Schedule
Breakfast for all days is available as a hot buffet at the hotel or continental style at the conference site. Shuttles will transport conferees from hotel to conference site at 15 minute intervals from 8:00 to 8:45am.
Thursday: (Travel day – Attendance is not required at any of these events)
Meet and greet for early arrivals, 5:00 – 6:00pm
Dinner at Lovin’ Cup (near hotel) – 6:30 – 8:30
Hospitality in hotel – 8:30 – 10:30
Friday:
9:00 – 10:30
PANEL 1: Cities
Chair: Lauren Hall
Wendell Cox, (discussant: Sandy Ikeda)
Pierre Desrochers, Jane Jacobs as spontaneous order theorist: induction and evolutionary metaphors (discussant: Nurit Alfasi)
Sandy Ikeda, A city cannot be a work of art (discussant: David Andersson)
11:00 – 12:30
PANEL 2: Political Economy: Perspectives from China, Israel and the United States
Chair: David Andersson
Nurit Alfasi, The coding turn in urban and regional planning (discussant: Pierre Desrochers)
Jason Potts, (discussant: Chor Yung Cheung)
Lynne Kiesling, Understanding the effect of 20th century regulation on 21st century experimentation and technological change in electricity markets (discussant: Chee Kian Leong)
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 – Roundtable on Adam Smith
3:15 – 4:30 – Roundtable on spontaneous orders and interdisciplinary work (students strongly encouraged)
4:30 – 6:30 – Cocktail reception and keynote address by Professor Mario Rizzo
7 – 9:30 – Dinner
9:30 – ? – Hospitality in hotel
Saturday:
9:00 – 10:30
PANEL 3: Theoretical Approaches I, Smith and Montesquieu
Chair: Laurent Dobuzinskis
Pavel Kuchar, Mirrors to one another: sympathy and social norms
(discussant: Leslie Marsh)
Sarah Mackenzie Burns, Montesquieu and capitalist peace theory (discussant: Gus diZerega)
11:00 – 12:30
PANEL 4: Theoretical Approaches II, Hayek and Oakeshott
Chair: Chor Yung Cheung
Paul Lewis, The emergence of ’emergence’ in the work of F.A. Hayek: an historical analysis (discussant: Steve Horwitz)
Chor Yung Cheung, From the division of labour to the division of knowledge: the role of reason in the thought of Smith and Hayek (discussant: Paul Lewis)
Callahan on Oakeshott and Hayek (discussant: Leslie Marsh)
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 – Executive committee meets (free afternoon for conferees)
4:00 – 5:30
PANEL 5: Democracy and Citizenship
Chair: Sarah Burns
Troy Camplin, Democracy, postmodernism and spontaneous order (discussant: Gus diZerega)
Thomas Cheeseman, Political escapism, micro-politics and spontaneous order (discussant: Laurent Dobuzinskis)
Steve Horwitz, Spontaneous orders and self-governance: the importance of unsupervised childhood play (discussant: Lauren Hall)
7 – 9:00 – Dinner
9 – ? – Hospitality