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57th Annual Financial Literacy & Economic Education Conference

Atlanta, Georgia

Fri October 5 to Sat October 6, 2018

SFL University of Minnesota Student Conference: Ending the War on Drugs

University of Minnesota, Minnesota

October 13, 2018 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

SFL Harvard University Student Conference: Fight For Justice

Harvard University, Massachusetts

October 13, 2018 9:30 AM-5:00 PM

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Real Heroes: Inspiring True Stories of Courage, Character, and Conviction

Lawrence W. Reed - Jul 20, 2016

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I, Pencil

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Poverty, Prosperity, and Opportunity

Learn about the causes of economic development, what drives income and wealth inequality, and how social enterprises and entrepreneurship can help communities grow and thrive, even when government policy gets in the way.

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Entrepreneurs can use the economic way of thinking to make better decisions. Learn about scarcity, opportunity cost, and the broken window fallacy.

Entrepreneur's Role in Creating Value

Value is in the eye of the valuer. Entrepreneurs strive to rearrange production in a way that creates value for the consumer.

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Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era. In this essay based on a popular lecture, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) President Lawrence W. Reed debunks this conventional view and traces the central role that poor government policy played in fostering this legendary catastrophe.

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