AERC 2025

Keynes: IS-LM, Socialism, and Modern Macroeconomics

Edward W. Fuller — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:33:00 -0500

Was Keynesianism ever truly apolitical? In this rigorous lecture, Edward W. Fuller reexamines the IS-LM model through the lens of Keynes’s political writings and reveals how modern macroeconomics inherited not just a framework—but an ideology.

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Shone Sadler. Includes a welcome by Joseph T. Salerno.

The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian school, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual tradition. For more information, visit https://Mises.org.

From COVID Lockdowns to Exchange Rates, Capital Theory, and Monetary Policy

Steve H. Hanke — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:40:00 -0500

What do COVID lockdowns, currency collapses, and hyperinflation all have in common? According to Steve Hanke, they all reveal how central planners manipulate fear, money, and power to control society.

The Friedrich A. Hayek Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Jerry Dowell.

Considerations and Reflections of a Veteran Reactionary Libertarian

Hans-Hermann Hoppe — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:30:00 -0500

What does a “reactionary libertarian” really believe? In this provocative and unfiltered lecture, Hans-Hermann Hoppe reflects on war, empire, the Frankfurt School, Javier Milei, and why libertarians must reject both the left and the right to defend true freedom.

The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.

How Executive Power Can Dismantle the Deep State

Patrick Newman — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:30:00 -0500

Can executive power shrink the state instead of growing it? In this thought-provoking lecture, Patrick Newman offers a Jacksonian playbook for dismantling the deep state in our time.

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Steve and Cassandra Torello.

Anti-MMT Panel

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:30:00 -0500

Featuring Per Bylund, Lucas Engelhardt, Joshua Mawhorter, Jonathan Newman, Patrick Newman, and Joseph T. Salerno, this panel exposes flawed assumptions of Modern Monetary Theory, including the origins of money, government spending, job guarantees, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. The presenters critique MMT’s reliance on state-driven monetary policy, its neglect of entrepreneurship and capital formation, and its unrealistic view of labor and job guarantees.