Nov. 9, 2012

If you haven’t ordered your ticket, click  here to join us next Friday at the Charlie Creek Inn for a seminar on how the citizens of Indiana can get their economies running again.

The all-day format provides time for discussion of side issues, participation in question-and-answer sessions and one-on-ones with the experts. We are sending a special invitation to freshmen legislators.

Session leaders

• John Andrews, director of the Centennial Institute
• Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D., professor of economics, Ball State University
• Tad DeHaven, analyst on federal and state budget issues for the Cato Institute
• Byron S. Lamm, the Indiana Policy Review Foundation
• James E. McClure, Ph.D., professor of economics, Ball State University
• Eric Schansberg, Ph.D., professor of economics, Indiana University at New Albany
• Tyler Watts, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics, Ball State University

Topics/schedule

• 9 a.m. 9:15 a.m. — Lamm: Introduction
• 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. — Schansberg  (economic history): “Cliff Notes: The Tax-and-Spend Cliff, the Healthcare Cliff, the Social-Order Cliff”
• 10:30  to 11:30 a.m. — McClure  (business cycle theory): “Hayek’s Business Cycle Theory: How We Got Into This Mess, and What to NOT Do to Get Out!”
• Noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch/Foundation Message by Bohanon  (public choice): “Why ‘Good Politics’ Rejects ‘Good Economics’”
• 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. — Watts  (monetary policy): “The Federal Reserve: Enabling Bad Habits Since 1913”
• 2:15  to  3:15 p.m. — DeHaven  (subsidies/cronyism): “Economic Development Subsidies: The Crony Capitalist Next Door”
• 3:30 p.m.: Keynote/Closing — Andrews (civic virtues/ bourgeois values): “What Now, Conservatives?”
• (Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres)