Wednesday, May 18, 2011

In Defense of Free Enterprise: The Morality of Profit


The free market needs a moral defense.

Today, free market capitalism is under attack more than any other time in our nation’s history, whether the target is Wall Street, oil companies, or as Annie Leonard would have it, our whole system of wealth creation in general.

Many Americans are still confused about what went wrong on Wall Street during the 08′ financial crisis, and the distinction between free market capitalism and its ugly half sibling, crony capitalism, can be difficult for many to discern.

Enter the Atlas Network’s 2011 Morality of Free Enterprise Initiative, and its latest video explaining this important and often overlooked distinction.




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