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[inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the Cato Institute. I direct the center for global liberty and prosperity here at cato the title and style of the book were featuring today, socialism sucks, is admittedly more irrev vanity than the typical more staid Public Policy books but i can assure you that the authors that we are featuring today are serious, accomplishments economyis whose decade of scholarly work inform the publication. Thesen title two economists drink the way through the unfree world gives a flavor nor unton generalizational approach. That subtitlele didnt surprise me. I tend to run into ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country, and around the world, and inevitably they have drinks in their hands. Probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. And thats also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic so its fortu
She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do
Books that we usually organize events around here at cato. But i can assure you the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist with decades of scholarly work in forming this publication. The subtitle of the book two economists drink their way through the unfree world gives us the flavor of their unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle didnt surprise me though. I attempt to run into ben powell and bob lawson at academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably they have drinks in their hands probably because we chat at event perceptions and the like but the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. That is also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate for two it is rather that we are featuring today the first day of the late lovell Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman one of the great economists of the 20th century and a champion of economic and overall human