File this under "Absurd"

The French government recently announced the creation of "Council for the Diffusion of Economic Culture" to communicate the benefits of capitalism, markets and entrepreneurship to French citizens.

Good idea.  There is nothing quite like a state run propaganda campaign to increase awareness of the importance of liberty and private property for the creation of wealth.

Article available here.

Thanks to Brian Cullen for the pointer.

Comments

[Chris]

I love the following from segment of the article:

"The new body will seek to promote financial education through popular culture including television, the print media and computer games."

In other words, the TV, media, and computer game industries will not produce based on consumer demands, but will be used as vehicles for a little social engineering.

Teaching Capitalism while using authoritarian methods...that's a good one!

[Speedmaster]

Hilarious! I posted about it too. ;-)

Chris
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[Rafe]

Maybe they should circulate the recent Mises daily piece on the forgotten French liberals - Say, Bastiat et al.