My wife and I returned from Las Vegas late last night after attending
FreedomFest 2012, a (mostly) libertarian conference organized by libertarian economist
Mark Skousen. I say "mostly" because there were a few sessions that were clearly partisan, pro-Mitt Romney, pro-Republicans, but these were exceptions. Here're some thoughts on the panels that I enjoyed, and pictures of some people I met.
Day 1, Wednesday, Pre-Conference
Mark Skousen did a presentation on the
Austrian School of economics, talking about
Menger,
Bohm-Bawerk,
Mises, and
Rothbard. Giving his opinion of each of their contributions to the tradition, recommending different books of theirs, etc. Skousen is definitely in Austrian himself, though he mentioned that his new textbook,
Economic Logic, is not "pure" enough to
Gary North. I forgot to ask him exactly why North would think this.
We were at the conference because Skousen personally invited my wife and I. I included
an essay of his in my book,
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