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2008 Summer Seminar for Students: Now Enrolling for August

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. Learn more.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa on Entrepreneurialism

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. Keep reading.


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U.S. Supreme Court to Determine Meaning of Second Amendment (6/6/2008)

From Peru to Nigeria, Entrepreneurs are Battling Poverty (5/30/2008)

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Rancor and History (7/2/2008)
Carlos Alberto Montaner

Agricultural Policy: The Seen and the Unseen (7/2/2008)
Ernest C. Pasour Jr., Randal R. Rucker

Obama and Latin America (7/2/2008)
Alvaro Vargas Llosa

That Cell Phone Ban (7/1/2008)
Anthony Gregory

A Victory and a Warning (7/1/2008)
William J. Watkins Jr.

Can the Air Force Be Reformed? (6/30/2008)
Ivan Eland

Supreme Court Affirms Individual Right: What’s Next? (6/26/2008)
Don B. Kates, Jr.

Killing the Golden Goose (6/25/2008)
Alvaro Vargas Llosa

The Democrats Betray the Fourth Amendment (6/24/2008)
Anthony Gregory

Lessons for Iraq from the Former Yugoslavia (6/23/2008)
Ivan Eland



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