Events
Economic Conferences
At our Economic Conferences, renowned international experts present the latest findings on political economy topics, followed by a panel discussion with the audience.
62. Economic Conference
Two Sister Republics: Constitutional Resilience and Pitfalls
Alan C. Raul
«250 Years Later: What Has Become of the Genius of America and Republican Virtue»
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
«No Pursuits. Visions Are For Others.»
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61. Economic Conference
A New Monetary Order?
Tobias Straumann
«Upheavals in the Monetary System: Lessons from History»
David Darst
«Navigating a World in Transition»
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60. Economic Conference
The Sharing Economy: Promise or Peril?
Michael C. Munger
«Is Renting the New Owning?»
Justus Haucap
«Opportunities and Risks of the Sharing Economy: Competition and Potential Externalities»
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Special Event for the Publication «Dealing With America»
Even if it’s Madness, There’s a Method to it
Konrad Hummler
«Foolish» is not enough.
Ivan Adamovich
«Prepare for the Worst, Hope for the Best»
Beat Kappeler
“Trump is Hardly a Puppet of the Experts”
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59. Economic Conference
Managing the Challenge of Immigration
Kristie de Peña
«America's Integration Edge: Generational Achievement of Immigrant Communities»
Leon de Winter
«Dealing With Threats in an Open Society»
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Germany Before the Elections: What Ludwig Erhard Has to Say to Us Today
Georg Vanberg
«Ludwig Erhard in the 21st century: The constitutional foundations of a social market economy»
Stefan Kolev
«How Germany can and must restart its regulatory policies»
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58. Economic Conference
The Sustainability of Government Debt
Kwasi Kwarteng
«The Challenges of Growth»
Lars P. Feld
«Why Is Government Debt A Burden?»
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57. Economic Conference
The Rule of Law Under Pressure
Tom Ginsburg
«Preserving the Rule of Law: Pragmatic Considerations»
Paul Kirchhof
«The Rule of Law Based on Unwritten Certainties»
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56. Economic Conference
Energy and Climate – From Wishful Thinking to Realistic Action
Jeremy Bentham
«Wise Approaches to Energy Transition Uncertainties»
Lino Guzzella
«Energy for the World and for Switzerland - an Overview»
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55. Economic Conference
Are Central Banks Causing Inflation?
Charles Goodhart
«Inflation: The Relative Role of Demographics and Central Banks»
Ernst Baltensperger
«The Responsibility of Central Banks for Price Stability»
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Workshops
The Progress Foundation workshops are small group working sessions on specific topics and texts. Participants are invited in person by the Board of Trustees.
Authors, Speakers, Workshop Participants
A selection of our speakers.
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Jürgen G. Backhaus
Philipp Bagus
Leszek Balcerowicz
Stephan Balling
Ernst Baltensperger
Hans D. Barbier
Arnulf Baring
Luigi Marco Bassini
Andreas B. Batlogg
Carl Baudenbacher
Jörg Baumberger
Gregor van der Beek
Giorgio Behr
Jeremy Bentham
Matthias Benz
Peter Bernholz
Michel Besson
Thomas Bieger
Stephan Bieri
Georges Bindschedler
Anette Bingemer
Mathias Binswanger
Jacob Bjorheim
Charles B. Blankart
Christoph Blocher
Frank Bodmer
Silvio Borner
Hardy Bouillon
Scott Boykin
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Louis D. Brandeis
Mathis Brauchbar
Horace Brock
Daniel Brühlmeier
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
James M. Buchanan
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
Gérard Bökenkamp
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Charles Murray, Ph. D.
J.D. Roger Pilon, Ph. D.
Gert Dahlmanns
Hans Peter Danuser
David Darst
Jefferson Davis
Ron Deibert
Anthony De Jasey
René Pahud de Mortanges
Kristie de Peña
Daniel De Roulet
Alexis de Tocqueville
Leon de Winter
Andreas Diekman
Dietmar Doering
Roger Douglas
Kevin Dowd
Wolfgang Drechsler
Karl Heinz Däke
Mathias Döpfner
Felix Dünser
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Cla Famos
Ulrich Fehl
Ernst Fehr
Lars P. Feld
Horst Feldmann
Michael Ferber
Guglielmo Ferrero
Edwin J. Feulner
Peter A. Fischer
Gerd Folkers
Hans Folz
Katharina Fontana
William F. Ford
Christoph Frei
Max Frenkel
Bruno S. Frey
Milton Friedman
David D. Friedman
Benjamin Friedman
Paul L. Friedman
Paul Frijters
Michael Funk
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Emmanuel Garessus
William Lloyd Garrison
Susanne Gaschke
Joachim Gauck
Katja Gelinsky
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Katja Gentinetta
Pascal Gentinetta
Stefan Gerlach
Gerd Gigerenzer
George Gilder
Robert A. Gilmour
Tom Ginsburg
Josef Girshovich
Wolfgang Glatzer
Nils Goldschmidt
Charles Goodhart
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf
Hannes Grassegger
Alexander Grau
Margaret L. Greene
Matt Grossmann
Allan Guggenbühl
Lino Guzzella
Beat Gygi
Simon Gächter
Heike Göbel
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Gerd Habermann
Jürgen Habermas
Jochen Hadermann
Ernst Hafen
Peter Hafter
Matthias Haller
Eugen Haltiner
Rainer Hank
Justus Haucap
Hans Haumer
Heinz Hauser
Horst Hegmann
Marianne Heimbach-Steins
Thomas Held
David Henderson
Hans-Olaf Henkel
Hans Jörg Hennecke
Peter Hettich
Philipp W. Hildmann
Christian Hoffmann
Karl Hofstetter
Adrian Holderegger
Matthias Holenstein
Eric Honegger
Einar Hope
Karen Horn
Klaus Hornung
Fabian Huber
Konrad Hummler
Robert E. Hunter
Gerald Häfner
Jochen Hörisch
Jörg Guido Hülsmann
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Beat Kappeler
Necla Kelek
Niklas Keller
Craig Kennedy
Wolfgang Kersting
Walter B. Kielholz
Søren Kierkegaard
Martin Killias
Paul Kirchhof
Erich Kirchler
Christian Kirchner
Guy Kirsch
Roland Kirstein
Václav Klaus
Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Heribert Knittlmayer
Georg Kohler
Stefan Kolev
Martin Kolmar
Peter Koslowski
Hansrudolf Kramer
Bernd Kramer
Reto Krapf
Ivan Krastev
Alex Krauer
Franz Kromka
Peter Kugler
Lukas Kundert
Peter Kuster
Kwasi Kwarteng
Ekkehard A. Köhler
Roger Köppel
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Deepak Lal
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora
Alexis Lautenberg
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Martin Lees
Harmen Lehment
Martin Lendi
Vera Lengsfeld
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Alois von und zu Liechtenstein
Siegwart Lindenberg
Willy Linder
Ann Marie Lipinski
Ferdinand Lips
Carlo Lottieri
Ernst-Dieter Lueg
Gal Luft
Friedrich A. Lutz
Hermann Lübbe
René Lüchinger
Herbert Lüthy
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Klaus Mackscheidt
Rico Maggi
Thilo Marauhn
Alex Martinovits
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher
Marina Masoni
Graham Mather
Milosz Matuschek
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Walter Russel Mead
John D. Meadowcroft
Gerrit Meijer
Allan Meltzer
Oswald Metzger
Martin Meyer
Axel Meyer
Meinhard Miegel
Marc A. Miles
Ignaz Miller
Alberto Mingardi
Daniel J. Mitchell
Peter Moser
Dennis Moser
Michael C. Munger
Christoph Möllers
Isabel Mühlfenzl
Jan-Werner Müller
Rainer Münz
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Alvin Rabushka
Bernd Rahmann
Richard W. Rahn
Vanessa Rampton
Alan C. Raul
John Rawls
Dixy Lee Ray
Ursula Raymann
Klaus Reeh
Richard Reichel
Josef H. Reichholf
Alex Reichmuth
Karl Reichmuth
Christof Reichmuth
Janusz Reiter
Hans Rentsch
Alan Reynolds
Martin Rhonheimer
Thomas Ribi
Georg Rich
Horst-Eberhard Richter
Fritz Riemann
Tanja Rippberger
Klaus Peter Rippe
Albrecht Ritschl
Johannes Ritter
Ian Roberts
Jonathan Rodden
Bernd Roeck
Manfred Rose
Sidney Rose
Bernhard Rothen
Beat Rudin
Bernhard Ruetz
Stephan Russ-Mohl
Bernd Rüthers
Bernhard Rütsche
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Pascal Salin
Razeen Sally
Dominick Salvatore
Michele Salvi
Suzette Sandoz
Christoph Schaltegger
Jeremiah Schatt
Klaus-Werner Schatz
Eric Scheidegger
Franz Schellhorn
René Scheu
Gerhard Schick
Kurt Schiltknecht
Hans Jürgen Schlösser
Thomas Schmid
Ralph Schmitz-Dräger
Gunther Schnabl
Helmut Schoeck
Urs Schoettli
Franz Scholl
Anna J. Schwartz
Gerhard Schwarz
Klaus Schweinsberg
Rainer J. Schweizer
Markus Schär
Fabian Schönenberger
Alfred Schüller
Peter Schürmann
Wolfgang Schüssel
Hansjörg Seiler
Friedrich L. Sell
James Sheehan
George P. Shultz
Horst Siebert
Gabriele Siegert
Radek Sikorskiy
Roberto Simanowski
Hans-Werner Sinn
Beat Sitter-Liver
Manfred Sliwka
Rolf Soiron
Wolfgang Somary
Markus Somm
Jürg Sommer
Reto Sonderegger
Herbert Spencer
Lysander Spooner
Jerome L. Stein
Johann Steurer
Jörg Stolz
Fritz Strack
Thomas Straubhaar
Tobias Straumann
Marcel Studer
Stefan Studer
Richard Sturn
Madeleine Sumption
Michael Surber
Claudia Aebersold Szalay
Christa Sütterlin
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Neil Wallace
Rudolf Walser
Christian Watrin
Karl Weber
Hanne Weck-Hannemann
Philipp Weckherlin
Erich Weede
Gerhard Wegner
Joel Weibel
Kurt Weigelt
Ulrich Weisser
Veronica Weisser
Patrick Welter
Dirk Wenzel
Michael Werz
Kirsten Westphal
William White
Gail Wilensky
Stephan Wirz
Claudia Wirz
Michael Wohlgemuth
Stefan C. Wolter
R. James Woolsey
Franz M. Wuketits
Hans Peter Würmil