Foundation for Teaching Economics

Understanding Liberty & Choice: Property Rights in American History
Welcome to the FTE blog supporting the joint FTE/Liberty Fund conference on Property Rights in American History to be held Dec. 4 - 6, 2008, in Denver.

We are delighted that you will be participating in this conference. As you're aware, the conference combines presentations, interactive learning, and Socratic Seminar sessions. This pre-conference blog has several functions: First, it is designed to introduce you to your Socratic seminar discussion group. Then, in a few weeks, we'll ask each of the 3 seminar discussion groups to help us in planning the panel presentations and formulating questions for the panelists - but that's down the road a little way. For now, we just want you to get to know one another.


There will be 3 Socratic Seminar groups in Denver, and you've been assigned to the BLUE group. All members of your Socratic Seminar group have been invited to join this blog. Given the range of experience with online conversation, we'll start simply - by meeting one another.