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Video: Arthur Brooks on ‘The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise’
Video: Arthur Brooks on ‘The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise’
Oct 10, 2024 5:31 AM

Prager University has a new course up and running. The lecturer? Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It as well as the recently published The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise. Brooks’ lecture, titled “Earning Happiness: The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise,” makes a case for the free market as the economic system most conducive to human welfare. In the lecture, Brooks says, “Free enterprise matters not just because of its unparalleled material benefits but because of its unparalleled moral benefits.”

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The Prager University course page can be found here.

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