{"id":7988,"date":"2012-07-01T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:26:15","slug":"earning-happiness-the-moral-promise-of-free-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/earning-happiness-the-moral-promise-of-free-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Earning Happiness &#8212; The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7989\" title=\"Prager_University_01_250px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Prager_University_01_250px.gif\" alt=\"Prager University\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" hspace=\"4\" \/> The words &#8220;happiness&#8221; and &#8220;free enterprise&#8221; don&#8217;t usually appear in the same sentence. Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, explains that the two are intimately and profoundly connected. The free enterprise system not only creates real wealth, it also provides individuals with the best chance to achieve personal satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks\u2019 lecture, titled \u201cEarning Happiness: The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise,\u201d makes a strong case that the free market economic system is most conducive to human welfare. Brooks explains<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFree enterprise matters not just because of its unparalleled material benefits but because of its unparalleled moral benefits.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C21til72n08?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words &#8220;happiness&#8221; and &#8220;free enterprise&#8221; don&#8217;t usually appear in the same sentence. Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, explains that the two are intimately and profoundly connected. The free enterprise system not only creates real wealth, it also provides individuals with the best chance to achieve personal satisfaction. Brooks\u2019 lecture, titled \u201cEarning &#8230; <a title=\"Earning Happiness &#8212; The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/earning-happiness-the-moral-promise-of-free-enterprise\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Earning Happiness &#8212; The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,87,79,15,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism","category-economics","category-freedom","category-moral-issues","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}