Join us for the next installment of Western Carolina University’s Free Enterprise Speaker Series sponsored by the Center for Free Enterprise. Two guest speakers, Amity Shlaes and Roy Cordato will look at the fairness of federal tax reform from 5:00- 6:15 p.m. Monday, April 16, in Forsyth room 101. Shlaes, a frequent contributor to both Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, is board chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” and a former Wall Street Journal editorial board member.
Cordato is a former senior economist at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation in Washington, D.C., and a contributor to Washington Times. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the economics department of N.C State University.
With three events each semester, WCU’s Free Enterprise Speaker Series “offers a forum for the campus and community to explore all points of view on important issues of the day, hear from renowned experts from a variety of fields and understand multiple perspectives through civil, informed discourse,” said Edward Lopez, WCU professor of economics and director of the university’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise, which sponsors the series.
The Center for the Study of Free Enterprise (CSFE) seeks to provide economics research and thought leadership focused on issues in economic development in our region, North Carolina and beyond. This practice is carried out by conducting a scholarly based inquiry, policy analysis, educational activities, and community outreach. As a cross-disciplinary unit, we involve students and faculty from every college and discipline on campus and support their work that improves understanding of economic development in our world.