Free Market U.


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Focus. Free market capitalism
Industry. Education
Key. Academic proponents of free-market capitalism gain a foothold on the Gulf Coast.

At Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, every student who majors in economics and finance gets a copy of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged.

This isn't exactly the kind of required reading you might find at most colleges and universities. Although it was published in 1957, the book is relevant today because of its depiction of the individual entrepreneur's morally just struggle for profit against the government and a despondent society.

 

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