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Lawrence Reed's Myths of the Great Depression

Thursday, February 26, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Babson Park, FL

Lawrence Reed's Myths of the Great Depression

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Remaining Sales End Price Fee Quantity
General Admission (Free)   more info 83 tickets Ended $0.00 $0.00
Webber Faculty and Staff (Free)   more info 29 tickets Ended $0.00 $0.00
Webber Student (Free)   more info 57 tickets Ended $0.00 $0.00
Wine and Cheese Reception   more info 83 tickets Ended $25.00 $0.00
Optional Donation to FEE   more info Ended
Optional Donation to Webber   more info Ended

Event Details

Enjoy an evening with Lawrence Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education, as he delivers his popular lecture, Myths of the Great Depression.  Hosted by Webber International University.  One of the nation's first business schools for women (now coed for decades), Webber was founded by Roger Babson, who is credited with having predicted the Great Depression.

Admission to this event is free, but because of limited capacity, tickets are required. 

The lecture begins promptly at 7:00pm in the Rex R. Yentes Conference Center at Webber International University.  On-campus parking is free of charge.  The Rex R. Yentes Conference Center is a barrier free building.

A pre-event wine and cheese reception (separately ticketed event) begins at 6:00pm.   Meet Mr. Reed and others interested in the free market economics.

About the Foundation for Economic Education (from their webpage, www.Fee.org): The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), one of the oldest free-market organizations in the United States, was founded in 1946 by Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy. FEE’s mission is to offer the most consistent case for the “first principles” of freedom: the sanctity of private property,Foundation for Economic Education individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and the moral superiority of individual choice and responsibility over coercion.

 

When & Where



Webber International University
1201 N. Scenic Highway
Babson Park, FL 33827

Thursday, February 26, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)


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Webber International University



Established in 1927 as the first private college chartered under Florida’s then new charitable and educational laws and one of the nation’s first business schools for women, Webber International University now hosts men and women from some 47 different nations. 

Recognized by the US News and World Reports as an America's Best College, the Princeton Review as a “Best in the Southeast” college, and GI Jobs as a Military Friendly School, the SACS and IACBE accredited not-for-profit independent University offers degrees exclusively in the areas of business at the associate’s and bachelor’s levels (Accounting, Computer Information Systems Management, Corporate Communications, Finance, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Management, Marketing, Pre-Law, Security Management, and Sport Management) and at the master’s level (MBA, MBA with an emphasis in Accounting, MBA with an emphasis in International Business, MBA with an emphasis in Security Management, and MBA with an emphasis in Sport Management).