CADI-Eleutheria invites you to the workshop Austrian Economics for Start Ups: What Do Entrepreneurs Need to Know?, Monday May 18, 17:30. The discussion will take place at CADI’s office from Apartment 5 , mezzanine, 59 Jean Luis Calderon Street it will be held in English. Presented by: Prof. Anthony Evans, Associate Professor of Economics at
CADI-Eleutheria invites you to the “New Information Technologies and Crony Capitalism” workshop, Thursday, 31st July, at 1730. The discussion will take place at the CADI office from Apartment 5, mezzannine 59 Splaiul Independenței Street, Sector 2 and it will be held in English. Presentation by Vlad Tarko Text: attachment
Freedom is a term used in more than one context; each of us lives in such contexts, acts in them and meditates on them; we wish for better results in each of them: these depend on the way in which we understand and exercise our freedom and, having a deeper meaning, these depend on the
“Hayek’s view of democracy as a process of forming opinion is taken as a starting point for inquiring into issues largely neglected by Public Choice and Constitutional Economics. In an Austrian perspective, fallible individual knowledge, political entrepreneurs and dissenting minorities attain a distinctive role in the process of political competition. Based on the observation that
Why do remarkable variations among states in the rule of law, a set of stable political rules and rights applied impartilally to all citizens exist? How can we limit the abuse of power in democracy and what exactly represents the foundation of a functional democracy? The theory proposed by Weingast suggests that the state can
Despite of certain deregulations in the western economies starting with the 70s, the general tendency is not towards the classical liberal model, the sate still playing an important role as a supplier of services. A significant number of West Europe traditional social-democracies have turned into assisted deregulated states, the paradigmatic example being Sweden. An alternative
On Friday June 22nd, 6 pm at the Center for Institutional Analysis and Development,our special guest is Anthony Evans, Associate Professor of Economics at ESCP Europe Business School, London. His paper The Financial Crisis in the UK: Uncertainty, Calculation and Error „seeks to provide a distinctly Austrian interpretation of the financial crisis and subsequent recession that affected the
Vlad Tarko invites us at CADI, on Friday, 15th June 2012 at 1800, to take part in a discussion regarding the austerity policies in Romania between 2007 and 2011, starting from the chapter on Romania (draft) from the book Paul Dragos Aligica & Vlad Tarko, ‘The Uses of Austerity: Spending Cuts, Stimulus and Reform in
We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 3rd June at 1800, to a workshop about competition starting from a text written by Sorin Cucerai. The purpose of competition is the maximisation of the market share, not the well-being of the consumers, and this can be best observed in the case when the product is almost
We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 27th May 2011 at 1800 to take part in the discussion regarding the possibility and preference of the open society, starting from Willmoore Kendall’s text “The Open Society and Its Fallacies”. “Nobody wants all-out thought-control or the closed society; and nobody has any business pretending that somebody else
