Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral And Big Government Isn't

The coming 2012 presidential election is not only about the choice of a president. From the media to the dinner table, debates rage over health care, the environment, entitlements, and education. They beg the question: What kind of society do we want to be? Should we put our trust in free markets, or Big Government?

Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media and former presidential candidate, and co-author Elizabeth Ames, give this debate a new and surprising twist. Today's bureaucratic and bloated Big Government, the authors argue, is the opposite of a moral force. Instead of assuring fairness, it promotes favoritism. Instead of furthering opportunity, it stifles economic growth. Instead of unleashing innovation and material abundance, its regulations and price controls create rigidity and scarcity.

The only way to a truly fair and moral society, the authors say, is through economic freedomfree people and free markets. Throughout history, open markets have helped the poor and everyone else by unleashing unprecedented creativity, generating wealth and raising living standards. Promoting trust, generosity and democracy, economic freedom has been a more powerful force for individual rights, self-determinationand humanitythan any government bureaucracy.

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Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral And Big Government Isn't