January 31–February 2 | Co-sponsored by IHS and The Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University
Immigration
Technology and Freedom
Explore such topics as:
The Decline of U.S.
Economic Freedom
Markets for human organs
Register by January 24 at:
TheIHS.org/Liberty-Applied
Faculty
Dr. Robert A. Lawson holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Endowed Centennial Chair in Economic
Freedom in the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom in the Cox School of Business at
Southern Methodist University. He is co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom of the World
annual reports, published by the Fraser Institute, which present an economic freedom index for over
140 countries.
Jeffrey Tucker serves as distinguished fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, Executive
Editor of Laissez Faire Books, research fellow of the Acton Institute, and CEO of the social network
startup Liberty.me. He is the founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, serves as economic
consultant to the popular podcast Let’s Talk Bitcoin, and writes a fortnightly column for Crisis
Magazine. He is author of Bourbon for Breakfast, It’s a Jetson’s World, and A Beautiful Anarchy, and
thousands of articles, introductions, and prefaces.
Dr. Benjamin Powell is the inaugural Director of the Free Market Institute and Visiting Professor in
the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. He is the North American Editor of the
Review of Austrian Economics. He is also editor of Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process
of Development, co-editor of Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis and author of the upcoming
Cambridge University Press book Sweatshops: Improving Lives and Economic Growth.
Dr. James Stacey Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey.
Branded a heretic by the London Times for his arguments in favor of legalizing markets in human
organs in his book Stakes and Kidneys: Why markets in human organs are morally imperative, he is also the
author of Practical Autonomy and Bioethics, and Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics. He is the editor
of Personal Autonomy: New essays and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics. He is currently working on a book
defending markets in everything, including votes and children.
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
FREE MARKET INSTITUTE AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
LIBERTY APPLIED: CURRENT EVENTS &
CONTROVERSIES
LUBBOCK, TEXAS
JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 2, 2014
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31ST
4:00 – 4:30 PM
REGISTRATION
RAWLS ATRIUM
4:30 – 5:00 PM
INTRODUCTION
BEN POWELL, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
BETHANY ERBER, INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
ROOM #101
5:00 – 6:15 PM
THE RISE AND DECLINE OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM IN THE
UNITED STATES
ROBERT LAWSON, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
ROOM #101
6:15 – 7:15 PM
DINNER
RAWLS ATRIUM
7:15 – 8:30 PM
WHY MARKETS IN HUMAN ORGANS SHOULD BE LEGAL
JAMES STACEY TAYLOR, THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
ROOM #101
8:30 – 9:30 PM
RECEPTION
RAWLS ATRIUM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST
9:00 – 10:00 AM
BREAKFAST
RAWLS ATRIUM
10:00 – 11:15 AM
THE GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF GIZMOS OVER
GOVERNMENT
JEFFREY TUCKER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, LAISSEZ FAIRE BOOKS
ROOM #101
11:15 – 11:30 PM
BREAK
11:30 – 12:45 PM
A CASE FOR OPEN BORDERS
BEN POWELL, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
ROOM #101
12:45 – 2:00 PM
LUNCH
RAWLS ATRIUM
2:00 – 3:15 PM
ECONOMIC FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
ROBERT LAWSON, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
ROOM #101
3:15 – 3:30 PM
BREAK
3:30 – 4:45 PM
MILL’S HARM PRINCIPLE IN HARD CASES
JAMES STACEY TAYLOR, THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
ROOM #101
4:45 – 5:45 PM
DINNER
RAWLS ATRIUM
5:45 – 7:00 PM
WHY YOU SHOULD LOVE, NOT FEAR, THE COMING
ANARCHY
JEFFREY TUCKER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, LAISSEZ FAIRE BOOKS
ROOM #101
7:00 – 7:30 PM
CLOSING REMARKS
BEN POWELL, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
BETHANY ERBER, INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
ROOM #101
7:30 – 9:00 PM
RECEPTION
RAWLS ATRIUM