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Steamboat Institute, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual, is proud to present a compelling debate on the following resolution: Be it resolved, capitalism is better than socialism for human flourishing. Arguing the affirmative is Yaron Brook, Chairman of the Board of the Ayn Rand Institute; Host of The Yaron Brook Show; Author of In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. Arguing the negative is Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin; President of the Nation magazine; Author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. Moderator is Hadley Heath Manning, Tony Blankley Senior Fellow, Steamboat Institute.