Q-&-A Highlights: Capitalism

 

This page features highlights from the Q-&-A session of a lecture by Yaron Brook, recorded at the University of California, Irvine, on April 14, 2008. The talk was titled "Why Unregulated Capitalism Is the Only Moral System."

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Question 1

How interest rates would be set without a Federal Reserve.

Question 2

Is there a connection between anti-semitism and altruism?

Question 3

A question on whether unregulated capitalism would result in pollution and inadequate health care for children.

Question 4

How can unregulated capitalism exist indefinitely in a world of finite resources?

Question 5

What is the market solution to climate change?

Question 6

What is unregulated capitalism's moral view of Enron's manipulation of California's energy supplies to increase Enron's profits?

Question 7

How is it possible to bring about capitalism in today's culture?

Question 8

What would happen to health care under capitalism?

Question 9

Enron, self-interest, and the use of force.

Question 10

Is there any encouraging news on the advancement of Objectivism?

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