Los Angeles Times Correspondent Barbara Demick Will Speak At Free Enterprise Forum

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WACO, Texas (Feb. 7, 2018) —Barbara Demick, New York bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, will speak at the Free Enterprise Forum at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, in Room 250 of Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business, 1621 S. Third St. Demick will talk about her book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives of North Koreans.
“By telling the stories of real North Koreans, she depicts in vivid detail how the socialist economic and political system in North Korea has impacted the lives and well-being of its people. The topic of her talk is particularly timely given that North Korea is increasingly an international geo-political concern and the growing interest in socialism among millennials in America,” said Daniel L. Bennett, Ph.D., research professor in the department of entrepreneurship.

Demick grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Yale College. She was a Bagehot fellow in business journalism at Columbia University and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University. Demick has previously served overseas in the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia. In addition to her book on North Korea, she also is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood and is writing a book on China. She has won Britain’s Samuel Johnson Award for best nonfiction, the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, as well as the Osborn Elliot Prize for Journalism from the Asia Society and the Overseas Press Club, the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award and Stanford University’s Shorenstein Award for best Asia reporting. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise seeks to aid in the preservation of the competitive free enterprise system, including the vital small business sector of the economy. Its goal is to be a national leader in this area through research, teaching and informing public policy.

“The objective of the Forum is to provide the Baylor and Waco communities the opportunity to interact with subject matter experts about thought-provoking topics that matter for the well-being of society,” Bennett said.
The Free Enterprise Forum speaker series features academically renowned guests speaking on a range of topics varying from free enterprise and regulation to innovation and poverty. Pre-registration is recommended, but walks-in will be welcome. To register for this event, visit the Free Enterprise Forum website.

The next scheduled Free Enterprise Forum is Thursday, March 22, featuring P.J. Hill, Ph.D., Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wheaton College and senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. Hill’s lecture is titled "Saving the Environment Through Prices and Property Rights.”

For more information about the Free Enterprise Forum, visit the Baylor Business website.

by Joy Moton, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805
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