And welcome, and bill kelly, andrew w mellon, director of the research library. And its my pleasure to you to the library. We are fortunate indeed to have professor Kathy Davidson with us this evening. He is the author of a critically important, the new education, how to revolution as the university to prepare students for a world in flux. Kathys distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of new york, director of cunys initiatives program. Prior to joining the faculty she had held a chair professorship and was Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at duke university. She is the author or editor of more than20 books , cofounder and director of the worlds first academic social network, she serves on the board of the mozilla corporation. Developer as you probably know of the fox web browser and underwriter of the Global Community open source developers, she was appointed by president obama to the National Council on the humanities and was the 2016 recipie
Facebook. Com booktv. Now we want to introduce you to professor Lanny Ebenstein who is the author of this book, chicagonomics. When we talk about the chicago school, what are we talking about . Guest theres a long history of economics at the university of chicago. And the most significant economists at the university of chicago have been in the free market tradition. So what chicagonomics is about is the history of economics at the university of chicago starting out with some of the early economists such as frank knight and henry simon and then moving on to milton friedman, Friedrich Hayek who taught for a time at the university of chicago and others. Host why is it that they ended up at chicago . Guest thats a good question. I think that once there was a nucleus of classical, liberaloriented economists at the university of chicago, it attracted other economists of a similar perspective there, and so it really became the center of Classical Liberal economics during the 20th century. Ho
Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Im the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. The Heritage Foundation. I would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they wont interrupt proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a Government Policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. The United States is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. We have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. That can be in things like health care, direct income supporters of one kind or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of Government Policies. Those that are put in place offense fo
Newline this, not regulations between the syria reaction, afghanistan moab primary sponsor north korea, budget and especially because the justice at 60 goodbye to win more than the first 200 days. Host what is significant u about the budget . S. Go 55 million but is this broken out at the starvation starvation years for the department of defense. Mick mulvaney commit is not known for being a defense spending is a budget hawk. Gggi hes always said the deficits bigger National Security problem. Its going in the right direction by the time it getshe through, Chuck Schumer wants to set down. His space demands or shut down and his hardcore 10 wants to be seen to be fighting. Senator schumer has been a smart guy. And he knows it is not smart to filibuster neil gorsuch because they reduce the ability tofirm t nominate 51 votes as opposed to having a filibuster available and now its down to 51. Forest fires based to shut the government and that this time the government when republicans have be
Newline this, not regulations between the syria reaction, afghanistan moab primary sponsor north korea, budget and especially because the justice at 60 goodbye to win more than the first 200 days. Host what is significant u about the budget . S. Go 55 million but is this broken out at the starvation starvation years for the department of defense. Mick mulvaney commit is not known for being a defense spending is a budget hawk. Gggi hes always said the deficits bigger National Security problem. Its going in the right direction by the time it getshe through, Chuck Schumer wants to set down. His space demands or shut down and his hardcore 10 wants to be seen to be fighting. Senator schumer has been a smart guy. And he knows it is not smart to filibuster neil gorsuch because they reduce the ability tofirm t nominate 51 votes as opposed to having a filibuster available and now its down to 51. Forest fires based to shut the government and that this time the government when republicans have be