The BB&T Center for the Advancement of American Capitalism (Center) will introduce students to the fundamentals of a capitalist market economy including:

• How it provides for a unique set of incentives for economic prosperity
• How it automatically ensures the maximum level of individual autonomy and achievement
• How it is an integral and necessary component for political freedom

The Center will also publicize and advance this mission by:

• Conducting at least one upper level course each semester that focuses on the principles set forth in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and other writers who have championed and critiqued the workings of a capitalist market economy.
• Advancing student and general public awareness about the role and importance of the capitalist market economy through a series of public lectures, workshops and symposia.
• Researching public policy to provide useful and necessary information on how legislative action either supports or undermines the workings of the capitalist market economy.

Encouraging the formation of new entrepreneurial business particularly those which are being generated by faculty, staff and students at Marshall University

 

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