Reading Groups
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The Center for Free Enterprise Reading Group program is offered each semester and provides undergraduate students opportunities for sharing their ideas with peers, promoting learning and intellectual development beyond the classroom. The groups meet three times throughout the semester for book discussion, followed by dinner for added fellowship and conversation. We encourage students in all majors and at all undergraduate grade levels to apply.
Students who meet participation requirements are awarded $200 scholarships.
Students who participate in the CFE Reading Group program often name the experience among their favorite extracurricular activities, citing benefits such as the unique opportunity for open and civil discussion, networking and peer interaction. We often invite the authors to participate in our Menard Family Lecture Series, giving students unique opportunities to meet and discuss the books with the authors.
Don’t miss your chance to join.
Reading Group applications open before every semester. Email us today to get on the list and be the first to know when the next application period begins.
Books we’ve read in the past include: |
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| "The Anxious Generation," Jonathan Haidt |
| "The Missing Piece," Jane Grote Abell |
| "The Capitalist Manifesto," Johan Norberg |
| "Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know," Ronald Bailey, Marian Tupy |
| "Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security," (Part I, through page 166), Roman V. Yampolskiy |
| "Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control," Stuart Russell |
| "It’s Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks," Howard Behar |
| "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates," Peter Leeson |
| "The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America," Burton Folsom, Forrest McDonald |
| "Phishing for Phools," George Akerlof, Robert Shiller |
| "The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How to Fix it," Marty Makary, MD |
| "How Innovation Works and Why it Flourishes in Freedom," Matt Ridley |
| "Burn the Business Plan," Carl Schramm |
| "The Bottom Billion," Paul Collier |
| "Poor Economics," Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo |
| "Open Borders," Bryan Caplan, Zach Weinersmith |
| "Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society," James Otteson |
| "Who Owns the Ice House?," Clifton Taulbert |
| "Man’s Search for Meaning," Victor Frankl |
| "The Evolution of Everything," Matt Ridley |
| "Average is Over," Tyler Cowen |
| "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future," Martin Ford |
| "Who Gets What and Why," Alvin E. Roth |
| "What Money Can’t Buy," Michael Sandel |
| "Radical Markets," Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl |
| "The Complacent Class," Tyler Cowen |
| "The Fatal Conceit," F.A. Hayek |