<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" 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 style="RIGHT: auto; mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Matthew Brown will speak on “Economic Freedom, Civil War and Human Well-Being</SPAN><FONT size=3>.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everyone is welcome to attend.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: auto 0in" class=yiv1501300119msonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">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: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: auto 0in; BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1501300119msonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">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: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: auto 0in; BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1501300119msonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">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: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: auto 0in; BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1501300119msonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">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: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: auto 0in; BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1501300119msonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: auto 0in; BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1501300119msonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The Urbana Free Library would like you to know that they’re not sponsoring our program.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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