In this Stories of Impact video, economist and former president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI,) Dr. Arthur C. Brooks, discusses AEI's program on human flourishing. The aim is to understand the cultural underpinnings of free enterprise and entrepreneurship in the United States and beyond. In the past 50 years, the world's starvation rate has declined by 80% and billions have risen from poverty as a result of the free enterprise system. It’s a fact that came as a revelation to Arthur Brooks and changed the course of his career. Brooks was a classically trained french horn player who returned to the classroom and began to examine our free enterprise economy and the distribution of wealth.