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About the Free Market Forum. The Hillsdale College Center for the Study of Monetary Systems and Free Enterprise administers the Free Market Forum, which encourages the study of free enterprise by bringing scholars together for dynamic exchanges of ideas on topics related to free market economics.

Du Pont and the other Physiocrats advocated the removal of restrictions on internal trade, the free movement of labor, the abolition of state sponsored monopolies and trading privileges, and the dismantling of the guild system, all of which advanced free trade and free market thought. Du Pont emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1799.

The resulting market economy would increase national wealth and benefit all citizens with increased goods. Second, property rights have long been linked with individual liberty. “Property must be secured,” John Adams succinctly observed in 1790, “or liberty cannot exist.”

Free Market Forum – The Case for Freer Immigration 3 rights.12 At the time, American protestant nativists condemned Catholic immigration, claiming that a massive wave of Catholic immigrants to America would fundamentally alter America’s political institutions. In fact, the exact opposite happened. The massive wave fundamentally

A free market and free trade can also be corrupting to the human soul, if wealth is the only goal. Private charity is made possible by the profits of free trade. Charity is an efficient means of helping the poor, and it nourishes the soul. In short, the discussion on free trade versus fair trade needs to rise above the Marxist bias

In a free market economy, competing in a free trade world, there will still be need for charity. We will always have the poor among us, even if only the disabled and the afflicted. Free trade can improve life, but it cannot make men perfect in a world cursed with sin. Free trade promotes the level of prosperity that makes charity possible.

While conservative think tanks continued to pump out free-market solutions to U.S. healthcare failings, few Republican politicians took up these reforms. The party in 2006 lost its control of Congress, weakening its ability to lead on the healthcare debate just as the need for leadership once again became urgent.

increasingly receptive to an emerging free market economy based on private contracts. The framers of the Constitution treated private property as the cornerstone of a free society. “Perhaps the most important value of the Founding Fathers of the American constitutional period,” a

To get a sense of the nature of water market transactions Brewer, et al (2008) assembled a data set on all water market activities in the 12 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, and Washington) from 1987-2005 from the Water Strategist.