Lives that is already done accounted for. Go to booktv. Org for the complete schedule the market went up right after the election within hours of the election first draft and then went right back up and another of analysts in particular pointed out that this is the time to invest in the biopharmaceutical industry and i think they need to that recommendation based on what andy is talking about. The assault on drug pricing that has been taking place. The default could have had a continuing downside impact on the industry. Now that hes not in the white house is at least to some extent some of the pressure that places all of this emphasis on the price of drugs instead of talking about the value of drugs topics include gun control, racial profiling and mental health. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon everyone i will ask you to please silence your cell phones and give you a moment so that you can do that. I chair the center for biotechnology and Global Health policy at the universit
Halfway through the first volume of the landmark history of the Federal Reserve. Not only having worked at the Federal Reserve, but having had lunch many, many times talking about his history, i have followed closely over time the massive transformations that has occurred at the fed, just since the financial crisis but over my lifetime. And before, and to think that the first 10 years of my life we were on the Gold Standard, you know, it suggests that things have changed a lot. And so when a friend at the wall street journal called up to ask if i would review a new book by a university of pennsylvania professor named peter contibrown called that are independent of the Federal Reserve, i jumped at the chance because of two things. One, i really do love that they. I think it had a big positive impact on my professional life at its a very important place in washington filled with people who want to do the right thing. They sometimes fail but i love the spirit of the food. The second thing
Producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime. I dont know how many people have any connection to any of the prisons in illinois, but my guess is that they are fairly distant to many of us. Prisons are in many ways Huge Industry in illinois and at the center of the criminal Justice System here. Although you both come at the issue from different angles, id like too first talk about how you came to the subject. Baz. So, i was i actually in a strange way came through journalism. Was doing a lot of writing for main stream publications about crime and pop culture and th
Making of mass incarceration in america. Harvard bookstore is takes place on friday afternoons during the Academic Year as a way to highlight books in a wide range of scholarly fields. I next and final friday foreign featured malcolm case representing his new book on policing reform, handcuffed her to learn more about this and are many other upcoming events, visit us online at harvard. Com or pick up a copy of our flyer next to the door on the way out. Todays topic will include the time for questions on which we will have a book signing at this table. We have copies of from the war on poverty to the war on crime for sale at the registers. Are please to a cspan booktv here typing todays event. When asking question you will be recorded and later the second for the microphone to come to you before asking your questions. As always, todays title is 20 of part of how we say thanks for buying books from Harvard Bookstore. Or purchase support the help is series and support the bookstore. Final
Good afternoon, im steve mills, reporter the talk tribune tied we talk about prison, the astounding growth of the prison population in america and the roll prisons play in society and how that might change in the future mitchell guests are Baz Dreisinger and Elizabeth Hinton. Baz is the author of incarceration nation a she visited prisons in Nine Countries to better understand our attitudes towards crime, punishment and incarceration. A professor at john j. College in new york, baz is also a journalist, film and radio producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime.