The "Market Failure" Fallacy
Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 6:30pm
Hilton Costa Mesa
In contemporary economics textbooks there is typically at least one chapter devoted to the topic of "market failure", where it is claimed that capitalism leads to undesirable results, such as the creation of monopolies, harmful environmental effects, and an unjust "distribution" of income. In this talk, Dr. Brian P. Simpson, associate professor and chair of the Department of Management and Marketing at National University in San Diego, attacks the notion of "market failure", arguing for the moral and productive superiority of capitalism, the immorality and destructive economic consequences of environmentalism, and the need to integrate economic analysis with Ayn Rand's revolutionary moral theory of rational egoism in order to properly defend capitalism.
6:30pm: Bookstore Opens
7:30pm: Lecture
8:30pm: Q & A



