Capitalism vs. Socialism at LibertyCon 2018
The debate of the year is taking place at LibertyCon! March 2018, Economist Bryan Caplan and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, will face off in a debate on economic systems.
Capitalism vs. Socialism 2018
Bryan Caplan takes on Chris Hedges
This LibertyCon special session revives the debate on capitalism in a spirit of intellectual openness and education. Caplan will defend capitalism and the market processes that made the modern world rich and keep making us richer. Hedges, on the other hand, believes that organizing human behavior “around the dictates of the global marketplace,” has been disastrous. He’ll defend the position that socialism supports a better society than laissez faire capitalism.
We’re proud to host this important debate, sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies, at LibertyCon 2018. Get your ticket here before prices go up on Saturday, November 18th!
The weekend features an amazing speaker line up, including tech titan John McAfee, anarchist economist David Friedman, Canadian MP Maxime “Mad Max” Bernier, Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report, economist Deirdre McCloskey, and many many more. Plus, we’ve made travel scholarships up to $150, along with flight discounts, and hotel rooms available to students in the United States and Canada. Click here to learn more about travel options!
Then, get ready for a great debate at LibertyCon 2018.
Here are your contenders:
Bryan Caplan, Economist at George Mason University
Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and blogger for EconLog. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and The Case Against Education, forthcoming in 2017 from Princeton University Press. He is currently working on All Roads Lead to Open Borders, a non-fiction graphic novel on the philosophy and social science of immigration, and Poverty: Who To Blame. He has published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, and appeared on ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN. An openly nerdy man who loves role-playing games and graphic novels, he lives in Oakton, Virginia, with his wife and four kids.
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, New York Times best selling author, former professor at Princeton University, activist and ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 11 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. His other books include “Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt,” (2015) “Death of the Liberal Class” (2010), “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and has sold over 400,000 copies. He writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig in Los Angeles, run by Robert Scheer, and hosts a show, On Contact, on RT America.
Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University. He spent a year studying classics at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif. In 2014 he was ordained as a minister for social witness at the Second Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, N.J. The theologian James Cone, the father of Black Liberation Theology, preached the sermon along with Cornel West. The ordination was approved for his work in New Jersey prisons where Hedges has taught college credit courses for nearly a decade. Hedges, who was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and grew up in a small farm town in upstate New York where his father served as a Presbyterian minister, lives in Princeton, N.J. He is married to the Canadian actress Eunice Wong, with whom he has two children. He has two children from a previous marriage.