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Venturing Out is a brand new, student-run podcast dedicated to serving those with an entrepreneurial spirit. By creating a community of entrepreneurs, Venturing Out strives to shine a bright light on inspiring stories of entrepreneurship. Each guest will share experiences, provide encouragement and offer resources to help students who aspire to start their own businesses and dare to take that first step on the path to entrepreneurship.
TOP LEFT - Dillon Fontaine, Founder | Charlie Doebbler, Co-Founder | Grace Smith, Director of Media | Paige McClelland, Director of Communications
BOTTOM LEFT - Trey Riedle, Director of Content | Erica Ginaven, Director of Speaker Relations | Chris Guerra, Director of Speaker Outreach
Baugh Center Reading Group
A Scholarly Discussion Group
Click here to apply for Fall 2022
The John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise supports the intellectual development of students interested in the intersections of entrepreneurship, economics and public policy. The goal is to be a national leader in this area through research, teaching and informing public policy. The Center is honored to sponsor the Baugh Center Reading Group.
Formerly known as the McLane Scholars Program, the Baugh Center Reading Group seeks a multi-disciplinary group representing majors from across Baylor's undergraduate student population. The goal of the Baugh Center Reading Group is to give students an opportunity to meet on a weekly basis for scholarly discussion with diverse views contained within a reading group setting.
The Baugh Center Reading Group is a one semester, non-credit reading group where participants will read and discuss selections from classic works in political economy and from contemporary scholars that address the relationships between and among entrepreneurship, economic freedom and social progress.
Reading material will be provided to students. Student participants who regularly attend the meetings and intentionally engage in discussion will receive a $1,000 award/stipend at the end of the semester.
All questions and inquiries should be submitted to the Center via Email.
The deadline to submit an application for the Fall 2022 Baugh Center Reading Group is Wednesday, August 24, 2022.
Fall 2022 Theme: The Role of Government in a Free Society
Fall 2022 Theme Description: Participants will explore through a variety of readings different perspectives of what the role of government in a free society is and should be. Readings will include writings from Political figures like Thomas Jefferson to philosophers like Karl Marx, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes to Nobel Prize winners like James Buchanan, Fredrick Hayek, and Milton Friedman, to modern thinkers and writers like Tyler Cowen and Cass Sunstein.
Fall 2022 Reading Material (Books that will be provided):
- David Boaz, ed. The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Readings from Lao-zu to Milton Friedman. New York: Free Press, 1997.
- Milton Friedman. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1962.
- Friedrich Hayek. The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1944.
- Michael Munger. The Thing Itself. Mungerella Publishing, 2015.
- Richard Stroup. Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment. 2nd ed., Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2016.
Fall 2022 Meetings: Fridays from 11am-12pm on the Foster Campus - September 9, 16, 23, 30. October 7, 21, 28. November 4, 18. December 2.
Fall 2022 Theme: The Role of Government in a Free Society
Spring 2022 Theme: Capitalism, Socialism, and Human Flourishing
Fall 2021 Theme: Freedom and Human Flourishing: Poverty, Prosperity and Happiness around the World
Spring 2021 Theme: Economics, Evolution, and the Environment
Fall 2020 Theme: Exploring Inequality
Spring 2020 Theme: Paternalism
Fall 2019 Theme: The Past, Present, and Future of Work
Spring 2019 Theme: Economics and Knowledge
Fall 2018 Theme: The Role of Government in a Free Society
Spring 2018 Theme: Freedom and Human Flourishing: Poverty, Prosperity & Quality of Life around the World
Fall 2017 Theme: Economics and Social Issues: Markets and the Marginalized
Spring 2017 Theme: Cities, Local Government, and Local Governance
Fall 2016 Theme: Markets and Morality
Spring 2016 Theme: Markets and Economic Development: Does Capitalism Help the Poor?
Fall 2015 Theme: Classic and Contemporary Controversies in Political Economy
Spring 2015 Theme: Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship
