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Why is the number of Americans who value free enterprise, and who understand its virtues and benefits declining--especially among students and younger citizens? Asked in an April Rasmussen poll to choose the better system between capitalism and socialism, 13 percent of respondents over 40 years of age chose socialism. For those under 30, this percentage rose to 33 percent.

In its inaugural 2009 Free Enterprise Lecture Series, AEI hopes to foster a discussion of the merits of free enterprise through a series of provocative and engaging seminars in a relaxed setting with some of AEI's most renowned scholars. The lecture series is open to AEI interns and research assistants, as well as interns and research assistants from peer institutions in Washington and students from local universities. Lectures will be held on the following Tuesdays and Thursdays, kicking-off next Thursday, July 16th, with AEI's D.C. Searle Senior Fellow, Christopher DeMuth, speaking on "Competition as an Ethical and Political Value."

All lectures will be held in AEI's Wohlstetter Conference Center on the 12th floor at 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036. Lectures will begin promptly at 5:00 p.m. Light dinner and refreshments will be served. If you are interested in attending any of the lectures, please respond by email to Mary Campbell (mary.campbell@aei.org) or Bethany Richeson (bethany.richeson@aei.org). For questions by phone please call 202.862.7166.

Thursday, July 16
Christopher DeMuth, D.C. Searle Senior Fellow
Competition as an Ethical and Political Value

Tuesday, July 21
Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow and Michael Barone, Resident Fellow
American Exceptionalism

Thursday, July 23
John Bolton, Senior Fellow
Sovereignty and the Free Enterprise

Tuesday, July 28
AEI Intern Dinner
Arthur Brooks, President
(This event is for AEI interns and staff by special invitation only)

Thursday, July 30
Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar
Their Passions Forge Their Fetters

Tuesday, August 4
Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy
Morality and Free Markets

Thursday, August 6
Walter Berns, Resident Scholar
Free Markets and the Constitution