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This Bradley Lecture is based on "The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise" (Basic Books, 2012), by AEI president Arthur C. Brooks. "The Road to Freedom" does what few other books on economic policy have done before—it makes the moral case for the free enterprise system. While more books analyze the material effects of free enterprise or the social ills it supposedly creates, Brooks examines what truly matters: how does free enterprise affect the moral center of American culture?

In this speech, Brooks demonstrates that free enterprise encapsulates the American notions of fairness and service to others and allows each individual to live a flourishing and prosperous life. No other system, Brooks claims, promotes these values as extensively as American free enterprise.