States in this period of 1970s. And were going to use three handles as were going to use vehicles, were going to use film and were going to use the crises of the seventies to weave this all together and somehow come up with some sort of an understanding about changes in identity during this tumultuous decade. Before i began, my cohost, dr. Todd altman in indiana and rutgers, ph. D. , and an american professor. He and ended up writing an article. In 2014 in the journal popular culture, entitled stealing freedom, which dealt with film and auto theft. And i think the class read that as part of your assignment it and todd has done many other different kinds of studies during the past several years here at the university of dayton. And my colleague John Heitmann of course, is a very well known historian of automobile and others. He wrote a very famous book that won many awards. Im plugging it for him here. The automobile an American Life. Very good read. Wonderful book john has the most dis
Im mackenzie. Welcome again to the university of chicago where a distinguished group of guests met together to watch a film and to discuss a film by Milton Friedman in series free to choose. In it, he examines the consumer movement, the whole development of high powered government agencies. In recent recent decades in this country, which have set out to protect the interest of the consumer. Now, does this consumerism really work. Or are there better ways of protecting the interest of the consumer . Thats the question, Milton Friedman asks in this film. The 1960s corvair condemned ralph nader as unsafe at any speed speed. Since naders attack, its being increasingly that we need government in the marketplace today. There are agencies all over washington where bureaucrats decide whats good for us. Agencies to control the prices we pay, the quality goods we can buy, the choice of products available. Its costing us more than 5 billion a year. Since the attack. The corvair. Government has be
Im mackenzie. Welcome again to the university of chicago where a distinguished group of guests met together to watch a film and to discuss a film by Milton Friedman in series free to choose. In it, he examines the consumer movement, the whole development of high powered government agencies. In recent recent decades in this country, which have set out to protect the interest of the consumer. Now, does this consumerism really work. Or are there better ways of protecting the interest of the consumer . Thats the question, Milton Friedman asks in this film. The 1960s corvair condemned ralph nader as unsafe at any speed speed. Since naders attack, its being increasingly that we need government in the marketplace today. There are agencies all over washington where bureaucrats decide whats good for us. Agencies to control the prices we pay, the quality goods we can buy, the choice of products available. Its costing us more than 5 billion a year. Since the attack. The corvair. Government has be
Im mackenzie. Welcome again to the university of chicago where a distinguished group of guests met together to watch a film and to discuss a film by Milton Friedman in series free to choose. In it, he examines the consumer movement, the whole development of high powered government agencies. In recent recent decades in this country, which have set out to protect the interest of the consumer. Now, does this consumerism really work. Or are there better ways of protecting the interest of the consumer . Thats the question, Milton Friedman asks in this film. The 1960s corvair condemned ralph nader as unsafe at any speed speed. Since naders attack, its being increasingly that we need government in the marketplace today. There are agencies all over washington where bureaucrats decide whats good for us. Agencies to control the prices we pay, the quality goods we can buy, the choice of products available. Its costing us more than 5 billion a year. Since the attack. The corvair. Government has be
Im mackenzie. Welcome again to the university of chicago where a distinguished group of guests met together to watch a film and to discuss a film by Milton Friedman in series free to choose. In it, he examines the consumer movement, the whole development of high powered government agencies. In recent recent decades in this country, which have set out to protect the interest of the consumer. Now, does this consumerism really work. Or are there better ways of protecting the interest of the consumer . Thats the question, Milton Friedman asks in this film. The 1960s corvair condemned ralph nader as unsafe at any speed speed. Since naders attack, its being increasingly that we need government in the marketplace today. There are agencies all over washington where bureaucrats decide whats good for us. Agencies to control the prices we pay, the quality goods we can buy, the choice of products available. Its costing us more than 5 billion a year. Since the attack. The corvair. Government has be