terça-feira, março 23, 2004

Taí um encontro no qual eu gostaria de estar

Mas é só para gente muiiiiiito selecionada. Creiam-me.

The Mont Pelerin Society

Agora, o concurso, se você sabe inglês, é genial:


The Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society Announces the Friedrich A. Hayek Fellowships for the
2004 GENERAL MEETING OF THE MONT PELERIN SOCIETY (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA – August 14-21, 2004)

F. A. Hayek in his discussion of spontaneous order states:

"The extension of an order of peace beyond the small purpose-oriented organization became thus possible by the extension of purpose-independent ('formal') rules of just conduct to the relations with other men who did not pursue the same concrete ends or hold the same values except those abstract rules - rules which did not impose obligations for particular actions (which always presuppose a concrete end) but consisted solely in prohibitions from infringing the protected domain of each which these rules enable us to determine. Liberalism is therefore inseparable from the institution of private property which is the name we usually give to the material part of this protected individual domain." F. A. Hayek, "The Principles of a Liberal Social Order, " (A paper submitted to the Tokyo Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, September 1, 1966 and published in Il Politico (December, 1966) in Chiaki Nishiyama and Kurt R. Leube, editors, The Essence of Hayek (Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1984) p. 368.

Hayek proposes the Rules of Just Conduct as the basis for a peaceful society of reciprocity and free exchange among peoples of different cultures. How do the Rules of Just Conduct emerge in any society? What are the standards for the "prohibitions from infringing the protected domain"? Is mutual adherence to the Rules of Just Conduct the basis for peaceful intercourse among cultural different peoples? Why is private property an indispensable condition for the creation of these Rules of Just Conduct? The Hayek Fellowships will be awarded for the three best essays on the above topic. Essays of 5,000 words or less may be submitted by students or faculty members 35 years of age or younger. The essays will be judged by an international panel of three senior members of the Society. The deadline for submission of the essays is May 31, 2004.

1 st prize: $2,500.00*, 2 nd prize: $1,500.00*, 3 rd prize: $1,000.00.* Each fellowship awardee will also receive a travel/registration grant to participate in the MPS Salt Lake City meeting. Prize information and additional details are available from: The Mont Pelerin Society, P.O. Box 7031, Alexandria, Virginia, 22307, USA www.montpelerin.org


Abrindo um parênteses, se não fosse pelo meu orientador do mestrado, o bondoso Ronald O. Hillbrecht (IPE-USP e depois PPGE-UFRGS) e pelo meu temível orientador do doutorado, o sr. Ronald O. Hillbrecht (PPGE-UFRGS), eu jamais teria lido Hayek com aquela visão científica...(Giacomo, desculpe-me. Apesar de seus incentivos, o sujeito que me fez ler Hayek e patota foi o Ronald). Outros austríacos eu acabei lendo...ah...isto fica para outro dia. A semana será longa...