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March 27— The Importance of Freedom and Free Enterprise in America

February 15 — Is Capitalism Sustainable?

The Importance of Freedom and Free Enterprise in America — March 27

The FMI hosted Steve Forbes, Chairmain and Editor-in-Chief, at Angelo State University on March 27, 2024, to present a public lecture on The Importance of Freedom and Free Enterprise in America.

Mr. Forbes discussed how freedom and the free enterprise system have enriched the United States and what steps are necessary to ensure our prosperity in the future.

A video recording of the FMI Public Speaker Series lecture featuring Steve Forbes at Texas Tech University (TTU) on March 26, 2024 can be found on the TTU FMI Event Archives page. 

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Is Capitalism Sustainable? — February 15

Michael Munger presented a public lecture at Angelo State University on February 15, 2024. Based on his book, Is Capitalism Sustainable? (2019), he explains the benefits, and in fact the necessity, of capitalism in organizing human cooperation at scale, and urges the consideration of some problems inherent in capitalism.

Karl Marx called some of these problems “contradictions,” and while he was wrong about many things, including a value theory based on embodied labor, his perceptions of capitalism were very accurate. The problem for Marxists, Prof. Munger says: every flaw in markets is worse under socialism.

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