Next week I’ll be in Argentina to give four invited talks.
August 18: Buenos Aires, conference on my recently-translated book Explicando el Posmodernismo, la crisis del socialismo, with comments by Guillermo Yeatts and Eduardo Marty. My talk title: “Populists and Postmoderns: How Philosophy Empowers Bad Politics.”
August 18. Leading a roundtable discussion on “Why the Free Society Needs a New Ethics.” Background reading for participants is Nobel-Prize winner James M. Buchanan’s “Saving the Soul of Classical Liberalism” (2000).
August 19: Talk Title: “Why Free-Market Arguments (Almost) Always Lose the Debate.”
August 22-23, in Rosario at the Sixth International Conference on the Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century.
My topic: “Progress and Betrayal — Latin American Intellectuals and the Difference between North and Latin American Economies.”
Abstract: The richest Latin American nations are only 25% as wealthy as Canada and the United States. Why is this? Some blame imperialism, a lack of resources, corrupt politicians, and/or crony businesses. All of those can be problems, but none of them is the most serious economic obstacle Latin Americans face—which is an intellectual class trapped in a narrow and self-destructive ideology. In this talk, Stephen Hicks discusses the philosophical differences between North and Latin America, which are crucial for explaining the economic differences.
Thanks very much to Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual (FRI), Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA), Fundacion Atlas 1853, and the Bases Foundation for making this trip possible.