And i want to welcome all of you tonight to books and books. For those of you i dont know, im Mitchell Kaplan and im going to be just introducing the person will be introducing you to the evening. As you can see tonight, we have cspan with us as well. So were very excited that theyre here. We thank them for all the good they do, all the good work they do in bringing important books to to the attention of all of us. Im also really, really thankful that that living not living, but but based here in miami, we have one of the great publishing houses, the publisher of this book, american carnage, is mango publishers. And tonight we have its its editor publisher, whatever you whatever youre now calling yourself the janitor and go and thats chris. So we welcome chris and his whole team for making really possible thank for all the good work that you do. Of course we have fred and tom, so lets welcome them before a formal welcome. Welcome. And you know, one of the cosponsors of tonight is moms
Art carden, who is a professor at samford, sam. 0rd university in birmingham, alabama. Professor carden, what do you teach down there . I teach economics at stanford university. So introductory macroeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, history and philosophy of politics and econ do you have a philosophy . Economics. You have a philosophy about economics . So im a believer that theres only one kind of economics. Theres good economics. My hope is that i practice good economics. It is what the social universe made out of. So if the physical is made out of mass, then the social is made out of economics. Its people responding to incentives in response to their constraints all the way down. It is essential, i think, to understanding the world works is something that you write. Your newest book, strangers with candy observations from the ordinary business of life nostalgia. The good old days puzzles me because they were horrible. Yeah, the good old days were terrible life for our ancestors
And i want to welcome all of you tonight to books and books. For those of you i dont know, im Mitchell Kaplan and im going to be just introducing the person will be introducing you to the evening. As you can see tonight, we have cspan with us as well. So were very excited that theyre here. We thank them for all the good they do, all the good work they do in bringing important books to to the attention of all of us. Im also really, really thankful that that living not living, but but based here in miami, we have one of the great publishing houses, the publisher of this book, american carnage, is mango publishers. And tonight we have its its editor publisher, whatever you whatever youre now calling yourself the janitor and go and thats chris. So we welcome chris and his whole team for making really possible thank for all the good work that you do. Of course we have fred and tom, so lets welcome them before a formal welcome. Welcome. And you know, one of the cosponsors of tonight is moms
find full schedule information online@booktv.org or consult your program guide. now we kick off the weekend with professor roy brinker. good evening. thank you for tuning in tonight. map of mitchell kaplan and all of us at books books and i welcome you to a virtual evening with roy richard grinker to discuss nobody s normal: how culture created the stigma of mental illness. published by our friends at norton. in nobody s normal richard graber chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental illness stigma from the 18th century through america s major wars and into today s high-tech economy. he is professor of anthropology and international affairs at george washington university. he s the author of several books including an strange mind, he lives in washington, d.c. to moderate this evenings conversation we are joined by ron suskind, a pulitzer-winning journalist and best-selling author and the founder of sidekick, the company he created support pe
Dont forget to go to our website if you dont want to go do that you can give us the email address. Pick up the copy of the newsletter on the counter. Secrecy world offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once had trusted. The investigative Journalist Team that broke that story. They are written for the washington post. Pro public advice. Nbc the editor of the texas observer. Mister jake bernstein. It is great to be here great to see so many old friends thank you so much to books in the books to mitchell kaplan. I dont know if you all know. But he now makes movies in addition to selling books in his latest is currently in theaters my wife and i saw the other day. Our review is that it is delightful. I encourage everybody to see it. They encompass an entire shadow economy. In jersey. Its also places that offer secret Bank Accounts like switzerland in singapore. And also the intermediar