“Europe & Liberty” Summer Seminar in Bansko, Bulgaria 2019

When? July 28th – August 3rd 2019

Organized together with the Institute for Market Economics, the seminar in Bansko is a great opportunity for students to acquire knowledge on the foundations of liberty.

Note that for the selected students, accommodations and attendance to the conferences are free. Participants will only need to fund their transportation.

Faculty will include: Krassen Stanchev (economics), Douglas Rasmussen (philosophy), Pierre Garello (economics of law), Christian Nasulea (economics). More lecturers to be announced.

Thanks to to a specific grant from the Charles Koch Foundation, a number US students that will be selected will be offered an $800 travel stipend. To be eligible, those US students must be finishing their Bachelor’s degree or currently working on their Master’s Degree but not yet enrolled in a PHD program. Students need to have serious plans to pursue a PHD for the purpose of pursuing an academic career.

The application process starts on 15th of March

Speakers

Petar Ganev

Senior Economist

Institute for Market Economics

After graduating from the University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria, he joined the Institute for Market Economics (IME) as a senior economist. Petar is an IES-Europe Alumnus as he took part to an IES-Europe Summer Seminar in Varna, Bulgaria in 2005. In 2011, thanks to his help, IES-Europe was able to go back to Bulgaria after 5 years of absence. Petar was the link between IES-Europe and IME as a local organizer.

Krassen Stanchev

Professor in Public Choice and Macroeconomic Analysis

Institute for Market Economics

Dr Krassen Stanchev is a Board Chairman, Founder and former Executive Director of The Institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria’s first free market think tank (1993), former member and a committee chairman of the Constitutional Assembly (1990-1991), one of the most quoted Bulgarian observers, best country analyst award for 1996 by Euromoney and a nominee for Bulgaria’s Mr. Ekonomika 2004 as well as laureate of Bulgaria Government Prize – 2002, Templeton – 2006 – as IME Director, and GV Fund for Contribution to the Spirit of Liberty – 2006.

Carlo Lottieri

Professor of Philosophy

University of Siena

Carlo Lottieri is currently Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Siena and Professor of Philosophy of Social Sciences at Facoltà di Teologia in Lugano (Switzerland). Fellow of many institutions, he is the Director of Political Theory department of the Istituto Bruno Leoni. His writings develop a radical libertarianism combining a strong emphasis on the inviolability of other people and a realistic approach to the modern State. His interests cover Federalism, Libertarianism, Political Theology, Military Ethics, Elitism, Evolutionary Theory of Law, Commons and Private Property.

Douglas B. Rasmussen

Professor of Philosophy

St. John's University New York

Douglas B. Rasmussen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in NYC and Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Menard Family Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Among the books he has co-authored (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) are: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991); Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2006); and The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics (2016).

Christian Năsulea

Professor of Economics

University of Bucharest

Christian Năsulea teaches Economics at the Department of International Relations and Universal History at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe and a fellow of the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues. His areas of research interest include public policy and stimuli for economic development, political and commercial negotiation in international relations, behavioural economics and decision processes.

Pierre Garello

Professor of Economics

Universite Aix-Marseille

President of IES-Europe and Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines and Journal des Libertés, Pierre Garello is Professor of Economics at the Faculté d’Economie et Gestion of Aix Marseille University in France. He has published various articles on Austrian economics, law and economics (especially competition law and contract law). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, a scholarly review dealing with economic, legal, philosophical and political issues, in the tradition of the French Classical Liberal School.