http://www.libertarian.co.uk/conf05.htm



LIBERTY 2005:
THE ANNUAL LONDON CONFERENCE
OF THE LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE
AND THE LIBERTARIAN INTERNATIONAL


Saturday 19 November - Sunday 20 November, 2005


Saturday:                         10.00am-6.00pm
Saturday - Banquet:         8.00pm-11.00pm
Sunday:                           10.00am-7.00pm





The National Liberal Club
Whitehall Place
London SW1A 2HE
England











Conference Fee: British Pounds 85
You can now pay on-line using PayPal. This will be routed via Sean Gabb















I am delighted to invite you to Liberty 2005: The Annual London 
Conference of the Libertarian Alliance and the Libertarian 
International.
Dr Chris R. Tame,
Founder and Director, The Libertarian Alliance







SPEAKERS AND SUBJECTS:


* Mattias Bengston - "Statism: The Swedish Model and Its Lessons"
* Prof. Gabriel Calzada - "The Privatisation of Defense"
* Dr. Ben Cosin - "National Health Socialism: A Critique"
* Prof. Frank Van Dunn - "Personal Freedom, Corporate Liberties: An 
Uneasy Mix"
* Dr. Richard Ebeling - "Austrian School Economics and the Political 
Economy of Freedom"
* Dr. Sean Gabb - "Cultural Revolution and Culture War"
* Dr. Syed Kamall MEP - "The Dilemmas of a Free Trade Liberal in the 
European Parliament"
* Sacha Kumaria - "Think Tanks and the Movement for Liberty"
* Christian Michel - "Mafiosi and Oligarchs: The Making and the Unmaking 
of a Russian Legend"
* Dr. Julian Morris - "Environmental Problems: Myths and Reality"
* William Thomas - "Ayn Rand and the Values of Liberty"


OTHER FEATURES:


Special Banquet (Saturday): It is possible to attend this banquet only 
and not the entire Conference. A special banquet-only booking can be 
made at the appropriate point on the booking form below. Please note: 
banquet bookings must be made in advance. No banquet bookings can be 
made on the day.


* Guest of Honour: Stephen Pollard
* The presentation of the Libertarian Alliance's "Liberty Awards" for 
2005
* Liberty Award Winners Speeches (NB. Dr. Chris Sciabarra by video)

The Annual Liberty Awards:


* Liberty in Theory - Lifetime Award: Dr. Richard Ebeling
* Liberty in Theory - Lifetime Award: Prof. Norman Barry
* Liberty in Practice - Lifetime Award: Sir Alfred Sherman
* Dead Liberties - to be announced
* The First International Ayn Rand Award: Dr. Chris Sciabarra


The "Think Tank Room": Displays and sale of publications by major 
British think tanks, political journals and publishers


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS


Mattias Bengsston is President of the Centre for the New Europe 
(http://www.cne.org/index.htm), the Brussels-based free market think 
tank and former Director of Timbro, the Swedish free market institute, 
former Chairman of the Swedish branch of the European Democrat Students, 
and before that the leader writer, columnist and deputy political 
editor-in-chief at Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish conservative daily 
newspaper. He is the co-editor, with Johan Norberg of Frihetens 
Klassiker, an anthology of libertarian thought.

Prof. Gabriel Calzada is Associate Professor of Economics at the King 
Juan Carlos University in Spain and Founder-President of the libertarian 
think tank Instituto Juan de Mariana. He is also Vice-Director of the 
Austrian School-oriented scholarly Procesos de Mercado. He has been a 
Rowley Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is currently a 
Fellow of the Centre for the New Europe. He is a frequent broadcaster on 
television and has written extensively for such publications as Libertad 
Digital, Spanish Herald, Expansion, Mises Daily, The Journal of 
Libertarian Studies, Procesos de Mercados, La Ilustracion Liberal, and 
Canarias Liberal.

Ben Cosin was formerly Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Education, 
The Open University. He has contributed to such journals as Theoretical 
Practice, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Economy and Society 
and Fabian Review, and is the author of such papers as "Critical 
Empiricism Criticized: The Case of Freud" and "Structures without 
Politics". He is also editor of a number of works, including Diversity 
and Change: Education, Policy and Selection, Education, Policy and 
Society: Theoretical Perspectives, School and Society: A Sociological 
Reader, and School, Work and Equality: A Reader. He was Secretary of 
Hampstead and Highgate Labour Party from 1995 to 2004 and describes 
himself as a "habitual renegade".

Professor Frank Van Dunn is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the 
University of Gwent, Belgium. He has published extensively in many 
languages on the philosophy of law, logic, political theory, economics, 
the history of ideas, and the philosophy of human rights. The 
Libertarian Alliance has published his Authoritarian and Libertarian 
Views of Society and his essays "Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of 
Freedom", "Against Libertarian Legalism", "Human Dignity: Reason or 
Desire?", "Natural Rights versus Human Rights", and "Natural Law, 
Liberalism and Christianity" have been published in the The Journal of 
Libertarian Studies. His important critique of limited liability and the 
corporation, "Is the Corporation a Free Market Institution?" was 
published in The Freeman (http://www.fee.org/~web/0303iolpdf/feat7.pdf) 
and his essay "Philosophical States and the Illusions of Citizenship: 
Reflections on the Neutral State"  in the book Hayek Revisited.

Dr. Richard Ebeling is President of the Foundation for Economic 
Education (http://www.fee.org), the world's pioneer free market think 
tank, having formerly held the Ludwig von Mises Professorship in 
Economics at Hillsdale College and served as vice president of academic 
affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation. One of the world's leading 
authorities in Austrian School economics he is the author of Austrian 
Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom and the forthcoming 
Monetary Central Planning and the State and Ludwig von Mises: An 
Intellectual Biography. He has also edited the lost papers of Ludwig von 
Mises in three volumes as Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, and as 
well as three other volumes of previously unpublished lectures by Von 
Mises: Money, Inflation, and the Market Order, Marxism Unmasked: From 
Delusion to Destruction, and The Free Market and Its Enemies.  He is 
also the editor of 21 other volumes, including Economic Theories and 
Controversies, Liberty, Security and the War on Terrorism, Free Markets 
or Bureaucracy?: Economic Problem-Solving in the 21st Century, 
Globalization: Will Freedom or World Government Dominate the 
International Marketplace?, Competition or Compulsion: Free Markets vs. 
the New Social Engineering, Human Action: A 50-Year Tribute, The Age of 
Economists: Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, The Tyranny of Gun Control, 
Between Power and Liberty: Economics and the Law, The Future of American 
Business, The Failure of America's Foreign Wars, American Perestroika: 
The Demise of the Welfare State, Disaster in Red: The Failure and 
Collapse of Socialism, Economic Education: What Should We Learn About 
the Free Market?, The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, Can 
Capitalism Cope?: Free Market Reform in the Post-Communist World, The 
Dangers of Socialized Medicine, Global Free Trade: Reality or Rhetoric?, 
The Global Failure of Socialism, Austrian Economics: A Reader, Austrian 
Economics: Perspectives on the Past and Prospects for the Future. He is 
also the author of nearly 500 scholarly papers, articles and book 
reviews, appearing both in books and in such journals as The Freeman, 
Freedom Daily, La Prensa, The European Journal, The Christian Science 
Monitor, Austrian Economics Newsletter, Human Events, The  American 
Journal of Economics and Sociology, Imprimis, Liberty, The International 
Journal of World Peace, The Free Market, World Capitalism Review, Market 
Process, Critical Review, Humane Studies Review, Policy Report, 
Libertarian Forum, and Libertarian Review. He has lectured extensively 
throughout the world and consulted with the government of Lithuania and 
with members of the Russian Parliament in Moscow on free market reform 
and privatization of the socialist economy. He was in Moscow in August 
1991 during the failed coup-attempt and was at the barricades with the 
defenders of freedom at the Russian Parliament. With his wife Dr. Anna 
Ebeling he uncovered the "lost papers" Ludwig von Mises, looted by the 
Nazis, captured by the Soviet Army at the end of the Second World War, 
and hidden in a secret archive in Moscow. Dr. Ebeling is this year's 
recipient of the Libertarian Alliance/Libertarian International Liberty 
Lifetime Award for Liberty in Theory. Some of his writings can be found 
at:
http://www.fff.org/issues/listrme-essays.asp
http://www.fff.org/issues/listrme-reviews.asp
http://www.mises.org/articles.aspx?author=Ebeling


Dr. Sean Gabb is Director of Communications of the Libertarian Alliance, 
Editor of its journal, Free Life, and of its ezine, Free Life 
Commentary, as well as being a university lecturer in Britain and 
overseas. He has made hundreds of media appearances on behalf of the 
Libertarian Alliance and is the author of numerous books and monographs 
for both the Libertarian Alliance and Hampden Press, including 
Sado-Masochism and the Law: Consent versus Paternalism, What To Do About 
AIDS, Putting the Case Against Gun Control, Gun Control in Britain, A 
Libertarian Conservative Case Against Identity Cards, Liberty Versus 
Liberalism, The Case Against Sex Censorship: A Conservative View, The 
Full Coercive Apparatus of a Police State: Thoughts on the Dark Side of 
the Thatcher Decade, Despatches From a Dying Country: Reflections on 
Modern England, War and the National Interest: Arguments for a British 
Foreign Policy, Cultural Revolution, Culture War: The True Battle for 
Britain, Smoking, Class and the Legitimation of Power and (with Chris 
Tame) Freedom and Broadcasting. His writings have also been published by 
the Social Affairs Unit, the Independent Healthcare Association, the 
Adam Smith Institute, FOREST, The Salisbury Review, The Freeman, and The 
Times, and he was the author of an official government report on truancy 
in state schools. He was also the founder of the successful euro-sceptic 
campaigning website "Candidlist" which created havoc for unprincipled 
and evasive Conservative Party candidates and enabled constituencies to 
exercise informed democratic choice. For this audacity, and for 
embarrassing its slimy friends, he was labelled a "terrorist" by the 
Quisling Rightist newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Sean's publications can 
be found at:
http://www.libertarian.co.uk
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/index.htm
http://www.seangabb.co.uk
http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk

Dr. Syed Kamall is a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for 
London. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Leeds University Business School 
where he has lectured MBA students in international business and 
strategy and supervised doctoral students' research. He has written a 
number of articles on the international strategies of firms and foreign 
investment. He is also co-founder of the Global Business Research 
Institute (GBRI; http://www.gbri.org/), an educational body conducting 
outreach to business executives, journalists and civil servants, 
promoting a greater understanding of globalisation and its consequences.

In 1996, Syed completed a book on EU telecommunications policy, 
Telecommunications, and has written on multinational business and 
telecommunications policy for such books as Management in China: The 
Experience of Foreign Businesses, Trade and Investment in China: The 
European Experience, Political and Economic Relations Between Asia and 
Europe: New Challenges in Economics and Management, and in such journals 
as Management International Review and Transnational Corporations.

Sacha Kumaria is Director of Programmes at the Stockholm Network 
(http://stockholm-network.org/), a "one-stop shop for organisations 
seeking to work with Europe's brightest policymakers and thinkers, with 
a unique network of 130 market-oriented think tanks in Europe and 
worldwide".  He is Editor of the quarterly newsletter Eye on Europe and 
author of The State of the Union, a report on market reform within the 
European Union.

Christian Michel is the former owner of one of Europe's largest trust 
and corporate service companies and is a member of the Board of 
Directors of the Libertarian International and of the Committee of the 
Libertarian Alliance. He is also the author such books as La Liberte, 
Deux ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'elle and of many monographs for the 
Libertarian Alliance, including Restitution: Justice in a Stateless 
Society, The Class Struggle Is Not Over, Capitalism and the Wisdom of 
the Elders, and The End of the Warrior. A French national, he currently 
lives in London. His personal website is:
http://www.liberalia.com

Dr. Julian Morris is Director of the International Policy Network (IPN) 
(http://www.policynetwork.net), based in London, which "aims to empower 
individuals and promote respect for people and property in order to 
eliminate poverty, improve human health and protect the environment". He 
is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham. He holds 
degrees in economics and law and is the author or editor of many papers 
and books, including Environment and Health: Myths and Realities, 
Development: Promoting Progress or Perpetuating Poverty and Climate 
Change: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom, Ideal Matter: Globalisation 
and the Intellectual Property Debate.  His articles have also appeared 
in a wide range of newspapers and journals, including The Financial 
Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, The Wall 
Street Journal Europe, Economic Times (India), Business Day (South 
Africa), Nature, and Toxicology.  Prior to founding IPN, he was Director 
of the Environment and Technology Programme at the Institute of Economic 
Affairs.

Stephen Pollard was recently described by the BBC as "Britain's most 
prolific columnist", has been called a "Labour guru" on the front page 
of The Sunday Times, and is, according to The Guardian, the man who 
showed Tony Blair how to reform the NHS - an accusation for which he 
made the paper make a grovelling apology. He is a political columnist 
who writes for most British newspapers, and regularly in The Times, The 
Sunday Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal Europe. He is a Senior 
Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, where he heads the health 
policy programme, and at Civitas: The Institute for the Study of Civil 
Society. His biography of the former Home Secretary, David Blunkett, was 
published in 2004, and received much press attention. From 1998-2000 he 
was a columnist and Chief Leader Writer on The Daily Express; from 
1995-98 he was Head of Research at the Social Market Foundation; and 
from 1992-95 Research Director at the Fabian Society. He is co-author, 
with Andrew Adonis, of the best-selling A Class Act: The Myth of 
Britain's Classless Society, and is also the author of numerous 
pamphlets and monographs, including The Market and Clause IV, Towards a 
More Cooperative Society: Ideas on the Future of the British Labour 
Movement and Independent Health Care, A Question of Choice: Public 
Priorities for Health Care, Schools, Selection and the Left, and Israel, 
America and the Jews of the European Union. His personal website is:
http://www.stephenpollard.net/

William Thomas is Director of Programmes at The Objectivist Centre 
(http://www.objectivistcenter.org/), in the USA, formerly having 
lectured at Universities in America, Indonesia and conducted research 
under the auspices of the People's University of China! He is the author 
of Radical For Capitalism, co-author of The Logical Structure of 
Objectivism, and editor of The Literary Art of Ayn Rand. A number of his 
essays can be found at:
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ideas/author.asp?wthomas










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GENERAL INFORMATION

The Conference fee covers conference attendance, tea, coffee and soft 
drinks served throughout the entire Conference, and the closing Banquet 
(but NOT accommodation - see below for our suggestion on this). (Also, 
please note that we are not able to offer student discounts). The 
Conference programme may be subject to alteration.

New and Improved! By popular demand we have also scheduled a number of 
free-time networking sessions during the conference.

Re Accommodation: The cost of accommodation is NOT included in the price 
of this Conference. We recommend Central Conference Reservations who 
offer discounted booking for a wide price-range of hotel accommodation 
in London. They can be contacted at: Central Conference Reservations, 10 
Dudley Court, Upper Berkeley Street, London, W1H 7PH, England.
Tel: 01923 836000
Fax: 01923 840402
Email: centralreserve@aol.com
Alternatively, you are free to make your own bookings directly or via a 
travel agency.

Re Parking and Underground Stations: The National Liberal Club has no 
dedicated parking facilities. There are a few on-street places nearby 
(subject to intense demand), and there are car parks in Spring Gardens, 
Abingdon Street, and South Bank (see the map at the beginning of this 
document). The nearest Underground Stations are in order of proximity: 
Embankment, Charing Cross, Westminster (see the map at the beginning of 
this document).


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Return to: Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director, The Libertarian Alliance, Suite 
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transfer by selecting the PayPal option below. Please note: PayPal 
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This is the most efficient and speedy method of payment, and allows 
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PAYMENT IN EUROS AND NON-UK AND NON-US CHEQUES VIA THE LIBERTARIAN 
INTERNATIONAL:

Alternatively, if you wish to pay by cheques in Euros (EU124 for the 
entire Conference, EU 55 for the banquet-only) or in any other European 
currency, you may send your currency's equivalent of British Pounds 85 
(for the entire Conference), or British Pounds 35 for the banquet-only) 
payable to "The Libertarian International", to:


The Libertarian International, P.O. Box 21, B-2910, Essen, Belgium.
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If you choose to pay in this latter manner you must send by email a copy 
of this booking form to BOTH the Libertarian Alliance and to the 
Libertarian International.

ENDS












-- 
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