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I can assure you that the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist who is decades who worked to form this publication. The subtitle of the book to economist drink their way through the unfree world gives us the unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle did not surprise me though. I tend to run in to ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably had drinks in their hands, probably because we chat at the hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. And that is also true of the new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So it is fortunate that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late freedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him and for some of us who work with him to a limited degree. He too would agree
Socialism sucks, is more irreverent than most Public Policy books we usually organize events around here at cato but i can assure you the authors we are featuring today are serious accomplished economists with decades of scholarly work. Inevitably, they have drinksn their hand, probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative, and fun. Thats also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate, fortuitous rather, that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late milton friedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him, or some of us to have worked with him to a limited degree. Im sure he, too, would agree with the title of the book, though i i cant really recallm ever putting his opposition to socialism in quite those terms. Today, socialism has gained an appeal among some americ
[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
A matter of chance. You just saw how every home is a happenstance on youre born somewhere driven out of there donate your kidney to science over here lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. Act to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has an enormous influence on your birth brings with it in all trouble facts a birth happened somewhere fun and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. Travels home to his birthplace on the banks of the drain a river in bosnia he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at titos yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. Nationalism and war forced the family to flee from it because. I dont we wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and a file of stories that were there about the present always dips into the past if we took the same route today my mother and i would have ended up standing in front of