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Schedule

Day 1

16 MARCH
SUNDAY
9:00 am

Registration Open

Camino Real Polanco Hotel


3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

Young Scholars Sessions at Universidad de la Libertad

Latin America 1: Violence, Security, and History of Libertarianism – chair: Martin Krause
  1. Joao Pedro Bastos – Political Violence in the Long Run: Evidence from a New Dataset of Latin American Dictatorships
  2. Marcos Falcone – Notes for a History of Latin American Libertarianism
  3. Tatiana Macias Muentes – Institutional Fragility and Security Plans in Ecuador: Effects on Security, the Economy, and Development (2014–2024)
Economic Freedom, Colonial Institutions, and Monopoly – chair: Charles Long
  1. Vincent Miozzi – Economic Freedom and Inequality: A Review of the Evidence
  2. Chandler Reilly – From Trade to Raid: Institutions and Anglo-Abenaki Relations in 17th Century Maine
  3. Ethan Yang – Attitudes About Monopoly and Antitrust: Enforcement and Public Opinion in America
4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
Latin America 2: Demography, Adoption, and Ecuadorian Constitution – chair: Alberto Mingardi
  1. Michael Lanchanski – Demography and Latin-American Marxism
  2. Laura Arce – The Unintended Consequences of International Adoption from Guatemala
  3. Daniel Mayorga Montesdeoca – Controlled Comptrollers: The Case for the Ecuadorian 2008 Constitution’s Transparency and Social Control Branch
Trade, Constitutions, and Entrepreneurship – chair: Deirdre McCloskey
  1. Gor Mkrtchian – Legislative Constraints on the Executive and Trade
  2. Glenn Furton – Two Kinds of Constitutional Order in Society
  3. Lucca Tanzillo dos Santos – Entrepreneurship at the Federal Level: A Decentralized Alternative to the Welfare State

6:00 pm

Campus Tour at Universidad de la Libertad


6:30 pm

Networking Cocktail


7:00 pm

Opening and Welcome Dinner


Day 2

17 MARCH
Monday
7:30 am

Sponsored Breakfasts


9:00 am

Keynote kickoff

Eduardo Nolla


10:00 am

Plenary

Institutions and democracy in the Americas

Paulo Guedes, Lorenzo Córdova, Deidre McCloskey, Federico Reyes Heroles


11:30 am

Coffee Break


12:00 pm

Breakout Sessions

1.Drugs, cartels and the security problem

Jeffrey Miron, Ricardo López Murphy, Eduardo Guerrero, Pablo Hiriart

2. Capture of the Justice Systems in the Americas

José Ramón Cossío, Thomas A. Berry, María Murillo, Hernán Bonilla


1:30 pm

Lunch

Pedro Schwartz, Roberto Salinas


2:30 PM – 3:50 PM

AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES

Liberty Classics from Latin America

From the Noble Savage to the Noble Revolutionary by Carlos Rangel.

Marcel Granier

Afternoon Panel A

Economic Freedom in the Americas

Ángel Carrión, Matthew Mitchell, Dean Stansel, Fred McMahon

Afternoon Panel B

100 of Manuel Ayau: A Champion of liberty in the Americas

Enrique Ghersi, Luis Pazos, Fernando Monterroso, Roberto Brenes


3:30 pm

Coffee break


4:00 PM

Book presentations

“Reframing Italian Economic History”

Nicola Rossi

“Indigenismo en América Latina: derechos, integración e ideología”.

Daniel R. Carreiro

“Out Poverty. Sweatshops In the Global Economy”

Ben Powell


5:00 PM

Plenary

America and the reconfiguration of the World Order

Sebastian Edwards, Eugene Gholz, Ryan Yonk, Ian Vazquez


7:00 PM

Dinner caminos de la libertad

General Prim

Invitations to MPS Marrakech and Indianapolis

Day 3

18 MARCH
Tuesday
7:30 am

Sponsored Breakfast


9:00 am

Keynote kickoff

Nassim Taleb


10:00 am

Plenary

Finance at Focus

Daniel Lacalle, George Selgin, Will Luther, Martín Krause


11:30 am

Coffee break


12:00 PM

Breakout Sessions

1. The migratory crisis

Daniel Hannan, Alexandré Padilla, Mike Gonzalez, Bettina Horst

2. Re-thinking Education from the ground-up

Ninfa Salinas, James Tooley, Gabriel Calzada, Arturo Damm


1:3o pm

Lunch


2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Afternoon activities

Liberty Classics from Latin America

The philanthropic ogre by Octavio Paz

Alberto Mingardi

Afternoon Panel A

AI, emergent technologies and regulation

Thomas Hazlett, Adam Thierer,  James Lawson, Max Rangeley.

Afternoon Panel B

Journalism for a Free Society “Cancelling the cancelation”

 Mario Noya, Sergio Sarmiento, Gabriela Calderón, Eduardo Fernández Luiña


3:30 PM

Coffee Break


4:00 PM

Book presentations

“¡Basta de democracia! Contra la falsificación del liberalismo. Una aproximación histórica”.

Carlos Sabino

“Conservative Liberalism”.

Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson

“Entrepreneurship and Evolutionary Economics”.

Per Bylund


5:00PM

Plenary

Is the ghost of inflation back in the western hemisphere?

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Salim Mattar, Antonio Foglia, Benjamin Powell


7:00 PM

KEYNOTE


8:00 PM

Off program activities

After Hours Videos by Free The people

Day 4

19 MARCH
Wednesday
7:30 AM

Breakfast


9:00 AM

Departure (Excursion)

  • Tour of Historic Center
  • Pyramids of Teotihuacan

1:00 PM

Lunch


5:00 PM

Back to hotel


*Program subject to changes
**Speaker: Javier Milei / Session Time: To Be Announced