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[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