Conservative Economic Quarterly Lecture Series /CEQLS/ means series of public lectures of worldwide well-known economists held by Conservative Institute quarterly in Bratislava since 2005.
Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik received prestigious 2009 Templeton Freedom Award in the Ethics and Values category for the implementation of a cycle of economic lectures CEQLS. Find out more here .
Overview of the CEQLS lectures realized so far is available below:
2018
December 6, 2018
Deirdre McCloskey: Capitalism is the Only Ethical System
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June 11, 2018
Leszek Balcerowicz: Good and Bad Transformation
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March 26, 2018
Robert Nef: The Welfare State in the Trap of Redistributionism
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2017
September 25, 2017
Tom G. Palmer: Varieties of Socialism and the Threat to Liberty and Social Cooperation
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April 25, 2017
Bart J. Wilson: Humanomics: A Moral Science of Economics
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2016
October 13, 2016
Jörg Guido Hülsmann: Financial Markets and the Wealth of Nations
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June 20, 2016
Patrick Michaels: Lukewarming | The New Climate Science that Changes Everything
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2015
September 24, 2015
Philip Booth: Death by demography: How Europe´s indebted welfare states will collapse
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June 1, 2015
Enrico Colombatto: The Moral Foundations of Free Market Economics
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2014
December 8, 2014
Milan Zelený:
New Global Trends: Deglobalization, Relocalization, Regionalization and Decentralization
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September 22, 2014
Madsen Pirie: Markets and Morals - a Natural Partnership
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April 7, 2014
Michael C. Munger: The Entrepreneurial Virtues
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2013
September 26, 2013
Anthony de Jasay: Egalitarianism as a Political Religion
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May 13, 2013
George A. Selgin: Privatization of Money
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March 12, 2013
Richard Ebeling: The Crisis of the Monetary-Fiscal Interventionist State
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2012
November 19, 2012
Hardy Bouillon: Why Social Justice is not Just
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September 18, 2012
Special CEQLS Lecture: Alejandro A. Chafuen: Christian Roots of the Free Society
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September 17, 2012
Alejandro A. Chafuen: Economic Freedom and Corruption
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June 11, 2012
Roland Vaubel:
Why Europe should not be centralised
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March 12, 2012
David Schmidtz: Tragedy of Commons. On Ecology and Economics
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2011
December 12, 2011
Shane Frith: Why State Healthcare Systems Are Failing
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September 26, 2011
Robert P. Murphy:
Money & Banking: State vs. Market
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June 13, 2011
Philipp Bagus: The Tragedy of the Euro
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March 28, 2011
Peter J. Boettke: Why Are Some Nations Rich and Others Poor?
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January 13, 2011
Steven Horwitz: Capitalism and the Family
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2010
September 20, 2010
Tim Evans: The Relevance of Classical Liberal Political Economy in Today´s World
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May 18, 2010
Charles Murray: Collapse of the Welfare State and the European Social Model
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March 22, 2010
Richard A. Epstein: Economic and Legal Foundations of a Free Society
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2009
November 23, 2009
Gene Smiley: Great Depression and Current Economic Crisis: Similarities and Differences
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September 28, 2009
Jesús Huerta de Soto: The Financial Crisis and the Economic Recession
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May 14, 2009
Samuel Gregg: The Financial Crisis: Government Intervention and Moral Failure
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2008
December 10, 2008
Marcel Guarnizo: Economics, Philosophy and Foundations of Democracy
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September 11, 2008
José Piñera: Private vs. Public Pension Systems
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June 12, 2008
Victoria Curzon-Price:
Managing Diversity and Competition in Switzerland: Lessons for Europe?
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March 17, 2008
Pierre Garello: Third Way as a Dead End: French Experience
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2007
December 7, 2007
Ľuboš Pástor: Chicago Economic School and Its Relevance to the Present
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June 28, 2007
Michael Novak: Economics, Ethics and the Crisis of the Welfare State
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March 21, 2007
Pascal Salin: Why We Need Capitalism and Competition
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2006
December 13, 2006
Josef Šíma: Property Rights vs. “Public Interest”
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October 23, 2006
Johnny Munkhammar: Copy the Nordic Solutions – Not the Problems!
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June 27, 2006
Richard W. Rahn: The Keys to Economic Growth and Freedom and the Role of the Government
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March 9, 2006
Ted Abram: The Sad History of Welfare in Modern America
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2005
December 8, 2005
William A. Niskanen: Alternative Political and Economic Futures for Europe
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October 17, 2005
Daniel J. Mitchell: Tax Competition and the European Union
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June 15, 2005
Marian L. Tupy: Slovakia and the Euro: No Need To Rush In
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