Morals & Markets Presents: Paternalism, Infantilism, and the Welfare State

Join Atlas Society Senior Scholar Richard Salsman, Ph.D., Tuesday, May 28 @ 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET for our quarterly Morals & Markets webinar. This month, Dr. Salsman covers paternalism, infantalism, and the welfare state:

"A free society depends not only rational philosophy, capitalist economics, and rights-respecting politics but a psychology of mental health rooted in self-esteem and its corollaries (self-confidence, self-responsibility, self-reliance). Many people are anxious, angry, and even phobic about living in a free, vibrant, dynamic culture. Preferring security to liberty, they lose both. The result – the welfare state – is as much demanded as it is supplied by pandering politicians. Paternalism is a type of collectivism which conceives the nation as a family, politicians as parents, and citizens as children; tragically, however, this "family" suffers much domestic abuse." -- Richard Salsman

For additional information and in preparation for the event, please review the ABSTRACT which includes links to recommended reading.

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