CNE Monatsmagazin Digest
November 2004

English Summary

October 28 is the 300th anniversary to commemorate John Locke's obit. A good reason, says Hardy Bouillon, CNE's Head of Academic Affairs, to remember the merits and defaults of the great thinker, who had a unique impact on the theory of private property. According to Bouillon, Locke was extremely successful and mostly misunderstood by his adversaries from the left, but also left behind ill-conceived provisos about first possession, as shown by Anthony de Jasay.

Trade with emission certificates is ready to start next year, says CNE-Webblogger Edgar Gaertner. "Except for Germany and the UK, no EU-Member State asks for a reduction of CO2-emissions and a precise accounting of this now", he writes. "Others leave a much bigger manoeuvre space for economic growth and manipulations", Gaertner concludes.

Austrian Economics is the great hit at the University of Economics in Prague, a university having 14,000 students. Together with his colleague Josef Sima, Jiri Schwarz, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Public Administration and President of the Prague Liberalni Institute, made Austrian Economics populart in his faculty. Hardy Bouillon, this term Visiting Professor at the University of Economics, spoke with Josef Sima on the revival of Austrian Economics in Prague.

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Dr. Hardy Bouillon is Head of Academic Affairs at the Centre for the New Europe.