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Capital Ideas Evolving, by financial historian Peter L. Bernstein, explains how a new generation of financial entrepreneurs is harnessing academic theory to transform 21st-century Wall Street. There is even a movie: The stunning new film the Call of the Entrepreneur breathes cinematic life into a highly abstract concept.
-National Review, July 9, 2007 by Nick Schulz
Generally speaking, however, I think that our own society could use a rekindling of the passion for freedom and fewer attempts to rationalize expansion of the state. I hope that "The Call of the Entrepreneur" is seen by enough people here and around the world to realize its subversive potential. I hope that it can stimulate more of us to yearn for liberty.
-Tech Central Station, July 20, 2007, by Arnold Kling
That's why the Acton Institute has just released its new movie, The Call of the Entrepreneur. The movie follows the stories of three entrepreneurs: a farmer, a merchant banker, and a fashion CEO. Interspersed among these stories is commentary from the Acton staff (including its president, Fr. Robert Sirico, and its director of research, Samuel Gregg), along with such notable writers as Michael Novak and George Gilder. The entrepreneurs show us real-life context, and the commentators help viewers understand the larger economic principles.
-First Things Blog, August 27, 2007 by Ryan T. Anderson
I must say [The Call of the Entrepreneur] is the best visual exposition of the moral basis of entrepreneurialism and free enterprise I have ever seen... By sketching the tales of three men who have taken risks - amazingly big risks in one case - and created not just money but wealth, it underlines the importance of free enterprise to what used to be called the commonwealth... A warning: you may choke up at some of the human tales it tells. I certainly did. This is no economics lecture, but the true, very human face of free enterprise.
-Iain Murray, blogging for The Corner on NRO