the rhetoric of economics, and why liberalism works host: deirdre mccloskey gun in your moscome in your most re, why liberalism works, you write that the west side of chicago should be a heigh high first commercial at diggity. guest: because then people would have jobs other than dope sellers and can because once it was before the highly segregated history of chicago extended to the west side there were lots of factories and jobs, and now because of regulations of various, it s not. it s just a free zone. there are some by the sheer act of will kept th take to the strn good condition. host: use a regulations. give an example. guest: business in chicago in most places in the united hates it s worse than brazil or egypt. it takes months. it s hard to do. you ve got to get permits and a business license to braid hair, a famous case. to earn a living breathing hair you need a state license. why should people have to jump rough these hoops to start a business? in the 50
years? guest: it is hard to give an overview because we live so much moment to moment, one of the biggest changes we had was this president, this administration that seems to be crisis or tweet every hour. i keep wondering how many more wheels are there to come off the bus. we had a total breakdown in political discourse and any degree of cooperation even with the sense of reasonable governments. i as a progressive who had the policy support for reagan tax cuts. i don t want to be overly do we hide about people working together, tempo neil, reagan having a beer. to slug it out, you win and lose and move on and there was some concern for the overall value of keeping things moving. if they didn t work out to your advantage, we ve seen a total break ground breakdown before trump. the merrick garland fight was a gigantic step in one party saying to another party we are not going to play by those rules anymore. we are going to be as obstructionist as possible and use every loo
i m david burton, senior fellow in economic policy at the heritage foundation. our subject today is is it humane to be a socialist? highly relevant subject it is. today s event is the fifth and the speaker series we call free-market, the ethical economic choice. the provides a moral and ethical critique of socialism and makes the case for the moral superiority of a free economy. i want to bring to your attention the next two events in the series on november 15 george giller of the discovery institute will give a talk called capitalism, is an information learning system. and november 30 mike monger of duke university will give a talk, and poverty is a real problem in capitalism is the only solution. i would also like to bring to your attention an event that s not part of the series but may be of interest to you on november 16 gregory may will be here to talk about his new book, jefferson s treasure, how albert ãsaved the new nation from debt. gallatin i think is a seriously u
shouldn t give up the math or the numbers or anything like that, but it should add to it what we can learn from the humanities from i don t know gurta and shakespeare. a mozart for that matter i learned a lot from mozart. every time i hear the flute and harp concerto, so it s it s an all hands-on deck idea that in order to truly understand our economic lives. we have to understand our all our whole life. and in particular the modern economics not adam smith the the blessed adam smith. i m an episcopalian. i always cross myself when i mention adam smith. but not adam smith, but his his followers. tended to narrow. the field until now economists think they can do economics just by watching people. that s okay. i m not against. watching people but watching people doesn t tell you about the meaning. that they bring to their economic life. i mean, what does your job mean to you? what does consumption? mean to you these are important questions which the humanities consider. and tha
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