President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is perhaps the single most important and controversial law passed in the last 50 years. But is it constitutional?
Two distinguished constitutional scholars debate this issue, which is now before the Supreme court.
TYLER COWEN delivers Fall 2011 Pope Lecture
The Great Stagnation
America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multi-decade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess? Full description
C. Bradley Thompson Featured Speaker - USC Upstate Second Annual Constitution Day
The University of South Carolina Upstate will host its second annual Constitution Day on Wednesday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Campus Life Center Ballroom. This event is held in commemoration of the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. Event Flyer Link to full event description.
Dr. Tom G. Palmer to speak on "The Morality of Capitalism"
How do free markets create justice and prosperity? Capitalism is a legal, social, economic, and cultural system that embraces equality of rights and that engergizes decentralized innovation through the voluntary processes of market exchange. Capitalism is not just about peole trading butter for eggs in local markets, it's about adding value through the mobilization of human energy and ingenuity on a scale nevr seen before in human history, to create wealth for all people.
Alan Charles Kors delivers Spring 2011 Pope Lecture
Socialism's Legacy: Lest We Forget
Talk description: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many optimists claimed that the world was now somehow "after socialism." There are reasons, however—structural, political, moral, and intellectual—why the collapse of Communism did not entail the end of socialism. This talk will explain why there can be no "after socialism" until the West comes to ultimate terms with the catastrophic legacy of international communism.
C. Bradley Thompson delivers lectures in Santiago, Chile
During the week of January 10, Clemson Institute Executive Director C. Bradley Thompson visited Santiago, Chile, where he delivered nine lectures to 50 students from all over Latin America on "The Principles and Institutions of a Free Society." The event was sponsored by The Fund For American Studies and its Institute for Leadership in the Americas.
Eric Daniels delivers TEDx Lecture
*At the March 2010 TEDx Greenville event, CISC Professor Eric Daniels gave a lecture titled "The Moral Case for the Free Market."
2011 Student Summer Conference Announced
The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism is pleased to announce its fifth annual summer conference for undergraduate and graduate students. We invite you to join us for an exciting three-day program of lectures, seminars, and discussions: May 26th and
depart on May 30th.
President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is perhaps the single most important and controversial law passed in the last 50 years. But is it constitutional?
