As many of you know, david boaz, ive been here a long time. I want to remind you that well be taking question both from people here in the audience and from people watching online. And the online audience may the conversation and submit questions directly on the event page or on facebook or youtube web or on twitter using hashtag tag keto events and hopefully all of those questions will come directly to me on this ipad. And if you are asking question in here, please speak directly and clearly into the microphone so everybody can hear you here and online. A lot of my colleagues these days prefer to events in interview but im Old Fashioned and i think when an author has spent years becoming the worlds leading expert on a topic id rather give him a few minutes to tell us what he thinks is important about what hes discovered. So thats what going to do before we take questions and we two outstanding scholars to hear from. It would be presumptive of me to say much about a hike in the presenc
As many of you know, david boaz, ive been here a long time. I want to remind you that well be taking question both from people here in the audience and from people watching online. And the online audience may the conversation and submit questions directly on the event page or on facebook or youtube web or on twitter using hashtag tag keto events and hopefully all of those questions will come directly to me on this ipad. And if you are asking question in here, please speak directly and clearly into the microphone so everybody can hear you here and online. A lot of my colleagues these days prefer to events in interview but im Old Fashioned and i think when an author has spent years becoming the worlds leading expert on a topic id rather give him a few minutes to tell us what he thinks is important about what hes discovered. So thats what going to do before we take questions and we two outstanding scholars to hear from. It would be presumptive of me to say much about a hike in the presenc
Charm. Tonight, i think we will see definitive proof of that assertion when he presents his third Kansas City Public Library talk and barely more than 18 months. This time, he is offering an original treatise on economist Milton Friedman, the nobel prizewinning intellectual architect of the free market reforms of the postworld war ii era. Today, as it happens, would have been dr. Friedmans 102nd birthday. I have no doubt it will be marks best presentation yet. So you might ask, why am i willing to go out on a limb this way . As an economist might put it, on the one hand, according to the website, superscholar. Org, mark is one of the top 20 living economists in the world. I guess that designation is a gentle way of reminding us that as the no longer living economist John Maynard Keynes famously said, in the long run, were all dead. But i digress. Marks topranked status was echoed by a columnist for scientific american, who recently wrote that he has emerged as one of the clearest write
Why am i willing to go out on a limb . As an economist might put it, on the one hand, according to the website, super scholar. Org, mark is one of the top 20 living economist in the world. I guess that designation is a gentle way of reminding us that as a no longer living economist famously said, in the long run, were all dead. But i digress. Marks topranked status was echoed by a columnist for scientific american, who that he haste emerged as one of the clearest writers on all matters economic today. The next, Milton Freeman Milton Friedman. Mark comes byand, his knowledge of Milton Friedman on a firsthand basis. Reveal, they had a dear, but occasionally prickly relationship. The two of them constantly argued over a variety of issues, but always remained cordial. Mark was probably the last person to go out to lunch with Milton Friedman he for he died of a heart attack on november 16, 2006. Mark over account their friendship, will recount their friendship and discuss their differences
Real wages have barely increased for more than a decade. Banks have had to be bailed out, and many still exist on a form of state life support. Growth has stalled, taxes are at 70-year highs, yet governments are still bankrupt. Unless you happen to be part of a tiny plutocracy made up mostly of