Rachel Ferguson on Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

Liberty and Leadership

Join Roger in this week's Liberty + Leadership Podcast as he speaks with esteemed scholar and author, Dr. Rachel Ferguson. Roger and Rachel discuss her book "Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America," the fundamentals of classical liberalism, and the power of social capital. They also explore the sad reality of how government can create problems that government can't fix.
At Concordia University Chicago, Dr. Rachel Ferguson is the director of the Free Enterprise Center, assistant dean of the College of Business, and professor of Business Ethics. She is also an affiliate scholar with the Acton Institute and was a visiting fellow at the Eudaimonia Institute. Rachel’s writing has been featured in "Discourse Magazine," "Law and Liberty," "EconLib," the Acton Power Blog, and "The Journal of Markets and Morality." In her hometown of St. Louis, Rachel is actively involved in community building and empowering marginalized entrepreneurs through LOVEtheLOU and Gateway 2 Flourishing. She is a graduate of Lindenwood University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy with a focus on political and economic philosophy from Saint Louis University.
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