Art Carden: Government Failure during the Pandemic COVID-19 Video Series

In lieu of in-person events during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise released a series of videos describing various issues related to markets and government intervention during the pandemic. 

This video, the second in the series, features Dr. Art Carden discussing government failure during the pandemic. Dr. Carden explores the many ways in which the government, rather than helping us fight the pandemic, is making it worse and proposes hope we can fix it. 

You can read Dr. Carden's op-ed about this topic here: American Institute for Economic Research, May this Crisis Shock Us Into Embracing Freedom. 

Art Carden is a professor of economics at Samford University's Brock School of Business. He is also a senior fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research and the Fraser Institute; a research fellow with the Independent Institute; a senior fellow with the Beacon Center of Tennessee; a senior research fellow with the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics; and co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal. His research on mass-market retailers, economic history, and the history of economic ideas has appeared in journals like the Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, Public Choice, and Contemporary Economic Policy. He is a contributor to Forbes.com, and his commentaries and other articles have appeared in USA Today, Productive!, Black Belt, and many other outlets. He earned a B.S. and M.A. from the University of Alabama and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis. Before joining the faculty at Samford. Carden taught economics at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.