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    Common Sense Economics

    This summer students have the chance to take an important new course called Common Sense Economics which covers the basics of how the free market works and how to develop personal financial responsibility.

    Learn More about Commons Sense Economics

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    Governor Gary Johnson

    2012 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Governor Gary Johnson gave a well attended public lecture at the U of I on April 3. Johnson's message of limited government and individual liberty resonated well with the hundreds of students in attendance.

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    America's Economic Freedom Declines

    Academy President Matthew Brown explains how American economic freedom has significantly declined in recent years and the dangers less freedom poses for American prosperity and well-being.

    Read About Decline in American Economic Freedom PDF file

  • Property Rights Defender Speaks at University

    Constitutional lawyer Scott Bullock, of the Institute for Justice, spoke to students at the University of Illinois on September 19 describing his work fighting illegitimate government seizures of private property and limitations on business activity.

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  • An Education in Liberty

    A unique program, supported by the Academy on Capitalism, allows students to customize their courses to earn a Master's degree in Liberty Studies.

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About the Academy

Our Founding Fathers subscribed to and advocated an enlightened yet limited government, one that vigorously promotes political freedom and economic opportunity, one that anticipates and nurtures the unlimited potential and private energies of the individual.

The Academy is a not-for-profit corporation that supports scholarly research and teaching about the authors and ideas of free markets, entrepreneurship, individual rights, individual responsibility, limited government and peace. The ACLG Foundation is overseen by a board of directors providing grants for programs, research and activities at the University of Illinois.

Quote:Nothing had a greater impact on my intellectual development than the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation. Class of 2011 Illinois Graduate

Disclaimer:

The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation is not a unit of the University of Illinois, rather is a supporting organization to the University of Illinois Foundation providing philanthropic investment in programs which comport with the Academy Mission and expressed donor intent and the teaching, research, and service missions of the University.