Mont Pelerin Society Essay Competition

Interested in Freedom? 

Win a place at a conference in Nairobi on Freedom entitled

The Institutional Framework for Freedom in Africa

25^th – 28^th February 2007

www.mpskenya2007.org

This competition is open to Africans living in Africa, aged 30 years or below on 31^st December 2006.

Participants must submit an essay of between 1000 - 1500 words on one of the three following titles which are taken from the condensed version of ‘The Road to Serfdom’ by Friedrich Hayek

• “The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual”
• “Private Property is the most important guarantee of freedom”
• “Competition is the only method of co-ordinating human effort which does not require the coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority”

Entries must be submitted on an email attachment no later than 31^st October 2006 and the results will be posted on the web site ww.mpskenya2007.org before January 14^th 2007. Everyone submitting an essay by 31^st October will receive a free copy of the CD “Ideas for a Free Society”.

The authors of the best two submissions will receive a fully funded invitation to attend the Mont Pelerin Special Meeting in Nairobi, February 25^th – 28^th 2007.  Hotel and registration fee paid, sharing a room possibly, economy class flight plus $500

For further details please contact James Shikwati on jshikwati@mpskenya2007.org cc directorsoffice@irenkenya.com