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The Three Best Arguments against Liberal Capitalism

Stephen Hicks

1 Min

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October 13, 2015

The case for a free society is strong but many remain unconvinced. Why? In this lecture Stephen Hicks presents three of the strongest arguments against liberal capitalism and then responds to them.

Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford College and executive director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship there. His works include Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics, Nietzsche and the Nazis, and Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.

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