The spring 2014 Capitalism and Society lecture is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 24, at 4:30 p.m. in the AgCountry Auditorium at Richard H. Barry Hall
The lecture series seeks to engage the broader community on issues that relate morality and ethics to liberty and free markets. The lecture is free and open to the public and students from any of the Tri-College Universities are especially encouraged to attend.
The featured speaker is Bonnie Wilson, associate professor of economics at Saint Louis University. She will present “The market is moral. Are we? Does it matter?”
Wilson also is a research fellow at the Show-Me Institute, a research and educational institute dedicated to advancing liberty with responsibility and to the study of state and local public policy issues in the state of Missouri. She earned undergraduate degrees in economics, international business and music from Saint Louis University and a doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Wilson’s most recent work examines the growth effects of the interplay between lobbying and economic freedom and the impact of special-interest groups on economic growth, volatility and banking crises.
The Capitalism and Society lecture series is organized by Jeremy Jackson, assistant professor of agribusiness and applied economics.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.