ISPE Speaker Series: How Entrepreneurs – Not Government – Built America
Wed., Nov. 15 • 5 p.m. • WB 152
Distinguished historian Dr. Burt Folsom will discuss the critical differences between the market entrepreneurs and political entrepreneurs who played important roles in the economic growth of America. While market entrepreneurs relied on their hard work, creativity, and self-reliance to develop America’s greatest innovations, political entrepreneurs relied on the American government and taxpayers to fund their efforts. Which approach truly contributed to America becoming the greatest economy in the world?
Dr. Burt Folsom is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska, and has been a college professor at many places, including Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he still serves as a distinguished fellow. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh.
A distinguished economic historian, Dr. Folsom is the author of ten books, including The Myth of the Robber Barons (published by Young America’s Foundation); Uncle Sam Can’t Count; and FDR Goes to War. He has also written New Deal or Raw Deal? that describes FDR’S disastrous New Deal program, which attacked free enterprise and slowed down America’s recovery from the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Sponsored in part by Young America’s Foundation.