Back when Claremont McKenna was awesome, it hosted some great and revolutionary conferences in economics, according to Sheldon Richman of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Here is what he wrote.
In 1958 [Bruno] Leoni, F. A. Hayek, and Milton Friedman each gave a series of lectures at the Fifth Institute on Freedom and Competitive Enterprise at what is now Claremont McKenna College in California. To say this meeting was consequential would be a gross understatement. Hayek’s lecturers were incorporated into The Constitution of Liberty. Friedman’s grew into Capitalism and Freedom, and Leoni’s were collected as Freedom and the Law.
Think about the kind of influence that that has had on world history!
When Aditya Bindal CMC '11 and I inquired into a video of any of those lectures and were told that they were lost. How tragic. Hopefully, someone out there has information on this...
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