CEQLS Lecture | Deirdre McCloskey: Capitalism is the Only Ethical System
[11.12.2018, CEQLS]

Conservative Institute organised another of the CEQLS Lecture. Deirdre McCloskey, distinguished professor emerita of economics, history, English and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was our guest on December 6, 2018 in Bratislava.Video is available here.

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Tearing down the Myths about Socialism and the Welfare State
[25.02.2018, NEWS]

The project focuses on an actual and serious problem: socialism and welfare state myths in mutual connections and consequences of succumbing to these myths cause undermine the foundations of current societies.

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August 24, 2016: Tax Burden Release Day in Slovakia
[24.08.2016, PAPERS AND STUDIES]

In 2015, overall tax burden in Slovakia has reached as much as 61.1% of the real gross employee's average wage. This way, the Tax Burden Release Day in Slovakia was August 24 in 2016.

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Do Market Forces Select the Best Money?
[04.05.2013, George Selgin, CONSERVATIVE LETTERS]

According to Carl Menger, the founder of Austrian Economics, money started out as a product of spontaneous evolution, that is, as a result of human action but not of human design.

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Utilization of Eurofunds in Slovakia – An Opportunity for Growth or for Corruption and Clientelism?
[11.10.2012, Ivan Kuhn, Dušan Sloboda and Radovan Kazda, PAPERS AND STUDIES]

Nontransparent allocation and thefts within procurement procedures. Holding back of the information. Non-compliance with the senseless goal of regional disparities reduction. Politicians' prattles on the utilization. Doubtful efficiency and incredible wasting. This is also a way to perceive our first more than seven years of experience with the eurofunds.

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Why Europe should not be centralised
[14.06.2012, Roland Vaubel, LECTURES]

Read the lecture by Roland Vaubel, Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany), presented at the Conservative Economic Quarterly Lecture Series (CEQLS) held by the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik in Bratislava...

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Dezider Tóth receives Tatarka Award
[22.05.2012, DOMINIK TATARKA AWARD]

The 2011 Dominik Tatarka Award was presented to Dezider Tóth for his book I Am Not an Author, I Am a Metaphor in Bratislava on May 22, 2012...

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Conferences and Conservative Clubs
[01.01.2011, EVENTS]

Within the years 2001 – 2010, the Conservative Institute organised many events dealing with current social and political issues not only in Bratislava but in other Slovak cities as well...

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In Defense of the Free Market (2007)
[05.06.2007, Peter Gonda and Pavel Chalupníček, PUBLICATIONS]

Conservative Institute in co-operation with Liberalni institut, Prague, published a book of lectures of renowned free market oriented thinkers delivered within the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik Project “Conservative Economic Quarterly Lecture Series” (CEQLS) in Bratislava and Annual, Spring and Autumn Lectures of Liberalni Institut in Prague.

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Find out more about our main research areas
[03.07.2006, RESEARCH AREAS]

Foreign Policy and National Security, European Union Affairs, Economic Policy and Public Finance, Environmental Policy...

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Conservative Views on Society and Politics
[01.01.2003, CONSERVATIVE VIEWS ON SOCIETY AND POLITICS]

During the years 2000-2002, the Conservative Institute issued the magazine Conservative Views on Society and Politics...

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