This past summer Bradley Hobbs, BB&T Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise, presented his lecture 'Is Business Immoral?' during Freedom Academy II in Estes Park, CO.
The introductory lecture explores the function of business in society and the morality of capitalism.
How has the West conquered famine? Does fresh fruit all year round have anything to do with declining hunger around the world? Why could the hundred-mile diet endanger the progress we've made? Host Janet Neilson will discuss these topics with the University of Toronto’s Dr. Pierre Desrochers.
Robert McNamara discusses what we can expect from our government and what we can do about it. Filmed at the 2011 FEE Summer Seminars.
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In this video from FEEs archive Professor Peter Lewin discusses Austrian Capital Theory with students attending a summer seminar in 2004. To watch this video uncut or to download the audio, go to http://ht.ly/1DBeJ.
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Benjamin Powell vs. Scott Beaulier
Resolved: “A free market in labor makes both the native population richer and reduces poverty worldwide.”
Sunday, August 3rd at 10:45am ET | Calvin College | Grand Rapids, MI
In this online class, Edward Stringham and Frederic Sautet will introduce students to fundamental concepts about entrepreneurship. They will discuss the role of entrepreneurial profit, government regulations, market ethics and economic development.
Why is it so controversial when the government commissions art? Is it crazy to spend millions of dollars on a painting? What is the most valuable art you own? The answers to these questions, and what they can teach us about life and each other, might surprise you.
There is no truly good way to measure unemployment, which makes it pretty easy for successive administrations to claim that unemployment is consistently improving. But when we do our level best to include all of the unemployed in the numbers, what we learn is that unemployment levels now are higher than they were at the beginning of the Great Recession. That’s the bad news. The good news is that things actually have been getting better over time. In this week’s episode, James and Antony take a look at the actual unemployment numbers to get to the bottom of what they really mean.
Get the facts here:
https://fee.org/articles/you-cant-trust-unemployment-statistics/