Big Business and the Free Society
ABSTRACT
Business professionals and civic leaders discussed the validity of common arguments against markets in general and big business in particular, with Tyler Cowen's recent book, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero, as the main reading.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Brook, Yaron and Don Watkins. Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.
Coase, Ronald. The Firm, the Market, and the Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Cowen, Tyler. Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.
Den Uyl, Douglas J. “A Stake in the Heart of Capitalism.” Law & Liberty. https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/09/09/stakeholder-capitalism-business-roundtable/ (September 9, 2019).
Jensen, Michael C. A Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Mises, Ludwig von. The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality. Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2006.
Rand, Ayn., “What Is Capitalism?” In Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, New York: Signet (New American Library), 1967. Page(s): 11-34.
Rand, Ayn., “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business.” In Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, New York: Signet (New American Library), 1967. Page(s): 44-62.