May 13th, 2015

Venue:

Registration

10:00 – 10:30

Opening Remarks

10:30 – 10.45

Paata Sheshelidze (President, New Economic School, Georgia)

Barbara Kolm (Director Austrian Economics Center and President Hayek Institute, Austria)

Konstantin Topuria (chancellor University of Georgia)

Panel 1 – To grow or not to grow? From secular stagnation to robust recovery.

10:45 – 12:00

Moderetor:

Konstantin Topuria

keynote speech

Deirdre McCloskey (Distinguished Professor of Economics, History and English, University of Illinois)

Panelists

Pierre Garello ( Director of the Institute for Economic Studies- Europe)

Gia Jandieri (Vice-President, New Economic Scholl, Georgia)

Adam Martin ( Assistant professor, Political Economy Research Fellow, Free Market Institute, UK)

Coffee Break

12:00 – 12:30

Panel 2: Entrepreneurship and its enemies. How to set our creative energy free?

12:30 – 14:45

Moderator:

Revaz Chichinadze ( professor at University of Georgia)

keynote speech

John Chisholm (CEO, John Chisholm Ventures)

Panelists

Sinom Appleby ( YFN Georgia LLC)

Barbara Kolm (Director, Austrian Economics Center, Austria)

Paata Sheshelidze (President, New Economic School, Georgia)

Michael Walker ( Senior Fellow and Honorary Director of The Fraser Institute)

Closing Remarks

14:45 – 15:00

Gia Jandieri (Vice-President, New Economic School, Georgia)

Barbara Kolm (Director, Austrian Economics Center, Austria)

Konstantin Topuria

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