Have. My name is george on the Program Director at the Commonwealth Club on behalf of all of us i want to welcome you. Thank you so much for coming down to tonights terrific program with Charles Schwab in conversation with adam oshinsky. We are very appreciative to have you all here how many of your members of the commonwealth atake you very much if you are not a member this is a great time to join their all kinds of terrific programs coming up a great building with a great roof deck, great programs like the one in here and theres a gentleman named billy in the back of the room. We will be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. You are welcome. Please take a moment to turn off cell phones and devices that might make noise during the program. Let me tell you about a couple of upcoming programs at the Commonwealth Club. October 31 halloween at noon a awill be with us. On november 12, there is not a comment in that, just so you wont know. November 12 National Review edit
[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
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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