Seminars

Steve Hanke Lecture on Money, Banking and Markets | Almost exactly 10 years ago, amid the rapidly worsening ‘subprime mortgage crisis’, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., was forced to file for bankruptcy. Shortly thereafter, actually within hours AIG collapsed, triggered a run on most money-market funds, which accelerated a cash crunch and ultimately not only wrecked […]

Everything you always wanted to know about the Austrian School of Economics by Alvino-Mario Fantini Speaking about Austrian Economics—or, rather, ‘the Austrian Tradition’—is often met with raised eyebrows.  It’s not just that the vast majority of people are unacquainted with this tradition. It’s more a consequence of having been purposefully ignored by the leading departments of […]

Daniel Issing – blog author at studentsforliberty.org – reflects on the seminar ‘Semantic Traps: Politics with Loaded Terms’. It was held on June 9-11, 2016 in Vaduz (FL). Every libertarian is well aware of the odd name defenders of individual freedom use to label their position nowadays. In fact, the word “libertarianism” is a fairly […]

Bericht von Georg Winder* “Semantic Traps” – Haben Sie sich schon einmal bewusst gemacht, wie viele der uns geläufigen Begriffe bereits so umgedeutet wurden, dass diese beabsichtigt oder nicht, kaum noch dem Inhalt entsprechen, den wir eigentlich ausdrücken wollten? Gerade im politischen Diskurs sind diese «Sprachfallen» zuweilen gefährlich und bedrohen zunehmend unsere bürgerlichen Freiheiten. Um […]

Semantic Traps: Politics with Loaded Terms A Seminar for Scholars, Journalists and Entrepreneurs “One must always repeat the truth, because even the error around us is preached again and again. And not from individuals but from the crowd.” J.W. von Goethe When political speech writers pen speeches for presidents, prime ministers, and other influential dignitaries, […]