“The Students and Young Professionals Liberty Academy,” Accra, Ghana, June 22-27, 2008
Accra, Ghana June 22nd - 27th 2008
Schedule:
TUTORIALS (Classics of Liberty)
Foundations of Public Policy Analysis and Journalism
Tom Palmer
The Free-Rider problem from the Tragedy of the Commons
Franklin Cudjoe
Rent-seeking, Special Interests & Moral Hazard
June Arunga & Bright Simons
Spontaneous Order, Efficient Design & Central Planning
Kofi Bentil & Bright Simons
The Moral Foundations of Rights
Tom Palmer
Property as Norm & Resource
Tom Palmer & Franklin Cudjoe
LECTURES
Populism and Participatory Democracy: Why Elections are not enough
Kwesi Jonah
Energy Security & the so-called Resource Curse
Kwabena Donkor
Climate Change & Food Security: Putting the Cart before the Horse?
Kofi Bentil
Can Governments be Trusted to Deliver Public Goods?
Franklin Cudjoe
The Rule of Law: Accountability of Public Institutions
Ken Attafuah
ROUNDTABLES
ICT infrastructure & development
Dorothy Gordon
Internet Governance & Accessibility
Nii Narku Quaynor
The Mobilization of Telecom Power
Philip Sowah
Technology Entrepreneurship & its Enemies
Herman Chinery Hesse
Trade Liberalisation or Rationalisation?
Nii Moi Thompson
Do “imports” ever create jobs?
Nabil Moukarzel
Cargo Handling – the nuts and bolts of trade performance
David Quarshie (Gh Ship Coun)
Deliver Us from the Taxman
Patrick Gyan
The Rule of Law: Accountability of Public Institutions
Nii Osa Mills
The Mystery of Capital: why entrepreneurs prevail
George Mensah
Give us our Daily Bread”: the emergent “welfare” state in Africa
Gabby Otchere Darko
The Bank, the Fund and Houdini Economics (where art the Aid?)
Yoofi Grant
Ghana on the Verge of a Domestic Credit Bubble?
Ogbammey Tetteh
National Health Insurance, any pitfalls ahead?
NHIA
Drug Patents & Pharmaceutical Innovation
Divine Akaba
Prescription Costs: the dynamics of local medicine supply
Gyansa Lutterodt
Policy Monitoring & Evaluation - A Case for Accountability?
Edward Addae
The Artist & Freedom: Inspirations
Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Nii Mensah
Thomas Woernle
Mr. Black
Breaking News & Picking Up the Pieces
Ofoe Diogo
Who’s that peeking over your head? Privacy in an age of information domination.
NHIA
