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Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s “Need to Know” informational series explores current events and recent scholarship on public policy issues from a free-market economics perspective.

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Making the Moral Argument: School Choice

April 16, 2013

Arguments in support of a free enterprise system often times are bogged down by materialistic defenses like growing GDP faster or lowering unemployment rates. But Economic Freedom provides more benefits than just material things, and should be defended for moral reasons as well.

Making the Moral Argument: Fairness

April 12, 2013

Don't be afraid to talk about the argument of economic "fairness"--89% of people believe fairness is being able to keep what you earn.

Remembering Margaret Thatcher: The Free Society Speech

April 08, 2013

Lady Thatcher’s words of wisdom help to remind us that advancing economic freedom is important “not only because it guarantees our liberties, but also because it is the best way of creating wealth and prosperity for the whole country.”

40 Years Ago Today, Martin Cooper Made First Cell Phone Call

April 03, 2013

Forty years ago today, Martin “Marty” Cooper made the first cell phone call in history. The phone, a DynaTAC 8000x, weighed 2.5 pounds and vaguely resembled a traditional landline phone. Today’s cell phones in no way resemble those of the past. We carry around touchscreen mini-computers that give us access to more information than we [...]

Top Three Common Myths of Capitalism

April 01, 2013

Is being pro-business and pro-capitalism the same? Does capitalism generate an unfair distribution of income? Was capitalism responsible for the most recent financial crisis? Dr. Jeffrey Miron at Harvard answers these questions by exposing three common myths of capitalism.

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