Economics

Roger Kimball Editor, The New Criterion This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. This first CCA of the 2017-2018 academic year will explore that revolution’s leaders, its animating ideology, and the 70-year history of the tyrannical regime to which it gave birth. Watch more from this CCA seminar at

Daniel J. Mahoney Author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology Assumption College This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. This first CCA of the 2017-2018 academic year will explore that revolution’s leaders, its animating ideology, and the 70-year history of the tyrannical regime to which it gave birth. Watch more from this CCA seminar at

Chair: Timothy W. Caspar, Hillsdale College “The Rise of Globalization” Clyde Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute "In Defense of Globalization” Daniel Griswold, George Mason University “The Downside of Globalization” Jeff Ferry, Coalition for a Prosperous America The Free Market Forum seeks to encourage the study of free enterprise by bringing scholars together for dynamic exchanges of ideas on topics related to free market economics. Hillsdale College, in conjunction with the Acton Institute and the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, launched its Center for the Study of Monetary Systems and Free Enterprise in 2006. As part of its educational mission, the Center sponsors the Free Market Forum to promote understanding and appreciation of free market systems. See more from Hillsdale College's 2017 Free Market Forum at

Maureen K. Ohlhausen Acting Chairman, Federal Trade Commission The Free Market Forum seeks to encourage the study of free enterprise by bringing scholars together for dynamic exchanges of ideas on topics related to free market economics. Hillsdale College, in conjunction with the Acton Institute and the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, launched its Center for the Study of Monetary Systems and Free Enterprise in 2006. As part of its educational mission, the Center sponsors the Free Market Forum to promote understanding and appreciation of free market systems. See more from Hillsdale College's 2017 Free Market Forum at

Mary Anastasia O’Grady, The Wall Street Journal The Free Market Forum seeks to encourage the study of free enterprise by bringing scholars together for dynamic exchanges of ideas on topics related to free market economics. Hillsdale College, in conjunction with the Acton Institute and the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, launched its Center for the Study of Monetary Systems and Free Enterprise in 2006. As part of its educational mission, the Center sponsors the Free Market Forum to promote understanding and appreciation of free market systems. See more from Hillsdale College's 2017 Free Market Forum at

"The Current Tax Debate in Historical Perspective" Larry Schweikart Author, A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement Watch Hillsdale College's CCA Seminar on Markets and Policy at Learn more about Hillsdale College at