My former student Ed Stringham asked me to post this:
------------------------------------------ Call for Papers -- The Association of Private Enterprise Education 2006 Annual Meeting Las Vegas, Nevada April 2-4, 2006 "Private Solutions to Market Failures: Is Government Always the Answer?" The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) invites the submission of papers for its 31st International Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2-4, 2006. The association is composed of scholars from economics, political science, philosophy, and other disciplines as well as policy analysts, business executives, and other educators. APEE's annual meeting explores topics related to private enterprise in an atmosphere that respects market approaches. Presentations reflect the latest research in fields such as regulation, public choice, microeconomics, and Austrian economics, as well as instructional techniques. APEE invites papers on any topic, however, a number of sessions will be devoted to this year's theme: Private Solutions to Market Failures. The theme provides an opportunity to organize sessions that illustrate the advantages of private enterprise. As Harold Demsetz pointed out, many advocates of government intervention think of a potential problem and then assume that the state has the capability and incentive to solve it. This "Nirvana approach" to public policy usually ignores potential shortcomings of government and it usually fails to consider potential market solutions. In reality government solutions often have unintended consequences worse than the problem they were meant to fix. Private enterprise, on the other hand, often sees profit opportunities where needs exist and has an incentive to do things right. The private sector has found ways to privately provide many goods including: education, healthcare, relief for the poor, environmental amenities, roads, money, security, and much more. Among the topics that presenters may wish to address are the role of economic institutions and the rule of law, analysis of private versus public regulation, the role of markets and property rights, the state of the economics profession, public choice, and political philosophy. Papers accepted for presentation are eligible to be reviewed for publication in The Journal of Private Enterprise. Those wishing to submit papers should send the paper itself or a 600-word abstract to: APEE Vice President Edward Stringham, c/o J. R. Clark, APEE Secretary/Treasurer, Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 313 Fletcher Hall, Dept. 6106, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598. Phone: (423) 425-4118, FAX: (423) 425-5218, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Deadline for paper submission was December 1, 2005 but we are now accepting last minute submissions. Email by January 31 to be sure to be on the program. To learn more about APEE, please contact: J. R. Clark, APEE Secretary/Treasurer, at the above address or visit APEE's website at http://www.apee.org. If you have questions about paper topics or session panels, feel free to contact Edward Stringham at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Edward Stringham, Ph.D. Department of Economics San Jose State University San Jose, CA 95192 www.sjsu.edu/stringham -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://econlog.econlib.org "[M]uch of the advice from the parenting experts is flapdoodle. But surely the advice is grounded in research on children's development? Yes, from the many useless studies that show a correlation between the behavior of parents and the behavior of their biological children and conclude that parenting shapes the child, as if there were no such thing as heredity." --Steven Pinker, *The Blank Slate*
