WCU’s Edward Lopez discusses economic freedom and N.C. COVID-19 recovery

February 3, 2021

Dr. Edward Lopez, economics professor and director of the Center for the Study of Free Enterprise at Western Carolina University, discusses a new report on North Carolina’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more here: “North Carolina’s Prospects for COVID-19 Economic Recovery: Top-down and Bottom-up Assessments.”

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