Few students have the opportunity to learn the basic ethical and economic principles of open markets and free societies. Yet these principles are essential for understanding, appreciating, and preparing them for the world they will soon enter. The 2008 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar will help high-school and college students better understand real-world issues they will encounter throughout life.
Our five-day series of lectures, readings, films, multimedia presentations, and small group discussion teaches students what economics is, how it affects the world, and how understanding it can help them achieve better lives for themselves, their communities, and the world at large. Informative, inspiring, and fun, the 2008 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar is an ideal way to make summer vacation intellectually rewarding.
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Can the billions of people living below the poverty line teach the world a lesson about economics that most politicians and academics don’t seem to understand? Internationally acclaimed political analyst and author
Alvaro Vargas Llosa says they can. In
Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit (May 30, 2008/The Independent Institute/$16.95), Vargas Llosa and a team of economists examine a series of success stories from around the world and show how entrepreneurialism drives economic development.
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