March Breakfast Meeting

Speaker: Martha Njolomole

Topic: Why growing welfare spending will bankrupt Minnesota

Martha Njolomole is an economist at the Center of the American Experiment, where she analyzes issues such as unionization, state economic growth, and taxpayer-funded projects. Since joining the Center, she has become a key voice on Minnesota economic policy.

Born and raised in Malawi, a developing African country with a welfare-state society, she experienced chronic shortages of basic goods and services—most provided by the government—in a society with limited protections for individual and economic liberty. These experiences shaped her interest in expanding economic opportunity and improving access to essential resources.

She earned a Master of Arts in Economics from Troy University, where she studied how free markets promote efficiency. Influenced by Friedrich Hayek, she concluded that free markets—not government—drive social and economic progress, a view reinforced by her own experience with their absence.

Ms. Njolomole argues that a society’s advancement depends on how well it allocates resources, and that markets, guided by price signals, are the most effective means of doing so. Because no central authority possesses complete knowledge, she maintains that markets require liberty to function successfully.

Sources: Center of the American Experiment staff introduction at https://www.americanexperiment.org/magazine/article/the-center-adds-economist, and
“Let Me Introduce Myself,” Ms. Njolomole’s self-introduction at https://www.americanexperiment.org/let-me-introduce-myself/.

Registration deadline: Wednesday, March 4 at 9:00 p.m.