• "Every individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his original intention. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectively than when he really intends to promote it."
    Adam Smith (1776)
  • We can loan you enough money to get you completely out of debt.
    Sign on Bank
  • If you had your life to live over again - you'd need more money.
    Construction Digest
  • (The Income Tax) has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
    Will Rogers
  • Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
    Frederic Bastiat
  • Monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist of wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.
    Adam Smith
  • The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
    John Maynard Keynes
  • It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.
    John F. Kennedy
  • The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Capitalism, the system of private property and free markets, is not only a system of freedom and of natural justice - which tends in spite of exceptions to distribute rewards in accordance with production - but it is a great co-operative and creative system that has produced for our generation an affluence that our ancestors did not dare dream of.
    Henry Hazlitt

Location
Gus A. Stavros Center
250 S. Woodward Ave
Tallahassee, FL 32306

Contact
(850) 644-4772
(850) 644-9866 (Fax)

Welcome to the home page of the Gus A. Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education at Florida State University.

The Center is a member of the Council for Economic Education, and as a Council member, assumes responsibility for furthering economic education both in schools and among community groups in its service area.

Excellence in Economic Education (EEE)

Designed to promote excellence in the teaching of economics, the EEE program seeks to bring economic excitement alive for both students and teachers.

Study of Political Economy and Free Enterprise (SPEFE)

The SPEFE program focuses on research that enhances the understanding of the institutions and policies supportive of free enterprise.

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