The latest SDAE news and information
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce the winners of the Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition. Three prizes are given, each worth $1000, to be used to pay expenses to attend the Southern Economic Association meetings this November in San Antonio, TX, where the winners will present their work on a special panel at 10:00am, Saturday, November 21, 2009. Prize awards are contingent on attending the SEA meetings and the SDAE’s annual business meeting and awards banquet.
This year's winners are:
Chad Seagren
George Mason University
"Agent Based Modeling and Austrian Analysis of Accident Law"
Arash Molavi Vasséi
University of Hohenheim
"Static Tools for Dynamic Analysis: Ludwig von Mises’s Business Cycle Theory"
David Skarbek
George Mason University
"Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison"
San Antonio, TX November 21-23, 2009 (Sat-Mon)
We now are able to provide you with more detailed information on the SDAE dinner in San Antonio at the SEA meetings.
The dinner will take place on Sunday evening November 22nd, starting with a cash bar from 6:30pm-7:30pm and then continuing with dinner and our program from 7:30pm-10pm. The dinner will be held in the host hotel - the Marriott Rivercenter - in Salon D, although the room may change.
In addition to the presentation of the FEE prizes and recognition of the Lavoie Prize winners, we will also have Emily Chamlee-Wright's presidential address "Qualitative Methods and the Pursuit of Economic Understanding" and our usual business meeting.
The cost this year will be the same as last year: $85 (with grad students at half price). That price includes two free drink tickets. The drinks and the graduate student subsidy are courtesy of a generous grant from the Reason Foundation.
The menu consists of:
Rolls
A caprese salad
Your choice of:
Center cut NY strip steak OR
Atlantic salmon with green onion crust OR
Vegetarian strudel
German chocolate cake with burnt orange sauce and fresh strawberries
Coffee and tea
If you know that you will be attending, you click here and email that information to the Society. When you reply, please let us know if you prefer beef, salmon, or the vegetarian entree. Payment in advance by check or Federal Reserve Notes is not required but happily accepted via snail mail. You can also pay either way at the door. Checks can be sent to:
Peter Lewin
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
7708 Queens Garden
Dallas, TX 75248
We do not take credit cards.
In order to meet the hotel's deadline for a guaranteed number, we need a response by Monday, November 16th if you plan to attend. We will also, as usual, keep a few extra meals for walk-ins.
Finally, please do not ask us to reserve you a space and then decide last-minute not to attend. We had a problem with a couple of people doing this last year, and doing so costs us the dinner if we cannot find walk-ins to take the spot. We have always relied on the honor system with this dinner and we would not like to have to require a deposit in advance, so please let us know by the 11/16 deadline if you have reserved a spot and know you cannot or will not attend.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to others you know who may be attending the meetings.
2009 FEE Prizes in Austrian Economics
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2009 Foundation for Economic Education Prizes for the best book and the best article recently published in Austrian economics. The following conditions apply:
1. Authors nominated must be members in good standing with the SDAE.
2. The books and articles nominated must have been published between January 1, 2007 and August 31, 2009.
3. Nominated articles should be emailed as an attachment or its URL sent to Christopher Coyne.
4. Nominations for the book prize should include the title and all other relevant information (publisher, date of publication, ISBN #) and be sent to the above email address. Those nominating books need not send copies. Edited volumes and short monographs are not eligible for the award.
5. All nominations must be received no later than October 19, 2009.
6. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
Each prize comes with a cash award of $500 thanks to the generous support of the Foundation for Economic Education. Winners will be announced at the annual banquet of the SDAE, this year in San Antonio, TX in conjunction with the Southern Economic Association Meeting from November 21 – 23, 2009.
SDAE Listserv Information
The Society is happy to announce the creation of a scholarly listserv devoted to the Austrian school of economics. The "AustrianEcon" listserv is devoted to the ideas of the Austrian school of economics and related contributions to the understanding of human action and its consequences. We aim for as broad a discussion as possible across any disciplines or schools of thought that relate to Austrian economics. It must be emphasized that the listserv is not a forum for political discussion except to the degree that such issues have a direct connection to the scholarly contributions of the Austrian school both past and present.
Membership in the list is subject to the approval of the list manager. Membership will be limited to those affiliated with universities, think-tanks, or other scholarly/intellectual organizations. Exceptions for those not so affiliated will be granted on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the list manager. SDAE members are automatically eligible for membership. You can request to join the list by emailing the list manager Steve Horwitz at sghorwitz@stlawu.edu .
We strongly encourage members to use the list as a vehicle for the dissemination of their current scholarship. In particular, discussion of working papers is a very valuable use of the listserv. Any members wishing to make a paper available for discussion should contact the list manager and the paper will be posed at the SDAE website for list members to access. Austrian analyses of current contributions to the mainstream economics literature are also strongly encouraged as is discussion of current work in related disciplines (e.g., evolutionary psychology, political science, history, etc.) or traditions in economics (e.g., constitutional political economy, public choice, or various heterodox schools etc.) of which members might be less aware.
AustrianEcon is a moderated listserv. All messages require approval of the list manager.
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