Northwood University Freedom Seminar Series: “Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich”

Tue, 02 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

4000 Whiting Drive, Midland, MI, United States, Michigan 48640 | Midland

Northwood University
Publisher/HostNorthwood University
Northwood University Freedom Seminar Series: \u201cLeave Me Alone and I\u2019ll Make You Rich\u201d
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“Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich” will be presented by Art Carden, a Margaret Gage Bush Distinguished Professor of Business and Medical Properties Trust Fellow at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Art Carden will explore the themes he and Co-author Deirdre McCloskey wrote about in their book, “Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World,” which is the fall Omniquest selection to be read by the entire Northwood University community. He explains how the rise of the West, and later the rest of the world, comes from embracing the idea of the dignity and freedom of the individual. This change in thinking led to increasing economic liberty and enterprise that caused a surge in innovation after 1800. These changes not only led to improvements in material living standards, but to broader human flourishing.
We invite the community to join us! The event begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Griswold Lecture Hall on Northwood University’s campus with a reception to follow.
LEARN MORE and REGISTER at https://www.northwood.edu/freedom-seminar/

More About Art Carden:
Art Carden is Margaret Gage Bush Distinguished Professor of Economics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal and a Fellow with numerous research, education, and outreach institutions. He is also the author of Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World (with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, University of Chicago Press, 2020), Strangers With Candy: Observations From the Ordinary Business of Life (Libertarian Christian Institute, 2023), and Mere Economics: Lessons For and From the Ordinary Business of Life (with Caleb S. Fuller, B&H Academic).
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4000 Whiting Drive, Midland, MI, United States, Michigan 48640

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