The speakers of the 2009 MPS meeting in Stockholm will present original, unpublished papers. Here, they are presented per session. We recommend that you print all papers, read them in advance to enhance the quality of the discussions in the breakout sessions, and bring them to the conference (where only a few paper copies will be available).
Please do not cite or quote these papers without the permission of the authors.
Session 1
- James Buchanan: "The Constitutionalization of Money"
- Sven-Olov Daunfeldt: "Do High Taxes Lock In Captial Gains? Evidence from a Dual Income Tax System"
- Tyler Cowen: "Does Technology Drive the Growth of Government?"
- Richard Epstein: "Property Rights and the Rule of Law: Classical Liberalism Confronts the Modern Administrative State"
- Stefan Voigt: "Determinants of Constitutional Change: When and Why Do Countries Change Their Form of Government?"
- Gilles Saint-Paul: "The Welfare State and the Rise of Paternalism"
- Daniel Klein: "The Ideological Migration of Intellectuals"
- Bruno Frey: "A Tsunami-Idea: 'Universities Are Like Firms'" (there is no paper for this talk)
- Deirdre McCloskey: "Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World"
- Geoffrey Brennan: "Achieving Political Change in the Welfare State: A Case for Moderation"
- Bryan Caplan: "Persuasion, Slack, and Traps: How Can Economists Change the World?"
- Andreas Bergh:"Welfare State Reform without Retrenchment: Describing and Explaining
Political Change in Sweden 1980-2000"
Special Sessions
- Assar Lindbeck: "Three Swedish Models" (there is no paper for this talk, but please find one related paper here and another one here)
- Karen Horn: "Roads to Wisdom: Some Inspirations from Nobel Laureates"
Presidential Address