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Keeping Free Enterprise in Business
So, we have had one critical task-- to go public with
the good news about our American incentive system.
Harding University is not merely a propagandist for the
system. The goal is to assist people, both opinion
leaders and the masses, to understand the facts of
economic and political life. The results are a more
responsible citizenry, and a more productive work
force.
Dr. Irving Kristal once warned about what will
happen if the relationship between morality and
capitalism is forgotten:
To the degree that we fail to appreciate that
capitalism involves educating young people to
certain standards ofwhat is good, what is proper,
what is desirable, until we begin to understand
that that is what capitalism is, I think that
economists, who at the moment are regarded as
the prime defenders ofcapitalism, will yet end up
making capitalism utterly defenseless before its
enemies.
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