Center for Free Enterprise
Our vision is for West Virginia students, citizens, policymakers, and the business community to understand the roles that the principles and institutions of a free society play in creating widely shared prosperity.
INCREASING PROSPERITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Our mission is to advance teaching, research, and outreach on the free enterprise system and how it relates to increased prosperity and quality of life in West Virginia and the world.
Graduate Student Opportunities
Reading Groups:
The Center for Free Enterprise hosts a reading group focused on the seminal thinkers that have advanced free enterprise and encouraged human flourishing. Our goal in these reading groups is for CFE affiliated graduate students to grow in their understanding of the principles that undergird a free society and lead to economic growth and prosperity. To this end we have read the works of F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, among others.
Graduate Student Travel Funding:
CFE affiliated graduate students and those working on papers that relate to the Center’s mission can receive funding at the discretion of the director to present at academic conferences. Our goal is to empower the next generation of economists who are interested in free enterprise.