The Seminar is titled after Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist that tutored Murray Rothbard and several important thinkers and is emerging as a significant event in the cultural life of contemporary classical liberalism, offering a distinguished audience to a few brilliant young libertarian scholars.

IBL will host eight young (under-35) researchers. Each scholar or team of scholars will present a paper to be posted on this website a few weeks before the date of the Seminar.

During the Seminar itself, the paper will be briefly presented by their respective authors and commented by a scholar from an academic or a research establishment and, immediately thereafter, will be discussed by the audience.

The Seminar will be held in English and attendance is open to all.

The Seventh Mises Seminar will be held in Sestri Levante (Italy), October 8-10

The theme discussed will be:
Big Government Strikes Back. The Struggle between the Market and the State in a Time of Crisis

The keynote speaker of this year's edition will be
Matt Ridley
author of The Origins of Virtue and The Rational Optimist

Call for Papers

Big Government Strikes Back. The Struggle between the Market and the State in a Time of Crisis


We call for young scholars to submit to our attention an essay for the Seminar
The topic can be investigated from the perspective of economics, philosophy, law, sociology, history, economic history.

Authors are invited to submit a proposal of about 500 words, in English to Dr Carlo Lottieri (carlo.lottieri@brunoleoni.it) not later than February 28th, 2010.

IBL will then select the best submissions and inform the candidates accordingly by March 30.
Conference paper (max. lenght 40.000 characters, in English) are to be submitted to IBL by July 1st 2010.

All travel and boarding expenses of the selected authors will be paid for by Istituto Bruno Leoni.