Liberal Institutions and International Order
– renewing the infrastructure of liberty

As shown in the Program at a glance below, the meeting is structured around a set of interrelated subthemes, central to an ongoing effort to reinvent and revive liberalism, fit for the 21st century.

The program also features the following special sessions aligned with the themes and guiding thoughts behind the program:

  • A pre-program Young Scholars Session, inviting young scholars to address the central theme of the meeting.
  • A special 75th Anniversary Lecture followed by a conversation reflecting on the history and future of the Mont Pelerin Society.
  • The Hayek Essay Contest, also thematically related to the main themes of the meeting and to some of Friedrich Hayek’s writings on liberal and international order.

Program at a glance

Tuesday, October 4

  • 12:00

    Registration starts

  • 15:00 - 18:00

    Young Scholars Program

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  • 19:00 - 19:30

    Welcome cocktail

  • 19:30 - 22:00

    Opening dinner

Wednesday, October 5

  • 08:30 - 12:30

    Challenges and Prospects for the Liberal World Order

    The New Totalitarian Threats: Russia and China

  • 12:30 - 14:00

    Lunch

  • 14:00 - 18:20

    The Recalibration of Globalisation and the Future of the WTO

    The Enemies of the Open Society 2.0.

    75th Anniversary Lecture and Conversation

Thursday, October 6

  • 08:30 - 12:30

    The Climate and Environmental Challenge and Opportunity

    The Challenge of Neo-Planism and Top-down Industrial Policies

  • 12:30 - 13:30

    Lunch

  • 13:30 - 18:10

    Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creative Destruction

    Reforming the Framework of the Market Economy

    Freedom, Economy and the Pandemic

Friday, October 7

  • 08:00 - 11:20

    New Perspectives on Liberal Democracy and the Social Contract

    The Monetary, Financial and Fiscal Framework under Pressure

  • 11:20 - 12:30

    Lunch

  • 13:00 - 18:30

    Excursion

Saturday, October 8

  • 08:00 - 12:45

    Federalism, Subsidiarity and the Future of the EU

    Hayek Essay Contest

    Members Meeting

  • 12:45 - 14:00

    Lunch

  • 14:00 - 18:00

    Reforming Liberalism: From The Colloque Walter Lippmann to the Present

    Reinventing Liberalism for the 21st Century

  • 19:30 - 20:00

    Cocktail reception

  • 20:00 - 23:00

    Closing dinner

Full program

Tuesday, September 1Wednesday, September 2Thursday, September 3Friday, September 4Saturday, September 5
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Program in Detail

Tuesday October 4
12:00
Registration starts
15:00 - 18:00
Pre-Program: Young Scholar Sessions

Young scholars will present and discuss submitted papers relevant to the main themes of the MPS Oslo meeting in two parallel sessions/rooms.

The sessions take place in the rooms Taksim Square and Nyhavn, 3rd floor.

Session 1: East Asia (Taksim Square)

Chair: Edwin Feulner

Greg Caskey: Chinese Development Lending and the Amplification Effect

Bryan Cheang: East Asia, the Developmental State, and Liberalism

Session 2: Governance (Nyhavn)

Chair: Edward Stringham

Henry Thompson: Toward a Theory of Mafia Property Rights?

Audrey Redford: Conventional Wisdom?: Constitutional Failure in International Narcotics Agreements

Nunez del Fabio Prado: Adjudicators and Invisible Loyalties: An Assessment ofthe Dominant Model for Appointing Adjudicators in the International Order of Dispute Resolution

Vera Kichanova: Metaverse and the Future of Non-Territorial Governance

Session 3: Freedom and Institutions (Taksim Square)

Chair: Randall Holcombe

Kerianne Lawson: Free to Protest or Protesting for Freedom? Understanding the Relationship Between Institutions and the Prevalence of Protests Around the World

Justin Callais: Who Benefits When a Country Becomes More Economically Free? (Does Anybody Lose?)

Laura Jenkins: Privatizing Leviathan: A Look Back at James Buchanan’s “America Third Century in Perspective”

 

Session 4: Public Policy (Nyhavn)

Chair: Nicolas Cachanosky

Alicia Plemmons: Occupational Licensure: Expanded Psychologist Prescriptive Authority and Suicide Rates

Glenn Fahey: Reclaiming Liberalism in 21st Century School Education

Jelena Culibrk: Out of Chaos: Documentary Media, (neo)Liberalism, and theRiddle of Politics, 1918-1947

19:00 - 19:30
Welcome Cocktail
19:30 - 21:30
Opening dinner

Welcome note by Kristin Clemet, Civita

Opening address by Lars Peder Nordbakken, Civita

Talk in memory of Linda Whetstone by Eamonn Butler, Adam Smith Institute

Wednesday October 5
08:30 - 10:15
Challenges and Prospects for the Liberal World Order ​

Chair: Edwin van de Haar

 

Does the Liberal International Order have a Future?
G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University

What We Know, and Don’t Know About the New Geopolitical and
Geoeconomic Order
Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist

Beyond «Restraint»: Making the Liberal International Order Fit for The 21st
Century
Dalibor Rohac, American Enterprise Institute

Panel and Planary Discussions and Q&A

10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 - 12:30
The New Totalitarian Threats: Russia and China

Chair: Eamonn Butler

 

Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Ecinomy to Kleptocracy

Anders Åslund, Stockholm Free World Forum

 

Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom: The Russian Factor

Nataliya Melnyk, BFMC (Ukraine)

 

China’s Threat to the Free Society: What’s a Good Liberal to Do?

Doug Bandow, Cato Institute

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:15
The Recalibration of Globalisation and the Future of the WTO

Chair: Lars P. Feld

 

Geopolitics, Nontrade Policy Objectives and WTO Reform

Bernhard Hoekman, European University Institute, Florence

 

Thoughts on the Future of the Multilateral Trading System

Alan Wm. Wolff, former deputy Director General of the WTO, Peterson Institute of International Economics 

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

15:15 - 15:35
Coffee break
15:35 - 16:50
The Enemies of the Open Society 2.0

Chair: Karen I. Horn

 

Classical Liberalism against Populism – Left and Right

Nils Karlson, Hoover Institution and Ratio

 

Radical Illiberalism on the Right: The Re-Emergence of Central Themes of the «Conservative Revolution»

Tom Palmer, Atlas Network

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

16:50 - 17:10
Coffee break
17:10 - 18:20
Mont Pelerin 1947: The 75th Anniversary Lecture

Bruce Caldwell, Duke University

 

Following up Panel Conversation with:

Jurgen Reinhoudt, Karen I. Vaughn, Leszek Balcerowicz, Bruce Caldwell and Lars Peder Nordbakken (moderator)

Thursday October 6
08:30 - 10:15
The Climate and Environmental Challenge and Opportunity

Chair: Nils Karlson

 

Ecology & Freedom. Outlines for a liberal climate policy

Ralf Fücks, Zentrum Liberale Moderne

 

Less from More – the ongoing Failure of Green Deals

Christian Sandstrøm, Jönköping International Business School

 

Estimating the Growth in Resource Abundance During the Era of Sustained Innovation: Lessons for the Future

Marian L. Tupy, Human Progress 

Panel and plenary discussions and Q&A

10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 - 12:30
The Challenge of Neo-Planism and Industrial Policies

Chair: Pedro Schwartz 

 

The Scope of Government: An Ordoliberal View

Lars P. Feld, University of Freiburg and Water Eucken Institut

 

Essential but Impossible: Can the UK Ever Succeed with Industrial Policies?

Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge

 

The Missionary Theory of Industrial Policy: Lessons from the Pandemic Response

Mark Pennington, King’s College London

 

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:45
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creative Destruction

Chair: Ruth M. Richardson

 

Rethinking Capitalism Post-Covid: The Power of Creative Destruction

Philippe Aghion, INSEAD and Collège de France

 

Knowledge, its Diffusion and Growth

Pontus Braunerhjelm, Royal Institute of Technology and Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

 

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

14:45 - 15:05
Coffee break
15:05 - 16:50
Reforming the Framework of the Market Economy

Chair: Stefan Kolev

 

Dominant Firms and the Economy

Thomas Philippon, New York University Stern Business School

 

Taming Corporate Power

Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

 

Competition Policy Challenges For The Next 10 Years: Digital Platforms, Sustainability and Labour Markets

Justus Haucap, University of Düsseldorf

Discussant: Rosolino Candela, George Mason University

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

16:50 - 17:10
Coffee break
17:10 - 18:10
Freedom, Economy and the Pandemic

Chair: Roberta Herzberg

 

What Happened to Global Economic Freedom During the Covid-19 Pandemic?

Benjamin Powell, FMI Texas Tech University

 

Limits to Interventionist Policies During and After the Pandemic: Are We on a Slippery Slope?

Jan Schnellenbach, Brandenburg University of Technology

 

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

Friday October 7
08:00 - 09:20
New Perspectives on Liberal Democracy and the Social Contract

Chair: Otto Bröns-Petersen

 

The Future of the Swedish Model and its Social Contract

Charlotta Stern, Ratio Institute

 

A Tipping Points as a Challenge for Liberal Society

Nils Goldschmidt, University of Siegen

 

Discussant: Hans Chr. Garmann Johnsen, University of Agder

 

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

09:20 - 09:40
Coffee break
09:40 - 11:20
The Monetary, Financial and Fiscal Framework under Pressure

Chair: Mark Skousen, Chapman University

 

Economic Policy and the Growth of Nations

Finn E. Kydland, Nobel Prize Winner, University of California Santa Barbara

 

Europe‘s Monetary and Fiscal Architecture: What Went Wrong and How to Fix it

Hans Peter Grüner, University of Mannheim

 

Better Money: Gold, Fiat or Bitcoin?

Lawrence H. White, George Mason University

 

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

11:20 - 12:30
Lunch
13:00 - 18:30

Excursion: An electric boat cruise in the inner Oslofjord, with a visit to the Oscarsborg fortress. 

A light meal will be served onboard as we depart from Oscarsborg, returning to Oslo city center, close to the conference hotel.   

Saturday October 8
08:00 - 09:30
Federalism, Subsidiarity and the Future of the EU

Chair: Dalibor Rohac

 

Luigi Einaudi, the EU Treaties and the Federal Future of Europe

Angelo Santagostino, Wincenty Pol Academy of Applied Sciences of Lublin

 

Tax Competition in the EU: The Fate of Flat Tax Jurisdictions

Krassen Stanchev, University of Sofia

 

The Future of the EU: Europe à la Carte?!

Michael Wohlgemuth, SOUS Liechtenstein

 

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

09:30 - 09:45
Coffee break
09:45 - 10:45
Hayek Essay Contest

Chair: Benjamin Powell

Presentations by the three prizewinners.

10:45 - 10:50
Break
10:50 - 12:45
Members meeting
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:50
Reforming Liberalism: From the Colloque Walter Lippmann to the Present

Chair: Gabriel Calzada

 

Renewing Economic Liberalism: The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and Inaugural Meeting of the MPS revisited

Jurgen Reinhoudt, Hoover Institution

 

Reform or Preservation? Stabilizing Orders in Times of Fragility

Stefan Kolev, Ludwig Erhard Forum for Economy and Society, Berlin

 

Why Are so Many Western Intellectuals Abandoning Liberalism, and What Can We Do About It?

Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University

 

A Liberal Maverick: Ralf Dahrendorf’s Life and Thinking

Franziska Meifort, University of Oldenburg

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

 

15:50 - 16:10
Break
16:10 - 18:00
Reinventing Liberalism for the 21st Century

Chair: Lars Peder Nordbakken

 

Through the Looking-Glass: What can Liberals find There?

Karen I. Horn, NOUS Network, Freiburg

 

Most Policy is Impossible

Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussants: 

Erwin Dekker, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Max Marlow, Adam Smith Institute

Panel and Plenary Discussions and Q&A

19:30 - 20:00

A Special Reception sponsored by Liberty Fund to celebrate the recent completion of the Collected Works of F.A. Hayek

20:00 - 23:00
Closing dinner

With keynote speaker Johan Norberg: 

In Defence of Openness