Event in las vegas because usually las vegas is just about swapping entertainment and so forth. But with our renaissance gathering where we talk philosophy, history, science and technology, healthy living, music and dance. A little bit of everything. Its a little girl arts education. Liberal arts. We have over three and 300 spey authors. Whatever subtitles is great ideas, great books and great thinkers. We are one of the few organizations that as a conference at the center of our exhibit hall is a bookstore. We sell people hundreds of books at freedom fest. We are delighted to have booktv as part of the freedom fest. Host whats the political philosophy behind freedom fest . Guest we are nonpartisan but theres no doubt that we attract more of a libertarian and conservative audience. But we have a lot of wealthy investors here and its hard to pin point politically what investors are. For example, two years ago we had donald trump who came at the last minute. He appeared 711 in 2015, so i
Marriage on the oneyear anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling, and america has drifted from the founders original ideas of liberty and justice. And those are just a few of the authors on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] were going to get started. I have a lot of books to mention, so i want to make sure i get them right. Thanks for all being here, and thanks especially to the folks on our panel, mark, steve and george. Were really pleased that youre here. The last theres been a lot of talk about that over the last generation, maybe the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people whether theyre low income, midd
That ive been thinking about for a really long time. Before i was a fulltime author, i was a High School Computer science teacher. I taught for 17 years at a high school in oakland, and i would teach in this really visual way. I would do a lot of drawing on the board to explain to my students. I always thought, man, a lot of this could really work well in a graphic novel series. I teamed up with a friend of mine named mike holmes, and together we are trying to introduce fundamental Computer Science concepts to middle school kids through comics. Host how did you go from a High School Teacher to a National Book award nominee . [laughter] guest its kind of crazy. Each when i was a fulltime teacher, i would do comics at night, in the morning, in the summers host did you think they could be published . Guest it was for me. Host really . Guest i never thought itd be a source of income. Some people, you know, play golf to relax, and that costs a lot of money. Im going to publish comics to rel
Sums up all these various subjects through the exposition of information theory, which i think is the major scientific breakthrough of the century, the information theory, behind all our technologies, and i believe its best explained our economy. Host do you identify as an author or identify as a consultant or what . Guest im not a consultant. Although, clayton christian, the 27th most influential consultant. He used to be a partner of mine. So its but im chiefly a writer, but i also have been an investor, and im a venture capitalist, and im serious about that work, which has supported me as much as my books over the years. Host whats been your best seller . Guest my best seller was wealth and poverty which made me president reagans most quoted living author. What are some of the things you have invested in that have succeeded . Guest well, a company which is the leading Knowledge Network company, creates its a Software Program that connects you to consultants, and they signed up hundr
Gathering of three minds to put on a conference that is a renaissance gathering of freethinkers. My idea has been the Freedom Movement broadly defined. Host politically what does that mean . Guest economic and maximum freedom libertarians we are not anarchist although we do have some here and it is growing. The ada is most libertarians are like hertz of cats face seldom get together to conspire. [laughter] so my idea is they dont do any live streaming. You can buy the tapes after words but 2200 people and plan of a wide. Organize libertarianism . Is working. I am in economist growing up in Portland Oregon that is the intellectual town in the Worlds Largest bookstore for i have been the intellectual type so the renaissance man is correct. And then to have a ph. D. Of economics my family lives in death star. That is what we call it but we a got tired of the rat race we lived in the bahamas life in living color recede enough in taxes to buy a flat in london then removed back to orlando no