Austrian Economics Seminar at the Foundation for Economic Education

|Peter Boettke|

On Monday August 2nd, the Foundation for Economic Education will host again the summer seminar in Austrian economics.  These seminars owe their origins to the academic entrepreneurship of Israel M. Kirzner, and have been located through the years in Boulder, Co., Milwaukee, Wisc., Irvington, NY, New York City, and for more than the past decade back in Irvington at the FEE campus.

This year speakers will include Israel Kirzner, Mario Rizzo, Roger Garrison, Peter Lewin, Bill Butos, Bruce Caldwell, Larry White, Steve Horwitz, Pete Leeson, Chris Coyne, and myself.

I hope Steve will live blog from the seminar as he often has in the past.  I am thrilled again to get the chance to see Professor Israel Kirzner and get a chance to talk economics with him.*

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*Fred Sautet and I are almost complete with our editing of The Collected Works of Israel M. Kirzner, we are just putting the finishing touches on our introduction for Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice.  I think this is perhaps Kirzner's most underappreciated work, and I hope this edition will bring new attention to this work and its importance in Kirzner's body of work.

Comments

[Lee Kelly]

By the way,

Why can't central planners dance?

Because they have a coordination problem!

*ba dum tish*

I'll let you use that one.

[Mario Rizzo]

I hope I can remember to be on time. My internal equilibrium of plans is clouded by radical uncertainty.

[Lee Kelly]

Mario, is that the economics of time and ignorance thereof?

[Greg Ransom]

MUCH agreed:

"we are just putting the finishing touches on our introduction for Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice.  I think this is perhaps Kirzner's most underappreciated work, and I hope this edition will bring new attention to this work and its importance in Kirzner's body of work."

[Troy Camplin]

Look forward to being there.

[John Papola]

Man, I wish I could take the week off and attend. I think my wife would kill me if I used my vacation time on economics though. Will all of the lectures be posted so that I can enjoy them on my commute?

[Troy Camplin]

I don't get vacation, so I had to take a week off from work, meaning no pay for a week, and my wife let me . . . :-)

[Pietro M.]

See you there on monday. At present I'm enjoying the weak sun of southern california. I hope ."casual business attire" doesn't imply a jacket, otherwise I will have to lose some buck at Gap. :)

[Troy Camplin]

I'm interpreting it as slacks and a polo shirt.

[Steve Horwitz]

Casual means polo shirt, shorts and crocs, right Pete? :)

[Mario Rizzo]

There are no standards. Sigh.

[Richard Ebeling]

If I may second Pete's comment that Kirzner's "Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice" is an outstanding work.

Shortly after the book was published, I wrote a review of it in the February 1990 issue of "Freedom Daily," published by the Future of Freedom Foundation.

The review may be accessed at:

http://www.fff.org/freedom/0290d.asp

Richard Ebeling

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