Monday,
September 12
Agenda
The Gender Wage Gap
Speaker: Ben Southwood, Head of Research, Adam Smith Institute
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9:30 at GSAB 112
Licensing
Speaker: Jarrett Skorup, Policy Analyst, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
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9:55 a.m. at GSAB 112
The Morality of Capitalism
Speaker: Andrew Bernstein, Professors of Philosophy, American University in Bulgaria, Foundation for Economic Education
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10:20 at GSAB 112
F.A. Hayek Lecture: The History of Entrepreneurship in America
Speaker: Dr. Burt Folsom, Charles Kline chair of history and management, Hillsdale College
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6:00 p.m. at Griswold Lecture Hall
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Tuesday.
September 13
WIE (NADA)
Agenda
Entrepreneurship in Bulgaria: a view from the outside
Speaker: Toufic Hawly, CEO, Feronialab
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9:30 a.m.
Market failure - or government failure?
Speaker: Eamonn Butler
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9:55 a.m.
Regulation and economic growth
Speaker: James Broughel, Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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10:20 a.m.
Ending the war on drugs
Speaker: Jacob Hornberger, Founder and President, Future of Freedom Foundation
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11:00 a.m.
Immigration reform
Speaker: Charles Steele, Dettwiler Chair in Economics, Hillsdale College
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11:25 a.m.
Austrian economics
Speaker: Peter Klein, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Baylor University and Mises Institute
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11:50 a.m.
The Austrian School in the battle of ideas
Speaker: Richard Ebeling, Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise, The Citadel
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12:20 p.m.
Threats to freedom in Europe
Speaker: Kalin Manolov, Journalist, Bulgaria on Air TV, Institute for Free Market Capitalism Atlas
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12:55 p.m.
Keeping Our Republic
Speaker: Matthew Parks, Professor of Politics, The King’s College
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1:20 p.m.
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Wednesday,
September 14
GLA
Agenda
Sweatshops: lessons from the Third World
Speaker: Benjamin Powell, Senior fellow of Independent Institute, Director of the Free Market Institute, professor of economics at Texas Tech University, North American Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics, past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education
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9:30 a.m.
Political Stablity vs. Populism
Speaker: Dimitar Ivanovski, former Deputy Minister of Finance, Alternate Governor for IMF, Governor for Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Program Director in the Center for Economic Development in Bulgaria
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9:55 a.m.
Fiscal responsibility: lessons from Canada
Speaker: Charles Lamman, Director Fiscal Studies, Fraser Institute in Canada
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10:20 a.m.
Constitution Day Lecture: "The Constitution and the Spirit of Enterprise"
Speaker: Anthony Peacock, Utah State University
6:00 p.m.
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Thursday,
September 15
WIE (NADA)
Agenda
Criminal justice reform
Speaker: Ronnie Lampard, Director, Criminal Justice Reform Task Force, American Legislative Exchange Council
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9:30 a.m.
What Austrians can teach us about the economy
Speaker: Federico N. Fernández, Senior Research Fellow, Austrian Economics Center
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9:55 a.m.
Continuity, Change and the Constitution
Speaker: John York, Research Assistant, The Heritage Foundation
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10:20 a.m.
Private institutions, NGO’s, and liberty
Speaker: Georgi Vuldzhev, Bulgarian Libertarian Society
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11:00 a.m.
Inequality--Should We Care?
Speaker: Gary Wolfram, William E. Simon Professor of Economics, President of Hillsdale Policy Group, Hillsdale Colleg
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11:25 a.m.
What Is Objectivism and What It Isn't
Speaker: Aaron Smith and Tsvetelin Tsonevski, Instructors, Ayn Rand Institute
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11:50 a.m.
The sharing economy
Speaker: Michael Van Beek, Director of Research, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
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12:30 p.m.
Death by Regulation: How We Were Robbed of a Golden Age of Health and How We Can Reclaim It
Speaker: Ken Schoolland, President and Mary Ruwart, Chair, Liberty International
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12:55 p.m.
The Fed as a threat to capitalism
Speakers: Kuzman Iliev and Vladimir Sirkarov, Journalists, Bulgaria on Air TV, Brain Workshop Institute
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1:20 p.m.
Milton Friedman Lecture: The Seven Principles of Sound Policy
Speaker: Lawrence Reed, President, Foundation for Economics Education
(Introduction by Kristin Stehouwer, VP, COO, and CAO of Northwood University)
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6:00 p.m. at Griswold Lecture Hall
Ice cream social to follow the official closing of Freedom Week 2016 by Keith Pretty, President and CEO of Northwood University
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