Join us for an engaging luncheon in Dallas-Fort Worth with AIER’s Director of Economics and Economic Freedom and Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Peter C. Earle.
Event Description
Dr. Earle will examine artificial intelligence (AI) in light of Friedrich Hayek’s concept of types of knowledge and his critique of central planning. The discussion will cover realistic and unrealistic concerns regarding AI, an assessment of fears about AI displacing jobs, AI’s potential to reshape the economy, and which types of work are the most and least vulnerable.
Following his presentation, Dr. Earle will be joined by Barbara Kolm, Founder of the Free Market Roadshow and Director of the Austrian Economics Center, and Dan Mitchell, public policy economist and former Senior Fellow with the Cato Institute, for a Q&A session and panel discussion.
Lunch will be provided, and meal selection is mandatory upon registration. Please select your meal choice from the drop-down menu on the registration form.
Registration is required.
Our April 9th Harwood Salon – DFW is in partnership with the Free Market Roadshow. In 2025, the Free Market Road Show commemorates a milestone in the history of free-market ideas: the 50th anniversary of F. A. Hayek’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. With his groundbreaking speech, “The Pretence of Knowledge,” Hayek challenged the foundations of centralized planning and emphasized the importance of humility in policy-making. This year, we celebrate his legacy by reigniting the conversation about knowledge, freedom, and progress in an increasingly complex world.
Schedule
11:30 AM: Arrivals and check-in, with pre-selected entrees served by Mercury staff.
11:55 AM: Welcome by Dan Garretson and Presentation by Dr. Pete Earle
12:30 PM: Panel Discussion and Q&A with Pete Earle, Barbara Kolm, and Dan Mitchell
1:30 PM: Post-Event Reception and Departures
About the Speakers
Peter C. Earle, Ph.D, is the Director of Economics and Economic Freedom and a Senior Research Fellow who joined AIER in 2018. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from l’Universite d’Angers, an MA in Applied Economics from American University, an MBA (Finance), and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Prior to joining AIER, Dr. Earle spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at a number of securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area as well as engaging in extensive consulting within the cryptocurrency and gaming sectors. His research focuses on financial markets, monetary policy, macroeconomic forecasting, and problems in economic measurement. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, NPR, and in numerous other media outlets and publications.
Barbara Kolm is the founder of the Free Market Road Show, Director of the Austrian Economics Center, President of the Hayek Institute and Professor of Austrian Economics at the University of Donja Gorica in Montenegro. She has served and continues to serve on several supervisory boards in the insurance and financial industries, e.g. as Vice President of the Austrian National Bank and on the Supervisory Board of Wiener Städtische Wechselseitige Versicherungsverein – Vermögensverwaltung – Vienna Insurance Group. She heads the world’s first UN ITU United 4 Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) National Hub in Austria and was appointed Vice Chair of the ITU Focus Group on Environmental Efficiency for Artificial Intelligence and other Emerging Technologies (AI4EE).
Kolm is one of the most influential public intellectuals in the field of the Austrian School of Economics. She is the recipient of numerous awards.
Dan Mitchell is a public policy economist in Washington, DC. His major research interests include tax reform, international tax competition, the economic burden of government spending, and other fiscal policy issues. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on the flat tax and has been the leading international voice in the fight to preserve tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty. He has decades of experience authoring papers, writing editorials, working with the public policy community, and presenting the free-market viewpoint to the newspaper, television, and radio media.