<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I welcome libertarians who wish to work together against U.S. foreign policies.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Nevertheless, the views of Mattthew Brown & the ACLG are stupid, venal, and disgusting. Instead, let's invite someone to talk about the earth being flat.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>David Green</span></div><div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height:
0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dianna Visek <divisek@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Peace List <peace@lists.chambana.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:18 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Peace] Economic Freedom, Civil War and Human Well-Being<br></font><br>
<div id="yiv373049645"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv373049645MsoNormal"><font face="Book Antiqua"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;">The Champaign County Libertarian Party will hold its monthly meeting at 7 pm on Thursday Oct. 13 in the auditorium of the Urbana Free Library.<span> </span>Dr. Matthew Brown will speak on “Economic Freedom, Civil War and Human Well-Being</span><font size="3">.”<span> </span>Everyone is welcome to attend.</font></font></div>
<div style="margin: auto 0in;" class="yiv373049645msonormal"><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Economic freedom, the freedom to engage in personal activity and business activity with limited interference by the state, has broad implications for human and social well-being. The ability of free-market, capitalist economies to produce superior gains in financial well-being is now widely acknowledged, but much criticism remains concerning the impact of capitalism on broader measures of human well-being including, significantly, violence either through state sponsors or individuals. But significant theoretical and empirical evidence exists that shows that capitalism and economic freedom produce not only greater wealth but also more peaceful, happier societies. The incentives created by markets to encourage cooperation have led world-wide to a decrease in violence at the national and international
level wherever capitalism has been unleashed.</span><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin: auto 0in;" class="yiv373049645msonormal"><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Dr. Matthew Brown is the President and CEO of the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation. He holds B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees in economics from The Florida State University, an MA in economics from The American University and did graduate work in history at Montana State University. </span><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin: auto 0in;" class="yiv373049645msonormal"><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Prior to joining the Academy Dr. Brown was director of higher education philanthropy for the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation where he helped develop broad national philanthropic support for educational programs, faculty positions, and student fellowships. He is a co-founder, with Daniel Klein, and former managing editor of Econ Journal Watch, a widely-read online peer-reviewed journal providing scholarly comments on academic economics. </span><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin: auto 0in;" class="yiv373049645msonormal"><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Dr. Brown has taught economics at Santa Clara University, where he also served as a faculty fellow of the Civil Society Institute and at Montana State University. His teaching interests include principles of economics, economic history, and environmental economics. Prior to his teaching career he worked in public policy research at PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana.</span><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin: auto 0in;" class="yiv373049645msonormal"><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Dr. Brown’s research interests include the economics of historic and natural resource preservation, economic freedom and social welfare, and the intersection of economics and social and cultural history.</span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin: auto 0in;" class="yiv373049645msonormal"><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>The Urbana Free Library would like you to know that they’re not sponsoring our program.</span><span style='font-family: "serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span></div>
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