Opening & Closing dinner : Business
Sessions : Casual
Excursion : Sporty
For Spouse program details, click "Spouse Program".
Conference Program
The attire during MPS2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
| Place | ||
| 10:00 - 19:00 | Registration | Tsubaki |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Cocktail Party | Tsuru |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Opening Reception Dinner | Tsuru |
Monday, September 8, 2008
- Spouse Program
Japanese Garden, Tokyo Bay Lunch Cruise and Meiji Shrine
| Place | ||
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Session 1:
Global Warming, Environment and Free Markets
Chair:
Greg Lindsay
Presenters:
Title: Current Global Warming Alarmism and the Mont Pelerin Society's Long Term Agenda
Title: Some Simple Economics of Climate Change
Title: THE GREENNESS OF CITIES: CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
|
Fuyo |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Fuyo |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 2:
Biotechnology, Ethics and Free Markets
Chair:
Victoria Curzon-Price
Presenters:
Title: Biotechnology: markets and bioethics
Title: Liberalism and Biomedical Progress: A Positive View
Title: Biotechnology, Ethics and Free Markets
|
Fuyo |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch: Address by Václav Klaus "Tribute to Milton Friendman" |
Ho-Oh |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Breakout Session for Session 1
|
Fuyo |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | Fuyo |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Breakout Session for Session 2
|
Fuyo |
| 18:00 - 18:45 |
Special Session:
Freedom to choose forms of wage payment
Coordinator:
Yasuyuki Takimoto
Presenter:
Shuntaro Shishido
Commentator:
|
Fuyo |
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
- Spouse Program
Downtown Tokyo and National Museum
| Place | ||
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Session 3:
Healthcare in Free Markets
Chair:
Carl-Johan Westholm
Presenters:
Title: Improving the U.S. Health Care System
Title: Institutional Reforms to Reduce the Cost of Medical Care
Title: U.S. Health Care Reform: Do Other Countries Have the Answers?
|
Fuyo |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Fuyo |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 4:
Impact of Information Technology on Freedom and Communication
Chair:
Edwin J. Feulner
Presenters:
Title: The Impact of Information Technology on Freedom and Communication
Title: Republicanism redux? Participation versus Personal Freedom in a World of Communication and Information
Title: The Freedom of the Ancients, the Moderns and the Networked
|
Fuyo |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | Ho-Oh |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Breakout Session for Session 3
|
Fuyo |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | Fuyo |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Breakout Session for Session 4
|
Fuyo |
| Evening | VIP Dinner / Free time |
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
| All day | Excursion: Kamakura Tour, Sightseeing for Japanese Historical Place |
Thursday, September 11, 2008
- Spouse Program
Japanese Culture and Shopping in Ginza
| Place | ||
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Session 5:
Asian Economic Growth: How Important Were Free Markets?
Chair:
Leonard Liggio
Presenters:
Title: Asian Economic Growth: How Important Were Free Markets?
Title: Free Markets in China’s Economic Growth – Hong Kong’s Role
Title: Asian Century: Markets, Institutions and Economic Growth
|
Fuyo |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Fuyo |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 6:
International Spread of Technology
Chair:
Eduardo Mayora
Presenters:
Title: Telecommunications In Mexico: A Policy Failure
Title: "Financial Technologies and a Global Regulation: The BIS Capital Regulation as a Cause of the Current U.S. Financial Crisis
Title: India's National Innovation System: "What's New? What's Old? What Do We Really Know?"
|
Fuyo |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | Ho-Oh |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Breakout Session for Session 5
|
Fuyo |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | Fuyo |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Breakout Session for Session 6
|
Fuyo |
| Evening | Free Time |
Friday, September 12, 2008
| Place | ||
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Session 7:
Digital Divide: Poverty, Income Inequality and Education
Chair:
Jean-Pierre Centi
Presenters:
Title: Should We Care About The Digital Divide?
Title: Globalization and Inequality
|
Fuyo |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Fuyo |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Breakout Session for Session 7
|
Fuyo |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch | Ho-Oh |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Member's Meeting of MPS | Edo |
| 15:30 - 18:00 | Depart New Otani for Gala Dinner Venue | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Closing Gala Dinner | Orion, Hotel Chinzan-So |
