Summer University 2023

Thursday July 20

19:00 Welcoming cocktail
(Hotel Aquabella, 2 rue des étuves)

Welcoming speech by Prof. Pierre Garello
Dr. Jean-Philippe Delsol: "The crisis of Liberalism"
Keynote speech by H.S.H. Michael of Liechtenstein: "Necessity and benefits of Crises"

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Friday July 21

8:30 : Coffee & Croissants
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Grand Hall.
(Plenary sessions with simultaneous translations)

9:00 - 9:10. Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Jean-Baptiste Perrier.
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

9:10 - 10:30. Plenary session 1: A typology of crises and of their implications

Moderator: Pierre Garello (Aix-Marseille University, IES Europe)

Speakers:
- Steven Davies (Institute of Economic Affairs): "Global Catastrophic Risk and the Institutions of Liberty"
- Jean-Philippe Feldman (SciencePo Paris and ALEPS): "Hayek, epidemics and the Covid crisis management"
- Jean-Claude Gruffat (Competitive Enterprise Institute): "Financial crisis and regulatory overkill?"

10:30 - 11:00. Break

11:00 - 12:20. Plenary session 2: Environment and energy: crisis or evolution?
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

Moderator: Christian Nasulea (IES Europe, University of Bucharest)
Speakers:
- Erwan Queinnec (University Paris 13): "Reason, Undreason and Climate changes"
- Renaud Fillieule (University of Lille): "Ecological Economics".
- Gregory Rehmke (Economic Thinking): "The Energy Race: Innovations and Institutions for Cleaner, More Reliable and Affordable Energy"

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
(L'Escargot, 10 avenue Winston Churchill)

14:15 - 15:30. Parallel sessions 1 (English and French)

> How States have reacted to the Covid crisis (in English)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

Moderator: Pierre Bentata
Speakers:
- Daniel Dufort (Montréal Economic Institute): "The case of Québec"
- Christian Nasulea (University of Bucharest and IES Europe) : "A Romanian perspective"
- Gabriel Mursa (University of Iasi, Romania): "Covid Crisis, State and Inflation"

> Comment les Etats ont réagi à la crise du Covid (in French)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater Mirabeau (Ground floor)

Moderator: Elodie Messéant
Speakers:

- Nouh El Harmouzi (University of Kénitra et Centre Arabe pour la Recherche Economique): "Le cas du Maroc"
- Nicolas Lecaussin (Director of IREF): "Le cas de la France"
- Radu Nechita (Cluj Babej Boya University): "Une perspective roumaine"

15:45 - 17:00. Parallel sessions 2 (English and French)

> The role of experts in preventing and responding to crisis (in English)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

Moderator: Enrico Colombatto
Speakers:
- Sergio Beraldo (University of Napoli Federico II): "Experts and the 'as judged by themselves' principle"
- Agnieszka Słomka-Gołębiowska (Warsaw school of economics): "Capitalism and Crisis: how to fix them"
- Elisabeth Krecké (Aix-Marseille University): "Expertise and complexity"

> Le rôle des experts pour prévenir les crises et réagir face à la crise (in French)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater Mirabeau (Ground floor)

Moderator: Nicolas Lecaussin
Speakers:

- François Facchini (Economiste, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): "L'ultime pouvoir, le monopole de la science"
- Daniela Piana (University of Bologna): "Liberté, égalité, expertise : le cas du numérique"
- Alain Mathieu (ALEPS): "Steven Koonin: parcours d'un expert atypique"

17:00 - 17:45. Keynote speech by Prof. David Schmidtz: "Purpose in crisis"
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

19:00 - 21:00 Cocktail at the City Hall
(Place de la Mairie, Aix-en-Provence)

Speeches by Prof. Em. Gérard Bramoullé, Vice-Mayor of the City of Aix-en-Provence, Dominique Augey, Deputy Mayor of the City of Aix-en-Provence
and Professor Em. Jacques Garello, founder of the Summer University

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Saturday July 22

8:30 : Coffee & Croissants

(Plenary sessions with simultaneous translations)

9:00 - 10:20. Plenary session 3: Money and finance: from disorder to order
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

Moderator: Nathalie Janson (Neoma Business School)
Speakers:
- Nathalie Janson (NEOMA Business School) : "Does the longevity of fiat-monetary based system has to do with the financialization of the economy?"
- George Selgin (Cato Institute): "The Case for Fractional Reserve Banking"
- Antoine Gentier (Aix-Marseille University): "Perspectives on Inflation"
- Yorick de Mombynes (French National Audit Office): "Bitcoin: Which credibility?

10:20 - 11:00. Break

11:00 - 12:20. Plenary session 4: Crises, public finance and the crisis of public finance
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

Moderator: Adam Bartha (Epicenter)

Speakers:
- Henri Lepage: ""Global money," debt and public finances"
- Karl-Friedrich Israel (Saarland University in Saarbrücken): "Monetary expansion creates wealth inequalities"
- Bob Lyddon (Consultant): "InvestEU, Net Zero and the growing debt of EU citizens"

12:30 - 14:00. Lunch
(L'Escargot)

14:15 - 15:30. Parallel sessions 3 (English and French)

> New technologies: threats and opportunities (in English)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

Moderator: Kerry Halferty Hardy
Speakers:
- Pierre Garello (Aix Marseille University and IES Europe) : "New Technologies and Competition as a Discovery Procedure"
- Philipp Dapprich (University of Postdam): "Cybersocialism and the future of the socialist calculation debate"
- Nikolai Wenzel (Fayetteville State University): "Big Data, Quantum Computing, and the Economic Calculation Debate: Will Roasted Cyberpigeons Fly into the Mouths of the Comrades?"

> Faut-il redouter les nouvelles technologies? (in French)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater Mirabeau (Ground floor)

Moderator: Nouh El Harmouzi
Speakers:
- Nathan Bonnet, Institut Sapiens: "IA et prise de parole en public"
- Daniil Gorbatenko (Center for Industrial Progress): "AI et liberté"
- Jean-Pierre Chamoux (Paris-Descartes University) : "Interdire la technique ? Une question purement réthorique"

15:45 - 17:00. Parallel sessions 4 (English and French)

> About cultural crisis (in English)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

Moderator: Emmanuel Martin
Speakers:
- Lord Syed Kamall (Former minister and MEP, Institute of Economic Affairs): "Welfare beyond the state: towards personal responsibility"
- Simone Sepe (University of Arizona) and Saura Mascalone (Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Univ of Arizona): "Moral Capitalism, Ethical Shareholderism, Social Cohesion"
- Cathleen Johnson (University of West Virginia): “Time preferences are not income dependent: Evidence from the lab”

> Des crises culturelles (in French)
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater Mirabeau (Ground floor)

Moderator: Pierre Garello
Speakers:
- Jean-Philippe Delsol (IREF) : "Crise et nature humaine dans l’histoire et la littérature"
- Pierre Bentata (Aix-Marseille University): "Le malaise de la jeunesse occidentale"
- Philippe Nemo (ESCP Europe): "Culture littéraire et liberté : pourquoi elles ne peuvent se passer l’une de l'autre"

17:00 - 17:45. Keynote speech by Prof. Mario Rizzo (New York University): "The Antipaternalist psychology of William James"
Faculté de Droit, 3 avenue Schuman, Bâtiment Pouillon, Amphitheater David (2nd floor)

19:00 - 19:30. Bus departures

Speech by Anna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian Students for Freedom)

Paella & Music evening
Mas de Vaureilles, Puyricard

23:30 - 0:30. Bus returns.

For any question email us at: su@ies-europe.org