CNN "Refusing
to Leave" report by Dan Simon on
the morning of 9-9-05: "This
is America. Has your neighborhood
ever been invaded by state troopers
from another state?" "I will leave
when I am dead." Ashton O'Dwyer
can't understand why he is being
forced to leave his dry, intact home
in New Orleans. He asks the city:
"Treat me with benign neglect." The
9-9-05 report was followed up by
Drew Griffin on 9-10-05 with the "Staying
Put" report that presented
businesses, and Afro-Americans,
expressing sentiments similar to
O'Dwyer's.
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Milton Friedman Video Clips, April 4, 2005
A highlight of the 2005 meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE), was a video conference with Milton Friedman in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. The video conference occurred on April 4, 2005 at the conference in Orlando. My video clips below are of poor quality, taken with a camera designed for still-shots, not videos. The camera sometimes cut off recording without me being aware, so that several of the clips end abruptly.
The president of the APEE during 2005 was Robert Lawson, who graciously encouraged me to make these video clips more widely available. (Lawson also edited and posted versions of these clips to the APEE web site.)
MVI_6731.AVI Discussion of Capitalism and Freedom. Reduction of regulations in some areas, growth in others. Changes he would make if he were writing today.
MVI_6732.AVI Monopoly. Monopoly is better than the alternatives that involve government. Henry Simons saw how badly government regulation worked; he endorsed government ownership. Friedman and Stigler came out in favor of private monopoly as the least bad option.
MVI_6733.AVI Social Security is a policy that cannot be justified. He applauds Bush's moves, but Bush does not go far enough. Social Security is cruel and unusual punishment for those who die early. Abolition is politically infeasible. But we need to move in that direction.
MVI_6734.AVI Just a question (cuts off before answer) by someone named Lopez, on dollarization.
MVI_6735.AVI What is your greatest satisfaction; and which is your greatest disappointment, in the way policy has evolved since the publication of Capitalism and Freedom. His greatest satisfaction has been the achievement of a volunteer army to replace the draft. His greatest disappointment has been the failure to reverse the role of government.
MVI_6739.AVI Education. Another disappointment has been the failure to get educational vouchers adopted. The public supports vouchers, but teachers' unions oppose them. If the government is going to subsidize anything, it should subsidize the pupil, not the school. Ideally, parents should be responsible for educating their children, just as they are responsible for feeding and clothing them.
MVI_6740.AVI Why ideas of Capitalism and Freedom haven't spread more, and what can we do to help spread these ideas? He says that's a big order. The most important area, is in education. A socialist education system, will teach the principles of socialism. That's why he has been so interested in introducing more parental choice in education. Education is one of the few areas in the U.S. that is performing worse than it was 100 years ago.
MVI_6741.AVI Education continued. Brief sentence about how difficult a task it is.
MVI_6742.AVI Health policy. Would complete privatization also benefit other programs besides Social Security? There's a good case for voucherizing medical care. One of the few good ideas recently is the introduction of health savings accounts on a permanent basis. Why should government be involved in medical care? Food is more important. Why doesn't government control global food? (To some extent, they do; but not to the extent they control medical care.)
MVI_6743.AVI Drug policy. Would you legalize illegal drugs; and would you change the FDA? Is this important or a side issue? No it's not a side issue. Drug prohibition does tremendous harm, much of it outside this country. Also, it fill our jails, it corrupts the police. Cigarettes do far more harm than marijuana. It's peoples own business if they want to smoke or use drubs
MVI_6744.AVI Drug policy continued. The regulatory excess of the FDA. There's no role for the FDA, but following the policy of incremental change, if the FDA were limited to testing for safely, not efficacy, this would greatly reduce the costs of bringing new drugs to market.
MVI_6745.AVI Concluding thanks to Friedman. He is applauded and he applauds at the end.
Photos and Video Clips from:
"International Schumpeter Society 11th Biennial Conference"
Held in Sophia-Antipolis, France from June 21-24, 2006
http://www.artdiamond.com/Nice_ISS_2006_06_21/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Nice_ISS_2006_06_22/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Nice_ISS_2006_06_23/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Nice_ISS_2006_06_24BaumolVideos2/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Nice_ISS_2006_06_24NonBaumol/
Photos and Video Clips from:
"Neo-Schumpeterian Economics: An Agenda for the 21st Century"
Conference Held in Trest, Czech Republic from June 27-29, 2006
http://www.artdiamond.com/Trest_2006_06_26/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Trest_2006_06_27/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Trest_2006_06_28/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Trest_2006_06_29/
Photos and Video Clips from:
Deirdre McCloskey UNO presentations at: 31st European Studies Conference; and Economics Seminar
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Fri., October 6, 2006.
http://www.artdiamond.com/2006_10_06McCloskeyUNO/
Hurricane Katrina CNN Video Clips
Photos and Video Clips from:
APEE Field Trip to Chichen Itza in Mexico on April 8, 2007
http://www.artdiamond.com/2007_04_08ChichenItza/
Photos and Video Clips from:
APEE Conference in Las Vegas from April 1-3, 2012
The following links are to pages of photos, mainly from the sessions that I participated in, or attended. (Some worthy events were not photographed because my camera began to malfunction during the first full day of the conference.)
http://www.artdiamond.com/2012_04_1APEEBanquet/
http://www.artdiamond.com/2011_04_2APEEsessions/
The video clips below are not of very high quality. They are low and medium resolution versions of Bruce Yandle's talk after receipt of the Adam Smith Award on April 1, 2012.
http://www.artdiamond.com/Videos/YandleSmithTalkLowRes2012_04_1/
http://www.artdiamond.com/Videos/YandleSmithTalkMedRes2012_04_1/
Photos and Video Clips from:
APEE Conference in Nassau from April 10-12, 2011
The following links are to pages of photos, mainly from the sessions that I participated in, or attended. (Some worthy events were not photographed because I was not in a good spot to take them, or because I got tired of taking them---(one of the disadvantages of depending on unpaid volunteers ;).
http://www.artdiamond.com/2011_04_10APEEphotos/
http://www.artdiamond.com/2011_04_11APEEphotos/
http://www.artdiamond.com/2011_04_12APEEphotos/
The video clips below are not of very high quality. They roughly include the first 17 minute of Elinor Ostrom's talk after receipt of the Adam Smith Award on April 10, 2011; the full 46 minutes of Deirdre McCloskey's talk on her book Bourgeois Dignity on April 11, 2011 (but not the Q & A); and the first 12 minutes of George Ayittey's talk on "Promoting Economic Freedom in Africa" on April 12, 2011.
http://www.artdiamond.com/OstromTalk2011_04_10/
http://www.artdiamond.com/McCloskeyTalk2011_04_11/
http://www.artdiamond.com/AyitteyTalk2011_04_12/
Page of Photographs and Video Clips from June 2007 History of Economic Thought Conferences at George Mason
The page linked above includes links to photographs and video clips from the Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics, held at George Mason from June 4-7, 2007; and the annual meetings of the History of Economics Society (HES) held at George Mason from June 8-11, 2007. The video clips include clips of two presentations by Nobel-Prize-winner James Buchanan; clips from a tour by Betty Tillman on her memories and on the memorabilia in the Buchanan House; clips from the early portion of a plenary address by David Warsh; clips of comments by Warren Samuels on the occasion of the announcement of the Samuels Fund to aid young scholars; and clips of comments from Warren Samuels and others at a session to honor Mark Perlman.
Video Clips from:
"APEE Economic Communicators Contest"
Held in Cancun, Mexico on April 9, 2007
The Economic Communicators Contest was held at the 2007 meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE). The clips below are mainly three minute segments of each presentation, with a few seconds gap between each segment. The first presenter was Howard Baetjer of Towson University. The second presenter was G. Dirk Mateer of Penn State University. The third presenter was Ken Schoolland of Hawaii Pacific University.
Video Clips from:
Jeffrey Sandefer "The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs"
Presented in Cancun, Mexico on April 10, 2007
Jeffrey Sandefer is an entrepreneur who has been named a top educator of entrepreneurs. He gave his presentation at the third plenary session of the 2007 meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE). The clips below are mainly three minute segments of his presentation, with a few seconds gap between each segment.
For more information on the Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship, which Sandefer co-founded with eight other successful entrepreneurs, visit: www.actonmba.org
Video Clips from:
Robert Higgs "War Fascism: How Government Corrupts Business, and Vice Versa, During National Emergencies"
Presented in Cancun, Mexico on April 10, 2007
Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute gave his presentation at the 2007 meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE). The clips below are mainly three minute segments of each presentation, with a few seconds gap between each segment. (Higgs presented a strong indictment of the current system, but, personally, I also would have liked to hear a bit more on how the system could be improved to effectively combat the genuine threats from terrorism.)
Note: The above three sections are from the second, third and fourth (of four) plenary sessions at the 2007 meetings. I regret that I missed the first plenary session due to my taking time to work on reviewing my own presentation that I was to give at a later session. From those in attendance I heard very good reports of James Tooley's presentation at the first plenary session. His presentation was entitled "Free Enterprise, Education and the Poor: How Budget Private Schools are Making Educational Poverty History."