Location

We prepared a small colection of useful information, that will help you, PCPE participants, to make your stay in Prague during the PCPE as pleasant as possible. PCPE 2005 Participant Handbook is now available online for download in PDF format - PCPE Handbook [3.9 MB]

Prague, the capital city of Czech republic, counts among the most attractive European tourist destinations. For the members of the Austrian school of economics, however, it symbolizes also another significant point: Prague used to be an important center of the Austria-Hungary empire and therefore resembles feelings of the former cultural environment where the first three (and half) generations of Austrian economists were grown up. Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian school was studying here and Friedrich von Wieser, an important leader of the second generation, gained professorship at Deutsch University in Prague and finished here an important controversial book Natural Value. Conference in Prague represents formal merge of the old tradition on the one hand and new fast growing stream of Austrians at the University of Economics in Prague on the other hand.

Liberalni Institut is the most independent think-thank advocating ideas of classical liberalism, economic freedom and sound economics in Czech republic. Since its foundation in 1990, just after the Velvet revolution, it has been promoting these ideas on many fields - at universities; by organizing conferences, seminars, or summer universities; and last but not least through the vast array of publications. Its residence and seminar room situated in the very center of Prague will be opened for the conference participants during the Sunday sessions.

University of Economics in Prague is with its rough 15 000 students the biggest university of economics in the country. It is state founded (as the most universities in the region) and so is its Faculty of Economics and Public Administration. Nevertheless, it is probably the strongest intellectual free-market base in the central Europe. There are many specialized courses devoted to Austrian economics and many Austrian or Austrian-friendly professors and pedagogues.