Speakers

  Dr. Andreas Bergh, the Ratio Institute and Lund University - an economist and an expert on the welfare state as well as on theories of justice and cooperation.

 

 Professor Geoffrey Brennan, Australian National University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - one of the world's leading social scientists, working on issues at the intersection of economics, rationality, political philosophy.

 

  Professor James Buchanan, George Mason University - the 1986 recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, one of the world's leading economists, having pioneered and expanded the fields of public choice and constitutional economics as well as contributing greatly to contractarian political philosophy.

 

  Professor Bryan Caplan, George Mason University - an economist who has done seminal work on the role rationality and irrationality plays in politics.

 

  Professor Tyler Cowen, George Mason University - an economist with expertise in areas such as monetary theory, culture, fame and anarchy.

 

Associate Professor Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, the Ratio Institute - an economist working on central-bank institutions, taxation and enterprise, and retail-trade economics. 

 

  Professor Richard Epstein, University of Chicago - a legal scholar working in fields like law and economics, constitutional law and property law.


  Professor Bruno Frey, University of Zurich - an economist working with public choice, happiness research, the economics of the arts, and more.

  Dr. Karen Horn, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft - an economist and writer who has worked on public finance, public choice, ethics, history of thought, economics of the media and Nobel laureates in economics.

  Professor Daniel Klein, George Mason University - an economist doing work on transportation, ideological migration, political opinions of academics, the state of the economics profession, and more.

 Professor Assar Lindbeck, Stockholm University - Sweden's leading economist, having done original work in e.g. labor economics, political economy and the economics of social norms. He is an expert on the Swedish model.

  Professor Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illionois at Chicago - an economist, economic historian, historian of ideas, and more, focusing on the economic history of Britain, the rhetoric of economics, the use of statistics in economics, and virtues.

 

Saint-Paul   Professor Gilles Saint-Paul, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulose - an economist with expertise about labor markets, how they work and how they are affected by various policies.

 

  Professor Stefan Voigt, University of Marburg - an economist with a solid research record on the importance of the rule of law, institutional economics, and constitutional change.