"The Truth About Americans’ Standard of Living" with Don J. Boudreaux

Schedule

Thu Jan 27 2022 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Richland Country Club | Nashville, TN

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AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville will host an event with Don Boudreaux, Senior Fellow at AIER.
About this Event

AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville will host an event with Don Boudreaux, Senior Fellow at AIER and the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Mercatus Center Board Member, and a professor of economics and former economics-department chair at George Mason University.

"Over the past 40 or 50 years, America’s middle class has stagnated! It’s being hollowed-out! The rewards of economic growth are being captured only by the rich!"

This claim is made incessantly. It’s repeated as if it’s an established fact. But it’s not only wrong, it’s spectacularly wrong. Since the 1970s, ordinary Americans’ standard of living has improved dramatically. Don Boudreaux has the evidence.

The Bastiat Society of Nashville’s speaker series is co-sponsored byThe Beacon Center of Tennessee & The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) (affiliated with Middle Tennessee State University).

This co-sponsorship does not necessarily constitute endorsement of the speakers’ positions on the issues discussed. Eventbrite Ticket Required.

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Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30PM: Networking

6:30 - 7:15PM: Presentation

7:15 - 7:30PM: Q&A

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Ticket Prices:

$0 for Founding Members

$10 for Annual Members

$20 for Non-Members

$0 for Actively enrolled university students who register with a .edu email address. Those who register with a non- .edu email address will be unregistered and asked to purchase tickets at full price.

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More about the speaker: Donald J. Boudreaux is a Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Mercatus Center Board Member, and a professor of economics and former economics-department chair at George Mason University. He holds the Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center. He specializes in globalization and trade, law and economics, and antitrust economics.Boudreaux is committed to making economics more accessible to a wider audience, and he has lectured across the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe on a wide variety of topics, including antitrust law and international trade. He is the author of the books Hypocrites and Half-Wits: A Daily Dose of Sanity from Cafe Hayek and Globalization. His articles appear in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and US News & World Report as well as numerous scholarly journals. He writes a blog (with Russell Roberts) called Cafe Hayek and a regular column on economics for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He has appeared numerous times on John Stossel’s Fox show to discuss a range of economic issues.Previously, he was president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an associate professor of legal studies and economics at Clemson University. He also serves as an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.Boudreaux earned a PhD in economics from Auburn University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.

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Richland Country Club, 1 Club Drive, Nashville, United States

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