The Charles Koch Foundation will sponsor the upcoming “Capitalism, Crony Capitalism, and the Common Good” conference at Lindenwood University.

As keynote speakers, Ralph Nader and Grover Norquist will address the challenges and ethics involved in modern business.

Rachel Douchant, director of the university’s Liberty and Ethics Center, said the conference will discuss “the idea of business as a lofty vocation and whether crony capitalism ought to be of greater concern within business ethics debates.”

Douchant said that to support the conference, the Charles Koch Foundation donated $10,000 and a $12,000 grant was received from the Earhart Foundation.

The conference will be held March 19-21, 2015, on the campus of Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.

Nader and Norquist will discuss areas of principle agreement on the topics of right and left coalitions and nonpartisanship.

The keynote address will be themed around Nader’s book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.

“Primary to our discussions will be the idea of business as a lofty vocation and whether crony capitalism ought to be of greater concern within business ethics debates than it currently is,” Douchant said. “Nader and Norquist will be an eloquent addition to our conference and may disrupt assumptions about the Hammond Institute’s focus on free-markets — we strongly distinguish between government leaving markets to operate naturally and government trying to aid or speed up market processes.”

In his book Unstoppable, Nader urges Congress to pass laws that end corporate welfare or what Nader sometimes calls corporate socialism. The right uses the term crony capitalism.