Dr. Edward Lopez, professor of economics and BB&T distinguished professor of capitalism at Western Carolina University, offers the context for the late Milton Friedman’s famous comment about the need for a crisis to enact real public policy reform. Lopez offered these comments during a July 31, 2015, Friedman Legacy of Freedom Lecture for the John Locke Foundation and the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
North Carolina: Early to the revolution
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.