For over 30 years, the Economic Club of Indiana has been central Indiana's most important forum for discussion of important public issues by leading national luminaries. As the new season approaches, the 2008-2009 program year maintains the same high level of quality in speakers. To take advantage of this schedule, the best approach is full membership in the club. For a modest price, membership provides several advantages compared to patrons who merely buy admission at the door.

One of the all-time favorite speakers has been economist Milton Friedman, a three-time visitor. Friedman was the club’s second speaker during the 1974 inaugural year and in 1985 returned to join fellow Nobel laureates George Stigler and James Buchanan in a panel discussion that may never be duplicated for sheer distinction. Friedman returned to Indianapolis a third time in 1992.

It is noteworthy that several presentations to the Economic Club have made it into the pages of “Vital Speeches,” which twice monthly reproduces ten or so major speeches made around the globe.