Thanks to the generosity of a group of recent George Mason PhDs, the 
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is happy to announce 
the first annual Carl Menger Essay Contest for undergraduates. A summary 
is below, but the full flyer can be found here: 
http://it.stlawu.edu/sdae/Menger2010.pdf . Please encourage your 
undergraduate students to consider entering.

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The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to 
announce the inaugural Carl Menger Essay Contest. The purpose of the 
contest is to recognize and encourage undergraduate scholarship in the 
Austrian tradition and the broadly catallactic approach to social 
science which it represents, an approach common also to the Scottish 
Enlightenment of Smith and Hume, the French Liberal School of Say and 
Bastiat, the Virginia School of Buchanan and Tullock, the UCLA price 
theory of Alchian and Demsetz, and the Bloomington School of Vincent and 
Elinor Ostrom, among others. We invite essays that explore, advance, 
challenge, or apply the ideas of these and related schools of thought.

The contest is open to undergraduate students and recent graduates from 
any discipline. Entrants must be enrolled in undergraduate coursework at 
some point during the 2010 calendar year, and must not hold a Bachelor’s 
or equivalent degree as of January 31, 2010. Those graduating at the end 
of the spring or summer are eligible.

Three winners will receive $1,000 each conditional on attending and 
presenting their essays at the Society’s annual meeting at the Southern 
Economic Association conference (southerneconomic.org). The conference 
takes place on November 20-22, 2010 at the Sheraton Atlanta in Atlanta, 
Georgia.

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Steven Horwitz
Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Hepburn Hall
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
Tel 315 229 5731
Fax 315 229 5819
Web http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz