8:30-10 a.m. Sessions

  • Monetary Mischief. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
    • “De Plena Fide et Fiducia: A Brief History of the Roman Republic’s Monetary System,” Jacob Feiser (Grove City College)
    • “Restraints on Federal Reserve Credit,” Zachary Wood (Grove City College)
    • “The Monetary Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say: Intellectual Predecessor of the Austrian School,” Alex Sodini (Grove City College)

10:15-11:45 a.m. Sessions

  • A Family Affair. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
    • “In the Spirit of Cottage Industry: The Untapped History of Prohibition Era Alcohol Production,” Sebastian Anastasi (Grove City College)
    • “Dissecting the Family Farm: An Inquiry into the Prevalence of Family Farms in United States Agriculture,” Estan Sutter (Grove City College)
    • “Family Destructionism: Hyperinflation and the Familial Institution,” Samuel Peterson (Grove City College
  • Natural Orders. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. (SHAL 116)
    • “Organic Order,” Sebastian Anastasi (Grove City College)
    • “The Origin of Money and Bitcoin’s Connection,” Luke Eldridge (Grove City College)
    • “Cradle of Organized Firefighting,” Janna Lu (Grove City College)

12-1:30 p.m.: Lunch. STU Great Room.

2-3:30 p.m. Sessions

  • How to Start and End Careers. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
    • “Pensions in the U.S.: An Institutional and Historical Inquiry,” Brayden Panazzi (Grove City College)
    • “Japanese Burial Mounds: Applying Rational Wealth Destruction,” Benjamin Seevers (Grove City College)
    • “The Economics of Fraternity Hazing,” Caleb VanGrouw (Grove City College)
  • Marginal Analysis. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
    • “Milk in a Bag: The Hidden Cost of Dairy Subsidies,” Janna Lu (George Mason University)
    • “Giving Marginal Analysis a More Realistic Footing,” Manuel Garcia Gojon (George Mason University)
    • “Private Governance During the California Gold Rush,” Jacob Mullen (Grove City College)

3:45-5:15 p.m. Sessions

  • Complexity, Hierarchies, and Justice. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
    • “Discovery, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship: Austrian Market-Process Theory and the Economy as a Complex System,” Luan Valério (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
    • “Institutional Pushing and Popping,” Kurtis Hingl (George Mason University)
    • “Desert Justice: Bedouin Private Law,” Sam Branthoover (Grove City College)
  • Economic Growth. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
    • “An Analysis of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia,” Hasset Woldu (Cornerstone University)
    • “Singapore: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State,” Tegan Truitt (George Mason University)
    • “Free Immigration, Stimulator of International Trade and Diminisher of Global Poverty,” Semayawit Kebede (Cornerstone University)

5:30-6:30 p.m.: Dinner. (STU Great Room).

6:45-7 p.m.: Awarding of the Andrew S. Korim Prizes for Best Papers. Sticht Lecture Hall.

7-8 p.m.: The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. (Sticht Lecture Hall)

“Capitalism, Socialism and Our Future,” Dr. Peter Boettke, University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University

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