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AERC RALPH RAICO MEMORIAL

COMMENCEMENT LECTURE
“Economics from the Ground Up:
Intellectual Community in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence”
Austrian Economics Dr . Timothy D . Terrell
Research Conference

LUDWIG VON MISES
The Austrian Economics Research Conference MEMORIAL LECTURE
(AERC) is the international, interdisciplinary “Whither Goest the Entrepreneur”
Dr . Robert F . Hébert
meeting of the Austrian School of economics, SPONSORED BY YOUSIF ALMOAYYED
bringing together leading scholars to present
research in this vibrant intellectual tradition . Each
year, the conference is hosted by the Mises Institute
at our campus in Auburn, Alabama, and is directed MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
MEMORIAL LECTURE
by Dr . Joseph Salerno, Academic Vice President of “Defending Private Property:
the Mises Institute . In 2023, 122 faculty, observers, Principles of Justice in Rothbard’s
and students attended memorial lectures, scholarly Ethics of Liberty”
research presentations, and panels addressing a Dr . Wanjiru Njoya
full range of topics in Austrian economics . SPONSORED BY STEVEN AND
CASSANDRA TORELLO
HENRY HAZLITT
AWARD-WINNING FACULTY MEMORIAL LECTURE
RESEARCH AT AERC “ESC en Route to Etatism”
Dr . Allen Mendenhall
SPONSORED BY HARVEY AND MEI ALLISON
During AERC, the Mises Institute recognizes the
best academic journal articles of the year through
the Lawrence W . Fertig and the O .P . Alford III Prizes .
The Fertig Prize goes to the scholar who has most F. A. HAYEK
MEMORIAL LECTURE
advanced economic science in the Austrian tradition “The Other Covid Crisis: Prospects
and the Alford Prize to the scholar who has made for Recovery from Pandemic
the greatest contribution to libertarian scholarship . Policies”
Dr . Nicholas N . Eberstadt
SPONSORED BY GREG AND JOY MORIN
The O. P. Alford III
Prize was awarded Visit mises.org/AERC2023 to listen to the
to Peter G . Klein and memorial lectures.
Nicolai J . Foss for
their paper “Why Do KENNETH GARSCHINA GRADUATE
Companies Go Woke?” STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST
First place: João Fernando Rossi Mazzoni (Baylor University)
The Lawrence W. “The Sharing Economy and Subjective Value—a Conceptual
Fertig Prize was Framework Proposition for the Ridesharing Services”
awarded to Karl- Second place: Robert Aro (Mises Graduate School)
Friedrich Israel “The Instability of Stablecoins”
for his paper “The
Monetary Theories Third place: Anthony J . Cesario (Loyola University)
of Carl Menger and “The Modern Worker Cooperative Movement: A Critical
Friedrich von Wieser: A Analysis”
Comparative Study .” Honorable mention: Jeffery Degner (Angers University)
“Monetary Interventionism’s Role in the ‘Luxurification’
of the Traditional Nuclear Family”

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