THE KING’S COLLEGE | 56 BROADWAY | NEW YORK CITY

LibertarianScholars Conference

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

8:30 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . coffee, registration

9:00 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Google Marxism: Internet Ideology & the Academics Who Perpetuate It city room 516 | 5th floor

Michael Rectenwald | New York University, Retired

9:45 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . break

10:00–11:30 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . morning sessions

S1 ECONOMIC POLICY classroom 521 | 5th floor

chair: Patrick Newman

Medicaid and Long-Term Care Stephen A. Moses | Center for Long-Term Care Reform

Free-Market Healthcare Nedland P. Williams | Marblehead, Massachusetts

The Central Plan of Public Schooling Benjamin Goes | Schenectady, New York

S2 INTELLECTUAL HISTORY classroom 522 | 5th floor

chair: Jason Jewell

Virtue and Polis: Aristotelian Happiness Without the StateSam Hage | Annapolis, Maryland

The Curious Origins of the Scottish EnlightenmentPaul D. Mueller | The King’s College

A Coherent Liberal EvolutionismScott A. Boykin | Georgia Gwinnett College

The Economic Writings of Russell Kirk, 1953–1993 Jason Jewell | Faulkner University

LibertarianScholars Conference

11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lunch (on your own)

1:30–3:00 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . early afternoon sessions

S3 COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS classroom 523 | 5th floor

chair: Robert Batemarco

Democratic-Socialism: Is it Viable?Hugo Faria | University of Miami

Desocialization of Taxes: A Taxation System Proposal for Venezuela Rafael Acevedo | Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University and Econintech, Venezuela with Luis Cirocco and Maria Lorca-Susino

An Austro-libertarian Review of the Nigerian Economy Tam Kemabonta | Libertarian Institute of Nigeria

Liberals Within an Illiberal State Elena A. Shuvalova | Purdue University

Privatized Regulation of Business: How Post-deregulatory Market Operations Would Occur in a Decentralized Economy Caleb Wright | Wake Forest, North Carolina

S4 SOCIETY AND THE STATE city room 516 | 5th floor

chair: David Gordon

Was Molinari a True Anarcho-Capitalist? An Intellectual History of the Competitive Production of Security David M. Hart | Liberty Fund

Utilising Italian Elite Theory in the Austro-Libertarian Critique of the State Neema Parvini | University of Surrey

“Man is a Political Animal”: Aristotle Responds to Mises and Rothbard Michel Accad | San Francisco, California

The Origin of the State in Rothbard’s Papers Roberta Adelaide Modugno | Università di Roma TRE

S5 AMERICAN HISTORY classroom 521 | 5th floor

chair: Clifford Thies

Euro-Inuit Relations at Wolstenholme Post, 1909–1946: The Arctic Fox Trade and Statelessness Daniella Bassi | Independent Scholar

Money and Prices in Colonial Massachusetts Clifford F. Thies | Shenandoah University

Fast Balls and Fast Bulbs: The Cause of Reckless Yet Rational Gambling Speculation on American Baseball from 1917–1919 and Dutch Tulips from 1636–1637 Gary Richied | Loyola University, Chicago

Civil War Food and Salt Famine in the South: The Resultant Disease EcologyVann Boseman | American Public University System

S6 MONEY AND LABOR MARKETS classroom 522 | 5th floor

chair: Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

The Populist Case for the Gold StandardKristoffer Mousten Hansen | University of Angers

Financial Market Indicators of Global Liquidity RisksJeffrey P. Snider | Alhambra Investments

Anarchy in Money: On the Ethical Economics of BitcoinMax Hillebrand | Baienfurt, Germany

The Disutility of Labor Tate Fegley | George Mason University

LIBERTARIAN SCHOLARS CONFERENCE | THE KING’S COLLEGE | NEW YORK CITY | SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

S7 LIBERTARIAN ACTIVISM classroom 523 | 5th floor

chair: David Gordon

Kickstart a Revolution? A Rhetorical Analysis of Crowdfunding Platforms and Assurance Contracts as Mechanisms for Disruptive Political ParticipationLaura Williams | Emory University

The Conundrum of Running for Office as a LibertarianMark Zaccaria | Saunderstown, Rhode Island

Libertarianism: The Manual to HumanityBrian Gray | Moultrie, Georgia

Mises Investment Tax Proposal Nedland P. Williams | Marblehead, Massachusetts

S8 LAW AND HISTORY city room 516 | 5th floor

chair: Ralph Fucetola

Arguments in Defense of Natural Information RightsErol Sirimoglu | Lodi, New Jersey

Informed ConsentRalph Fucetola | Institute for Health Research

A Tort Law Approach to Fighting Big Tech?Jeff Deist | Mises Institute Allen Mendenhall | Faulkner University School of Law

A Huge Brainwashing Cage Engineered by the General Headquarters (the Occupation Military) in Japan, 1945–1952 Yamashita Eiji | Osaka City University

3:00 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . break

3:15–4:45 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . late afternoon sessions

S9 ANTI-PROGESSIVISM classroom 521 | 5th floor

chair: Patrick Newman

Egghead Imperialists: How American Academics Encouraged and Justified Mid-Twentieth-Century American Imperial ExpansionJason Morgan | Reitaku University

Intellectual Origins of the European Labor Relations SystemJohn W. Rogers | American International College

Rothbard and the Antifederalist Legacy Patrick Newman | Florida Southern College

S10 ECONOMICS AND CULTURE classroom 522 | 5th floor

chair: Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

A Theory of Monopoly on Rothbardian Lines Jorge Bueso-Merino | Valencia, Spain

Beyond Calculation: The Austrian Business Cycle in the Socialist Commonwealth Mark A. DeWeaver | American University

Economies of Archetypes: A Libertarian Approach to Measuring Creation, Dissemination and Inflation of Tropes, Motifs and Stereotypes in Popular Culture William Hanff | University of the District of Columbia

Depicting the Lives of Two Journalists During a Revolution: John Reed and Frédéric Bastiat David Hart | Liberty Fund

LIBERTARIAN SCHOLARS CONFERENCE | THE KING’S COLLEGE | NEW YORK CITY | SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

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S11 PANEL: THE STATE OF THE MODERN LEFT: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES classroom 523 | 5th floor

chair: Yuri Maltsev

What is Cultural Marxism? Distinguishing the Conspiracy Theory from the Real ThingAlexander Zubatov | Independent Scholar

Dissecting Western “Mr. Marxist”: A Libertarian Analysis of Philosopher Slavoj Žižek Pavel Usanov | European University, Saint Petersburg

The Origin of the Identitarian Left: British Cultural Studies and the New Left, 1950s–1960sAndrei Znamenski | University of Memphis

S12 CULTIVATING LIBERTARIAN THOUGHT ON THE COLLEGE CAMPUS city room 516 | 5th floor

chair: Kimberly Johnson

Can There Be a Libertarian Sociology? Richard G. Ellefritz | University of The Bahamas

Libertarianism: A Black Woman’s Intellectual and Ideological Deviance in Higher EducationAnne Wortham | Illinois State University

Ideological Hegemonies in Higher Education: Recruitment Difficulties of Libertarian Faculty and StaffWilliam Anderson | Grove City College

Libertarian Thought on the College Campus: Fostering the Free Exchange of Ideas, Critical Thinking, and Peaceful Self-DeterminationKimberly Johnson | Lock Haven University

4:45 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . break

5:00 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Bitcoin Standard city room 516 | 5th floor Saifedean Ammous | Author, Saifedean.com

5:30 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . adjourn

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE HALIS FAMILY FOUNDATION, NATHAN & ANNA BOND, AND ALICE LILLIE FOR MAKING THIS EVENT POSSIBLE.