What Is Financial Literacy and Why Is It Important? (Video)

– September 23, 2022 Reading Time: < 1 minute

On this episode of Liberty Curious, Robert Wright, historian and Senior Research Faculty at AIER, joins Kate Wand to discuss his new book: Fearless: Wilma Soss and America’s Forgotten Investor Movement.

Robert shares details of Wilma Soss’s remarkable story as a self-made woman, journalist, PR pioneer, and activist who devoted her life to reforming corporate America. In the post-World War Two era, with the Great Depression in the poast, Soss changed from a stock market skeptic to a tireless shareholder advocate, working from within to change corporations to serve shareholders better. A staunch supporter of free markets and economic freedom, Wilma believed that the private sector was the best way to achieve personal wealth, well-being, liberty, and the ultimate defense against collectivism.

See the full interview here.

Robert E. Wright is the (co)author or (co)editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections, including AIER’s The Best of Thomas Paine (2021) and Financial Exclusion (2019). He has also (co)authored numerous articles for important journals, including the American Economic Review, Business History Review, Independent Review, Journal of Private Enterprise, Review of Finance, and Southern Economic Review. Robert has taught business, economics, and policy courses at Augustana University, NYU’s Stern School of Business, Temple University, the University of Virginia, and elsewhere since taking his Ph.D. in History from SUNY Buffalo in 1997. Robert E. Wright was formerly a Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research.