French Economics Professor to Present at Truman

“Toward a More Participatory Society”
Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor of economics, University of Angers, France
7 p.m.
Feb. 21
Baldwin Hall Little Theatre

Presentation abstract: Plato, St. Thomas Aquinas, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Emile Durkheim, Ludwig von Miss and countless other great thinkers have underscored that human beings associate because of material advantages that they derive from cooperation. To understand the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, it is therefore necessary to study the cause of association and dissociation. We will focus on the impact of savings and capital accumulation on the one hand and government interventions on the other hand.

Hülsmann is a professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He received his Ph.D. in economics and master’s degree in engineering and economic science from the University of Berlin and his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the Free University of Berlin. He has taught at Loyola University and Grove City College in the United States and lectured at universities in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Russia, Spain and the Vatican.