The Foundation for Economic Education — FEE to its many admirers — has fought for liberty since just after the Second World War.
“Fee’s Lawrence W. Reed: How Having the Government Run the Economy Is a Recipe for Disaster” is the second of three videos from Reason.tv that I will post today.
Here’s the accompanying description from Reason.tv:
The Foundation for Economic Education, or FEE, is one of the oldest libertarian organizations in the country. Founded in 1946 by Leonard Read, FEE holds seminars, publishes The Freeman, and has inspired generations of classical liberals and free-market thinkers.
Lawrence W. Reed has headed up FEE since September 2008, after two decades running the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
In this Reason.tv interview, conducted by Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch at the Freedom Fest conference in Las Vegas, Reed talks about how he first came to his politics in 1968 because of Czechoslovakia’s “Prague Spring,” and how the mission of teaching free-market economics remains as urgent as ever in 2009.
Approximately 5 and a half minutes. Shot and edited by Dan Hayes.