Silence their cell phone because this is being recorded by booktv, cspan. Im happy to introduce nathan robinson, founder and editorinchief, his new book, why you should be a socialist. He is in conversation with writer and senate reformer pete davis. It is sure to be a lively conversation. Please join me in welcoming pete davis and nathan robinson. Thank you for being here today. Nathan arrived from new orleans, louisiana. How was the flight . Everything was unobjectionable and not noteworthy in any way. We are glad to have you here. Lets do a temperature check. How many of you are already socialists . That is why we are here. Most of you, the event that convinces you of things. And original cover, fingerpointing at you. The thing, the problem a lot of the audience for this book is going to people who want to book like why you are a socialist but it is directed, the original title was socialism for people who are extremely skeptical of it. The original title was socialism for people wh
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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
Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. I know the rain and the traffic have gotten in the way a bit but its lovely to have all of you here. I Melissa Muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose. Along with my husband brad grant was out of town and not here but wishes he were. I just want to say welcome to our union market store. I think some of you know this is our third politics and prose outpost, second outpost, third store. Its our newest store. We really love being here. We are glad to share this space with all of you. I also just want to say that because it is september 11 i thought we might take a few moments just to pause silently to remember that tragedy of almost 2 decades ago. [silence] thank you. It is such a pleasure for me to host Stanley Greenberg tonight. We all know hes rudeness book with times of phenomenal title, depending on your opinion, r. I. P. G. O. P. In case you start flipping to the actual text make sure you stop on the dedication page because h