Series, saturday at 10 p. M. And sunday at 4 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv. Next, Cornell University history professor Lawrence Glickman describes how the modern concept of Free Enterprise formed in the 1930s during the rise of the new deal. He is the author of Free Enterprise an American History. Lawrence glickman is in the department of history at cornell. Enterprise to free in 2019, he has written for. Ther books he writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. [laughter] with hisn review articles was named one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachel for the behindthescenes work and pete, eric, and christian and all organizations that make this possible. Thank you to all of you for coming out. I am honored by the size of this audience. No historian works alone. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before and i would like to begin by mentioni
Guess was basing her thing on f d r Franklin Delano roosevelt and his new deal so the Green New Deal is supposed to be a jobs program and a Climate Change deal we have with us James Howard Kunstler and randy volar jim now tell us what you think of a Green New Deal is it a great jobs program is it a bad jobs program is it a good reason to have a deal its when you wish upon the star program because you know weve entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of Wishful Thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately were not going to run while disney world the u. S. Military suburbia the interstate highway system. And our great metroplex cities on any combination of all to fuel and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricates. The equipment for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to ha
Cities on any combination of all fuels and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the quitman for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately this is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines 2 things that are really should be combined one is Climate Change denial the green part and one is that governments can possibly do. I think positive the new deal part so these are 2 areas that the predominant Political Forces like to tell us are socialist or theyre impossible or we dont have the money for them so all the branding on this is horrible is there a way to prese
Now tell us what do you think of a Green New Deal is it a great jobs program is it a bad jobs program is it a good reason to have a deal. When you wish upon the star program because you know weve entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of Wishful Thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately were not going to run while disney world the u. S. Military suburbia the interstate highway system. And our great metroplex cities on any combination of all fuels and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the equipment for all. All these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately this is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running i
A bad jobs program is that a good reason to have a deal its see when you wish upon the star program because you know weve entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of Wishful Thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately were not going to run while disney world the u. S. Military suburbia the interstate highway system. And our great metroplex cities on any combination of all to fuel and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the quitman for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately. This is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines