by Rick Lowe

The following video from the Foundation of Economic Education (FEE), featuring a lecture by Sarah Skwire is a fabulous presentation for this time of year.

Was Scrooge really evil? Well watch the video and find out.

Visit FEE's web site here… Visit Ms. Skwire's blog here…

Here's the summary of the video from FEE's site:

"Characters like the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and novels like the anti-industrial Hard Times have made the works of Charles Dickens something of a punching bag for friends of the free market, and this is understandable. But by allowing our opponents to focus on these parts of Dickens's work, we neglect his important agreement with free market principles on such issues as the power of innovation, the value of work, and the importance of personal financial responsibility, and we lose an important and persuasive ally in the process. To cherry-pick, on either side of the battle over markets, just the most ideologically appealing part of a writer's work is to do the work and the writer a great injustice, and this lecture will seek to offer a more balanced, more complex, and more economically sophisticated Dickens."