Conference of the Walter Eucken Institut

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space

The conference is part of the 26 volume book series “Vordenker der liberalen Moderne” (Pioneers of liberal modernity), which is funded by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.

Program

11 December 2025

Welcome
Lars P. Feld (Walter Eucken Institut) and Daniel Nientiedt (Walter Eucken Institut)

Who Was Mises Arguing Against? Early Socialist Calculation Debates in “Red Vienna”
Alexander Linsbichler (Universität Linz)

The Socialist Calculation Debate: Theory and History
Rosolino Candela (George Mason University)

Austrian Capital Theory: Implications for Central Economic Planning
Eduard Braun (TU Clausthal)

Mises’ “Unhampered” Market Economy: The Role of Economy Policy
Richard M. Ebeling (The Citadel)

From Mises to Hayek: Planning and the “Knowledge Problem”
Giandomenica Becchio (Università di Torino)

Competition, Competition Policy and the Pretence of Knowledge
Hansjörg Klausinger (WU Wien)

12 December 2025

Interventionism as a Path to Socialism
Günther Chaloupek (ehem. Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, Wien)

Roads to Serfdom: Mises and Hayek on the Relationship Between the Economic System and the Political System
N.N.

“Real Existing Socialism”: The Development of Planned Economies, 1922–1991
Reinhard Schumacher (Universität Siegen)

Economic Calculation in the 21st Century: Industrial Policy, Technosocialism and the New Interest in Planning
Stefan Kooths (Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft)