The evidence is clear that increased economic freedom leads to increased prosperity in societies around the world.
But the consequentialist argument in favor of economic freedom ? in other words, the argument that freedom leads to good results ? hasn?t been enough to counter the arguments that capitalism is immoral or, at best, amoral.
Scott Beaulier, director of the new Center for Political Economy at Troy University, told a Campbell University crowd Tuesday night that a capitalist system promoting economic freedom is moral.
Click play below to watch Beaulier?s 51:34 presentation for Campbell?s Politics, Law, and Economics lecture series.
