Which is one of our signature gatherings of the year. Were here tonight to honor joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its namesake friedrich von hayek the brilliant economist who shared a nobel prize with gunner murdal in 1974 for hayek. Economic freedom was the cornerstone of a Flourishing Society
He sends his regrets as he was very much. Looking forward to the event, which is one of our signature gatherings of the year. Were here tonight to honor joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its namesake friedrich von hayek the brilliant economist who shared a nobel prize with gunner murdal in 1974
Joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its namesake friedrich von hayek the brilliant economist who shared a nobel prize with gunner murdal in 1974 for hayek. Economic freedom was the cornerstone of a Flourishing Society hayek explained how free markets coordinated the actions of people scattered thr
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And all the way into the 15th century a. D. It is a very significant period to the development of western art. It affects substantially the art production of the periods of western medieval art, for example, the carolingian, the romanesque, gothic and also the early renaissance periods. Unfortunately, these very important thousand years of Artistic Development is almost entirely omitted from the telelesson or from the telecourse art of the western world. For this reason, i have brought you here to the holy trinity church. We are very fortunate here in San Francisco to have such a lovely monument which reflects the byzantine art tradition. The decorative program which you will see, the lovely images that you will see in this church, belonged to the middle byzantine phase. I need to clarify, the byzantine period is divided into three periods the early, middle and the later phase. And its the middle phase lasting from about the 10th century all the way up and into the 12th century a. D. ,