The International Conference of Prices & Markets—in concert with the Mises Canada published Journal of Prices & Markets—is excited to announce the dates for the 7th iteration of the conference: November 3rd, 2018, with an opening reception the evening before (November 2nd), and the event continuing throughout the weekend.

Full schedule and agenda TBA soon.

Mises Canada aspires to inform the next generation of great thinkers. As part of that mandate, STUDENTS ATTEND OUR PROGRAMMING FOR FREE. Students are encouraged to register today to attend for the International Conference of Prices & Markets for free, on the campus of the University of Toronto.

SCHEDULE

Friday, November 2nd

7:00 p.m.

Opening Reception

East Thirty-Six
36 Wellington St E, Toronto, ON
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Saturday, November 3rd

SEMINARS

Bahen Centre
University of Toronto
40 St George St., Toronto, ON
(map)

8:30-9:30

Coffee, refreshments and registration opens

9:30-10:30

Session 1

David Howden, Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus, “The Evolution of the Natural Rate of Interest: A Suggested Empirical Interpretation”

Karl-Friedrich Israel, Leipzig University, “The Fiat Standard of the Euro Area: Does the Cost-Saving Argument still hold Water Today?”

10:30-10:45 - Break

10:45 – 12:00

Session 2

Predrag Raijsic, University of Waterloo, “Subjectivism and Methodological Individualism in the Theory of Comparative Advantage: A Market Process Perspective”

Grahame Booker, University of Waterloo and University College, Oxford, retired, “Positive and negative rights and the right to physician-assisted death. ”

Jan Narveson, University of Waterloo, emeritus, “Philosophers v. The Market”

12:00-1:00 - Lunch

On site – provided.

1:00 – 2:00

Session 3

Pierre Desrochers & Joanna Szurmak, University of Toronto Mississauga, Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change”

2:00-2:15 p.m. Break

2:15-3:15 p.m.

Session 4

George Bragues, University of Guelph – Humber, “Banking is Not Special: Herbert Spencer on Minimizing Financial Regulation to Contract Enforcement”

Alasdair Macleod, Goldmoney, “The use of a perpetual loan stock to reintroduce a gold standard”

3:15-3:30 p.m. Break

3:30-4:45 p.m

Glenn Fox, University of Guelph, “Climate Change and the Preponderance of Evidence Standard: An exploration of the emerging Austrian framework”

Yuri Maltsev, Carthage College, “The Ludwig Von Mises’ Thesis on Two Patterns of Socialism: The Case of the Russian Economy under Putin”

Ash Navabi, Toronto Housing Matters, “Optimal Tyranny”

4:45-5:00 p.m

Closing Remarks

7pm – 10pm

Informal Closing Reception & Contiunued Converdsation (Location TBA)