Cato University 2009
July 26, 2009 — July 31, 2009
Schedule
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| Sunday, July 26 | |
| 3:00pm – 6:00pm | Registration |
| 6:30pm – 7:30pm | Reception |
| 7:30pm – 9:00pm | Dinner with speaker Tom Palmer – “Emerging Challenges to Freedom and Limited Government” |
| Monday, July 27 | |
| 8:00am – 9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Tom Palmer – “Sociology of the State” |
| 10:30am – 10:45am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:45am – 12:15pm | Robert Higgs – “The Economics of Public Choice” |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Robert McDonald – “The Crisis of the British Empire and the American Revolution” |
| 3:30pm – 3:45pm | Refreshment Break |
| 3:45pm – 5:00pm | Marcus Cole – “The Law of Freedom and the Law of Power” |
| 6:30pm – 7:00pm | Reception |
| 7:00pm – 9:00pm | Dinner with speaker, Tibor Machan – “The Ethics of Responsibility” |
| Tuesday, July 28 | |
| 8:00am – 9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Robert McDonald – “The Crisis of the Civil War and Its Consequences” |
| 10:30am – 10:45am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:45am – 12:15pm | Robert Higgs – “War and the Cult of National Planning” |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Robert Higgs – “The Great Depression: Causes and Consequences” |
| 3:30pm – 3:45pm | Refreshment Break |
| 3:45pm – 5:00pm | Marcus Cole – “Interventionist Roots of the Financial Crisis of 2008-09″ |
| 6:30pm – 7:00pm | Reception |
| 7:00pm – 9:00pm | Dinner speaker, Veronique de Rugy – “The Growing Threats to Financial Privacy” |
| Wednesday, July 29 | |
| 8:00am – 9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Tibor Machan – “Rights as Bulwarks Against Abuse and Tyranny” |
| 10:30am – 10:45am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:45am – 12:15pm | Veronique de Rugy – “The Irrationality of Statist Responses to Crises” |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Marcus Cole – “Law, Economics and the Bailout Impulse” |
| 3:30pm – 6:00pm | Free Time |
| 6:00pm – 7:00pm | Reception |
| 7:00pm – 9:00pm | Dinner speaker, Randal O’Toole – “Planning vs. Order” |
| Thursday, July 30 | |
| 8:00am – 9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Robert McDonald – “Responses for Crises: The Political Made Personal” |
| 10:30am – 10:45am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:45am – 12:15pm | David Boaz – “The Rebirth of Liberty Amidst War and Depression” |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Tom Palmer – “Freedom in a Historical Perspective” |
| 3:30pm – 3:45pm | Refreshment Break |
| 3:45pm – 5:00pm | Dan Mitchell, “Leviathan on a Diet: Tax Competition and Restraints on State Power” |
| 6:30pm – 7:00pm | Reception |
| 7:00pm – 9:00pm | Dinner speaker, David Boaz – “The Perils of Statism and the Promise of Freedom” |
| Friday, July 31 | |
| 8:00am – 9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Tom Palmer – “What Citizens Can Do to Protect Liberty” |