By Benita Dodd

Atlanta – How did it happen? Retail giant Wal-Mart is called “bad for America” and ethical lapses at Enron “business as usual.” Outsourcing “sends American jobs overseas” and a profit motive is “corporate greed.” It’s no wonder going into business is like taking transit: a great idea – for someone else, that is.

But the American Dream is still a noble pursuit, says Dr. Richard Ebeling, President of the New York-based Foundation for Economic Education. Attend the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s noon Policy Briefing Luncheon at Atlanta's Commerce Club on Wednesday, April 12 – and bring your cynical friends – to hear the renowned professor of economics explain “Morality and the Marketplace: Why Being in Business Isn’t a Bad Thing.”

Dr. Ebeling, former Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College in Michigan, has been President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) since May 2003. A passionate advocate of free markets and constitutionally limited government, he has written, edited and contributed to more than 30 books and published numerous articles. He lectures globally and is a popular guest on radio and TV talk shows.

He has not only written and lectured about the cause of liberty, he has also lived it. In 1991, while consulting on market reform and privatization in the former Soviet Union, he joined the defenders of freedom and faced the Soviet tanks in Vilnius, Lithuania, and again in Moscow, during the attempted hard-line communist insurrection.

In 1996 he discovered the “lost papers” of Ludwig von Mises in a formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow and brought to America copies of virtually the entire collection of 10,000 pages. He is currently completing the editorial work of the papers, “Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises,” published by Liberty Fund. He earned a degree in economics at California State University, Sacramento, a master’s at Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. at Middlesex University in London.

Reserve your seat by Monday, April 10, for the Policy Briefing Luncheon, which costs $25 for Foundation members/guests and $30 for non-members. Make reservations by mail with your check or MasterCard/Visa, e-mail reservations@gppf.org or call 404-256-4050.

Media interested in attending this event contact Benita Dodd at benitadodd@gppf.org or 404-256-4050.