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CCCC hosts American Enterprise Day speakers
November 9, 2007
SANFORD – Entrepreneurship, capitalism, and economic growth will be the subjects of two lectures at the American Enterprise Symposium sponsored by the Central Carolina Community College business faculty and members of Phi Beta Lamba business student association.
Paul Cwik, Ph.D., adjunct scholar with the Foundation for Economic Education and an associate professor of economics at Mount Olive College, will discuss “Entrepreneurship: The Engine of Economic Growth.” The lecture takes place at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in the Lecture Hall of the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center on the Lee County Campus, 1105 Kelly Drive.
Derek Yonai, Ph.D., J.D., Lundy Chair of Business Philosophy and a professor of economics at Campbell University, will speak on entrepreneurship and capitalism at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Miriello Building Multipurpose Room at the college’s Harnett Campus, 1075 E. Cornelius Harnett Blvd., Lillington.
A reception will follow both lectures.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed Nov. 15 as American Enterprise Day to promote appreciation for the American free enterprise system that has provided the nation with one of the highest standards of living in the world.
Cwik earned his bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College, master’s, from Tulane University and doctorate from Auburn University. He has taught at several colleges and universities. He has presented academic papers to the Southern Economic Association, the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, the Prague Conference on Political Economy, and at the Austrian Scholars Conferences.
He has been published in academic journals, including The Quarterly Review of Austrian Economics, New Perspectives on Political Economy: A Bilingual Interdisciplinary Journal, and Business Ethics: A European Review. He is also a reviewer of Essays in Economic and Business History and The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He has also published in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. Additionally, his dissertation was cited by The Wall Street Journal in February 2006.
Dr. Yonai earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Irvine and graduated cum laude from Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, Calif. He earned both a master’s and a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.
Yonai conducts research in the fields of political economy, Austrian economics, and legal history. The Lundy Chair of Business Philosophy which he has held since 2003, was endowed in 1975 by Burrows T. Lundy, founder of Lundy Packing Company in Clinton. The purpose of the chair is to promote the principles of free enterprise, individual liberty, and minimal government.
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