Mark your calendar for April 20th,2021. That is when the Political Economy Research Institute of Middle Tennessee State University will host the Zoom lecture, Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich!
It is not to early to register.

About the Event: "Finger-wagging moralizers say the love of money is the root of all evil. They assume that making a lot of money requires exploiting others, and that the best way to wash off the resulting stain is to give a lot of it away. In Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich, Jason Brennan shows that the moralizers have it backwards. He argues that, in general, the more money you make, the more you already do for others, and that even an average wage earner is productively “giving back” to society just by doing her job. In addition, wealth liberates us to have the best chance of leading a life that’s authentically our own."

About the Speaker: Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He specializes in politics, philosophy, and economics. He currently has 7 books under contract with Oxford University Press and Routledge Press, at least 2 of which will be published in 2022. He is the author of 13 books, including Why It's OK to Want to Be Rich (Routledge Press 2020), Good Work if You Can Get It (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020); Injustice for All: America's Dysfunctional Criminal Justice System and How to Fix It, with Christopher Surprenant (Routledge, 2019); Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education, with Phil Magness (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Martha and I would like you to join us for a Zoom event on September 16, 2020.

In cooperation with Middle Tennessee State University’s Political Economy Research Institute Martha and I are sponsoring a series of lectures on free enterprise. We would like you to Join us for the first lecture in the series. It is a virtual discussion with author and historian Dr. Burt Folsom Jr. (visiting professor of Economic History at Kennesaw State University). Dr. Folsom will focus on his book, Uncle Sam Can't Count: A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy, coauthored with his wife, Anita Folsom.

The event will be held Wednesday, September. 16, 2020 from 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Central Time). It is a private community event that requires registration to join the Zoom lecture and Q&A session. To register go to https://mtsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wrc2JqmlRNibewzwPv15bw.

More about the Political Economy Research Institute and the planned Lectures:

“The Institute’s mission is to engage undergraduate and graduate students with faculty in research that will further the understanding of business and economic principles, as well as their impact on regional, national, and international financial conditions and the wellbeing of society. To advance its mission, the Institute will engage in research and educational programs which uncover the institutions and policies that encourage and enhance human wellbeing.”

Cutting through the legalese, the Political Economy Research Institute’s programs promote an understanding of capitalism and its benefits. Sometime after my wife and I finished our formal education, educators apparently stopped teaching the benefits of our free market system. Nor did our generation share often enough what our own life experiences had taught us— that while we prospered under capitalism and our free market system, nations with top down government run systems decayed. Those systems invariably led to oppression and a decline in the wealth and wellbeing of their citizens. Maybe we thought the principles we believed in were self-evident; apparently, they were not. So, we have some ground to make up, and that is why Martha and I decided to give our support to Middle Tennessee State University by creating the M. Thomas Collins and Martha R. Collins Lectures in Free Enterprise.

Hope to see you there on September 16th.

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Wanting to be Rich is Ok!

Invitation From Tom and Martha Collins