Ive got a question. This . Me we live like and it wasnt always that way. For instance, at a stage of history with the socalled. Pure whites of Northern Europe were little better than savages, Eastern Africa had flourishing cultures, and the great civilization of northern china had begun to develop. All people contributed to civilization, reaching high levels at different times, each learning from the experience of the other. But there were certain basic ideas that were common to all branches of the human race, a belief in a supreme being, the home and the family. , how civilized a person is depends on the surroundings in which he grows up. The differences in the ways people behave are not inherited from their ancestors. They come from something called cultural experience or environment. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all of our video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. Next on American History tv, political economy professor and author
We have brought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. Had been introduced to a buffalo phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. There were very few of us that were doing a deeper dive into the financial aspects of his vision. His phd thesis, 1300 pages. That is staggering. Perspective, mine was a paltry 300 and his was 1000 more. It led to the first quit about bob. He cant hold his ink. Skip forward 20 years, he has 20 more books he has authored or coauthored. That led to another quip, he writes books faster than we can read them. To add to that five at volumes, the five scholarly articles, many have received awards. I am only at page 10 of his 47 page cv. Its an incredible document you should check out at his webpage. I see pictures of him with fishi
Cspan where history unfolds daily. Cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Here on cspan2, the senate dabbling in in 15 minutes to continue work on reauthorizing the house approved message on the fisa Surveillance Program and able to advance the plan for 5 30 eastern, 60 votes needed to limit debate on that. The house and senate will be working on funding the federal government past the deadline for midnight friday and possibly using another shortterm resolution to do so. The senate dabbling at 4 30 eastern or more work on the fisa Foreign Surveillance bill. A Bipartisan Group of senators held a press conference about the measure. Thank you for coming. What we have assembled today is a Diverse Group of senators from both sides of the aisle who are organizing together to filibuster the fisa bill. We are here to filibuster the bill because we think there need to be more protections for a
Dhs is complying with the court order. We have begun to accept renewals for daca. We are treating the program as preseptember last year, so if you are a current daca we will leave to go to capitol hill for a News Conference of senators talking about the National Security agencys Foreign Surveillance program. Live coverage here on cspan. Thank you for coming. What we have assembled today is a Diverse Group of senators from both sides of the aisle who are organizing together to filibuster the fisa bill. We will here to filibuster the bill because we think there needs to be more protections for americans. Fisa is about spying on foreigners in foreign lands. I think most of us agree the program has value and is useful but we should not use information collected without constitutional protection on americans. And so at the very least there ought to be a warrant to search an american in the database. The database is enormous. We think maybe millions of americans are caught up in this databas
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