ASSC 2009 was a success

November 1st, 2009

Just got back from the Austrian Student Scholars Conference at Grove City. It was a great time, met a lot of interesting people and caught up with some buddies I met this last summer at Mises University @ the Mises Institute. While I didn’t place in the top 3 for my paper I’m really not dissappointed at all, all the winners were graduate students (which I am not) and this was my first conference/econ. research paper so I wasn’t really expecting anything. That’s not to say I did poor, I think my paper was fair but oddly enough I think my presentation of my paper was probably better then the paper itself because I was forced to make my arguments more concise and because I made a real effort to rid my powerpoint of normative-ness, because I kind of felt like my paper had gotten a little messy towards the end with my urging privatization and whatnot (that part I cut out of the presentation).

For anyone who is interested, you can download the version of my paper which I sent in to be judged: pdf file

Additionally, here is the powerpoint I used for my presentation: pptx file

I’m not sure but I may do a little more work on this subject (State Monopoly & Bureaucracy) in the future, but definitely in the short term I will be taking a step back from this topic in order to pursue some other areas of interest.

Of course, feel free if anyone wants to quote something – just give a citation or link, w/e