2007 Sessions for the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics

Session 22*1 Human and Social Capital and Economic Development
Session 22*2 Entrepreneurship, Ownership and Organization
Session 22*3 Knowledge, Learning and Science
Session 22*4 Capital-Based Macroeconomics and Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Session 22A Roundtable on Daniel Shapiro's Is the Welfare State Justified?
Session 22B Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Competition
Session 22C Capital, Time and Entrepreneurship
Session 22D Reminiscences of Menlo Park, 1977
Session 22G Austrian Perspectives on Prices, Technology and Taxes
Session 22H Coordination, Knowledge and Belief
Session 22K Rothbard’s Man, Economy and State after 45 Years

 
Sunday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
SDAE
Session 22*1
Human and Social Capital and Economic Development

Session Chairs:

Howard Baetjer, Jr., Towson University

Papers:

"Community Resilience in New Orleans East: Deploying the Cultural Toolkit within a Vietnamese-American Community"
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College (Contact Author)
Virgil Henry Storr, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

"Can Ideas Be Capital: Can Capital Be Anything Else"
Peter Lewin, University of Texas at Dallas
Howard Baetjer, Jr., Towson University (Contact Author)

"Media in a New Role"
Nabamita Dutta, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Nabamita Dutta, West Virginia University
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College
Howard Baetjer, Jr., Towson University


 
Sunday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
SDAE
Session 22*2
Entrepreneurship, Ownership and Organization

Session Chairs:

Maria Minniti, Babson College

Papers:

"Swedish Listed Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Spirit"
Per-Olof Bjuggren, Jönköpings International Business School
Johanna Palmberg, Jönköpings International Business School

"The Entrepreneur: Real and Imagined"
Joseph T. Salerno, Pace University (Contact Author)

"Economic Calculation and Limitless Organization"
Doug MacKenzie, SUNY Plattsburgh (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Maria Minniti, Babson College
Doug MacKenzie, SUNY Plattsburgh
Joseph T. Salerno, Pace University


 
Sunday
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
SDAE
Session 22*3
Knowledge, Learning and Science

Session Chairs:

William N. Butos, Trinity College

Papers:

"Learning, Teaching, and Educating: An Entrepreneurial Perspective"
Stephan Boehm, University of Graz - Austria (Contact Author)

"The Parallels between Hayek's Cognitive Theory and His Constitutional Theory"
Nikolai G. Wenzel, Hillsdale College (Contact Author)

"Government Funding and the Stability of Science"
William N. Butos, Trinity College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Nikolai G. Wenzel, Hillsdale College
William N. Butos, Trinity College
Stephan Boehm, University of Graz - Austria


 
Sunday
3:00 - 4:45 p.m.
SDAE
Session 22*4
Capital-Based Macroeconomics and Austrian Business Cycle Theory

Session Chairs:

Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University

Papers:

"Choice, Emergence, and Macro-Level Theorizing: A Restatement of Austrian Cycle Theory"
Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"A Capital-Based Theory of Secular Growth"
Andrew T. Young, Emory University (Contact Author)

"Hayek and Friedman: Head to Head"
Roger W. Garrison, Auburn University (Contact Author)

"Rescuing Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Real and Nomical Account Profits"
Alan Lockard, St. Lawrence University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Andrew T. Young, Emory University
Roger W. Garrison, Auburn University
Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University


 
Monday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
SDAE
Session 22A
Roundtable on Daniel Shapiro's Is the Welfare State Justified?

Moderators:

Steven G. Horwitz, St. Lawrence University

Panelists:

Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University

Daniel Shapiro, West Virginia University

Roger D. Congleton, George Mason University


 
Monday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
SDAE
Session 22B
Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Competition

Session Chairs:

Peter J. Boettke, George Mason University

Papers:


 
Monday
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
SDAE
Session 22C
Capital, Time and Entrepreneurship

Session Chairs:

Barry D. Simpson, University of South Alabama

Papers:

"Heterogeneous Entrepreneurs, the Monetary Footprint, and Austrian Business Cycle Theory"
Toby Baxendale, Seafood Holdings Ltd
Anthony John Evans, ESCP-EAP European School of Management and George Mason University

"Capital and Entrepreneurship: A Radical-Subjectivist Restatement of Böhm-Bawerk’s Concepts of Capital Structure And Roundaboutness"
Antony Mueller, University of Caxias do Sul (Contact Author)

"Mengerian Causality: The Case of the Entrepreneur"
Barry D. Simpson, University of South Alabama (Contact Author)
Scott A. Kjar, Loyola University of New Orleans

Discussants:

Antony Mueller, University of Caxias do Sul
Barry D. Simpson, University of South Alabama
Toby Baxendale, Seafood Holdings Ltd


 
Monday
3:00 - 4:45 p.m.
SDAE
Session 22D
Reminiscences of Menlo Park, 1977

Moderators:

Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Institute for Energy Research

Panelists:

John B. Egger, Towson University

Roger W. Garrison, Auburn University

Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr., The Cato Institute

Joseph T. Salerno, Pace University


 
Tuesday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
SDAE
Session 22G
Austrian Perspectives on Prices, Technology and Taxes

Session Chairs:

John B. Egger, Towson University

Papers:

"A Subjectivist Looks At Intermediate Price Theory"
John B. Egger, Towson University (Contact Author)

"Markets for Technology: Implications of an Austrian Framework of Property Rights"
Michael Ehret, Freie Universitaet Berlin (Contact Author)

"The Marginal Tax and Marginal Tax Wedge on Labor in Sweden from 1861 to 2004"
Gunnar Du Rietz, The Ratio Institute
Dan Johansson, The Ratio Institute
Mikael Stenkula, The Ratio Institute (Contact Author)

"An Actuarial Analysis of Crime Data with Applications to Subscription Patrol And Restitution"
Wilton D. Alston, Independent Scholar
Gil Guillory, Independent Scholar (Contact Author)
Mike Blakeney, Georgia State University

Discussants:

Michael Ehret, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Mikael Stenkula, The Ratio Institute
Gil Guillory, Independent Scholar
John B. Egger, Towson University


 
Tuesday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
SDAE
Session 22H
Coordination, Knowledge and Belief

Session Chairs:

Daniel B. Klein, George Mason University

Papers:

"Coordination in the History of Economics"
Daniel B. Klein, George Mason University
Aaron Orsborn, George Mason University

"Knowledge and Beliefs in Economics: The Case of the Austrian Tradition"
Agnes Festre, GREDEG-DEMOS (Contact Author)

"The Three-Door Anomaly, the Information Cascades and the Bayes’ Rule: Some Austrian Solutions for a Paradox"
Pierre Garrouste, ATOM

"Bayesian Bias in Forensics"
D. Glen Whitman, California State University, Northridge (Contact Author)

Discussants:

TBA


 
Tuesday
2:00 - 3:45 p.m.
SDAE
Session 22K
Rothbard’s Man, Economy and State after 45 Years

Moderators:

Doug MacKenzie, SUNY Plattsburgh

Panelists:

Robert C. Blackstock, Louisiana Tech University

Peter J. Boettke, George Mason University

Larry J. Sechrest, Sul Ross State University


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