[Peace] Economic Freedom, Civil War and Human Well-Being

[Dianna Visek]

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.  Dr. Matthew Brown will speak on “Economic Freedom, Civil War and Human Well-Being.”  Everyone is welcome to attend.
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.
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. 
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. 
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.
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.
The Urbana Free Library would like you to know that they’re not sponsoring our program.
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