Capitalism & Morality

“This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom.”
-Ron Paul

“To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.”

-Ludwig von Mises

Please join us in a Seminar to discuss the vital importance of social and economic liberty. We will explore how compromising liberty and morality in search of superficial egalitarianism and seeming security has put the West on a slippery and dangerous path.

Program (Saturday, 8 May 2010):

• 8:30 to 9am: Introduction by Jayant Bhandari
• 9 to 11am: “Character & a Free Society” by Lawrence W. Reed, President, Foundation for Economic Education, USA. As a journalist, Lawrence visited 69 countries; spent time with Contra rebels in Nicaragua; lived with Mozambique rebel forces; traveled with freedom activists in Poland
• 11 to 11:15am: Coffee
• 11:15 to 1:15pm: “Defending the Undefendable,” by Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics and Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, USA
• 1:15 to 2:15pm: Lunch
• 2:15 to 4pm: “How Capitalism Tames the Vices,” by Lila Rajiva, author of The Language of Empire (Monthly Review Press, 2005)  and the bestselling Mobs, Messiahs and Markets (Wiley, 2007), co-authored with Bill Bonner
• 4 to 4:15pm: Coffee
• 4:15 to 4:45pm: Closing remarks by Paul Geddes, Vice-President, West Coast Libertarian Foundation, Canada

Cost: Early-bird offer; $80 per person, $40 for students; lunch & coffee covered by the admission fee

Date: Saturday, 8 May 2010

Venue:
Event Rooms 1300-1500
Segal Graduate School of Business
500 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1W6
(This is an independent event, not affiliated with the School)

“Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts”

-Ayn Rand

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”
-Murray Rothbard

“…if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.”
-F. A. Hayek

“The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.”
-Harry Browne

“Morally acting man seeks profit; immorally acting man seeks plunder.”
-Jay S. Snelson

REGISTER:

Jayant Bhandari
1502-1189 Melville Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6E4T8
Telephone: +1-604-288-7569
Email: contact@jayantbhandari.com

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