Can Catholics Defend Free Enterprise? | Prof. Jay Richards

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This lecture was given at Tulane University on February 4, 2020.

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Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the author of many books including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012). He is also the author of Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; and co-author of The Privileged Planet with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. His most recent book is “Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Fasting.”

Richards is a Research Assistant Professor in the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and executive editor of The Stream. In recent years he has been Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, Contributing Editor of The American at the American Enterprise Institute, a Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute.

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0:00.0	I wanted to give you a little background because I was supposed to be here a year ago, and about three days before I was supposed to be here, I was living, we were living in a townhouse right behind the Dominican House of Studies, which is the entity that sponsors these events.
0:17.0	And I lived in a four-story townhouse, and I stepped off the top stair on the fourth and I ruptured my quadtendent, which is the thing that connects your quadricep to your knee on this leg.
0:27.6	Completely detached it had to be carried four slides down.
0:30.6	So I had this mental association of this trauma because it happened, I had to email and said, I don't think I'm coming anywhere.
0:38.8	So it was weeks of physical therapy.
0:39.9	So I'm still actually recovering.
0:41.6	And I almost didn't get here tonight because I got on a plane in Chicago.
0:44.9	I was coming from Missouri at another talk.
0:47.1	And the plane broke that I was on.
0:49.6	It was always a bad sign and had to file off.
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:53.2	So I actually changed clothes in the Catholic Center.
0:55.1	We actually ironed it and so it was really good to be here. And so I'm actually a philosopher
1:02.0	that teaches in a business school. And so I spend really more time. I had not planned on
1:07.5	spending most of my career trying to defend to Catholics and other Christians
1:12.6	the free enterprise system. That is, to defend it as the best of the live alternatives.
1:17.6	And so I wrote this book called Money Green God in 2009, and we redid it again this summer.
1:22.6	When I first wrote it, my editor was sort of mad at me because I have a whole chapter about
1:26.6	communism and socialism in the beginning.
1:28.3	And it's because when I went to college in 1980s, I was actually transfixed by socialism.
1:33.3	I read the comments manifesto my freshman year. I knew absolutely nothing about economics.
1:38.3	I wasn't even studying economics or business.
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