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Natural Law & Enlightenment Classics Series Timeline Poster
Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund Inc
2004
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This full-color, frameable poster features a timeline of historical events and figures surrounding the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series. Spanning the years 1540 through 1840, it is designed to provide both a visual representation of the period and a broader historical context for the forthcoming titles in the series.
Recognised as one of the most influential voices in the areas of market structure, the theory of the firm, law and economics, resource unemployment, and monetary theory and policy, Armen Alchian outlines the UCLA tradition of economics which he helped found, explores its many unanticipated consequences. Approximate running time: 64 minutes.
Conversation with Manuel Ayau / Una Conversación con Manuel Ayau DVD
Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund Inc
2005
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Manuel Ayau is the founder and former rector and teacher of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. In addition to being a successful businessman, he is a former chairman of the Guatemala Stock Exchange, was a member of the Guatemala House of Representatives, and served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society. It is conducted in English and Spanish. Approximate running time: 69 minutes
One of our most distinguished contemporary cultural historians, Jacques Barzun reflects on his long academic career and the movement of ideas he helped to shape through his insightful writings on liberal education in America. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.
One of the 20th century's leading thinkers on the relationship between free trade and the economics of developing countries, Lord Peter Thomas Bauer discusses his clear ideas on the effectiveness of government aid and intervention in the Third World. Approximate running time: 58 minutes.
Gary Becker was named the 1992 Nobel laureate in Economics for 'having extended the domain microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour'. He is the University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago and the Rose-Marie and Jack R Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.
James Buchanan is a celebrated Nobel laureate economist, prolific author, and scholar of liberty. In Part 1 he discusses the theory of public choice, his exchange theory of economics, and constitutional thought. In Part 2, the conversation moves to such topics as the work ethic, the logic of free markets, subjectivism, anarchy, federalism, the influence of philosophy and the significance of the Nobel Prize. Approximate running time: 120 minutes
Ronald Coase received the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. His articles 'The Probelem of Social Cost' and 'The Nature of the Firm' are among the most important and most often cited works in the whole of economic literature.
Richard Cornuelle has greatly impacted how we think about voluntary institutions in the United States. Through such works as 'Reclaiming the American Dream' and 'De-Managing America', and through his work with the Foundation for Economic Education and the Volker Fund, he has called important attention to the needs and possibilities of those organisations that exist to address social problems through non-governmental means. His latest work points to what he believes is a great liberating social transformation that is already underway. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.
M Stanton Evans is the former editor of The Indianapolis News and founding director of the National Journalism Center in Washington DC. The Journalism Center is dedicated to teaching young journalists not only the technical skills of their trade, but a deep understanding of the issues they will be covering. Over 1300 young journalists have trained at the centre, and have gone on to jobs at all the major news channels, magazines, and newspapers across the country. Evans has been a columnist for the Los Angles Times Syndicate and a commentator for CBS radio-TV, NPR, and the Voice of America. He is the author of seven books. Approximate running time: 66 minutes.
Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman has been recognised as one our important economic thinkers. He was a Senior Research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and also the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago.
Considered a leading voice in criminology and political philosophy, Ernest van den Haag discusses his ongoing work in criminal law and criminology, and he explains how his great insights relate to his central belief in a free society. Approximate running time: 77 minutes.
As leaders of the Institute of Economic Affairs, or IEA in London for many years, Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon pioneered the thoughtful application of free-market principles and greatly influenced public policy and economic thought throughout he world. Approximate running time: 59 minutes.
One of the foremost historians of the Industrial Revolution discusses what really happened to the quality of life and standard of living for those who lived throughout the industrialised West. Approximate running time: 66 minutes.
John Hospers is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Southern California and author of such important philosophical texts as 'Meaning and Truth in the Arts', 'Human Conduct', and 'An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis'. Approximate running time: 59 minutes.
Harry Jaffa is a leading political philosopher and among the most influential scholars on Abraham Lincoln. His classic 'Crisis of the House Divided' is a study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates that closely examines Lincoln's defence of the principles of the American Founding and Union.
The relationship of the individual and the state is the central theme of Anthony de Jasay's distinguished career. Here he discusses the concepts of power, politics, and freedom that led to such brilliant works as 'The State'. Approximate running time: 67 minutes.
Among the foremost scholars in the continuing development of the Austrian School of economic theory, Israel Kirzner discusses the working of a free society and illuminates the vital role of entrepreneurs in the economic process. Approxiamte running time: 61 minutes.
Paul McCracken's influence on how we think about economic policy has reached from the academy, to the popular press, to the highest reaches of government. He is the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1948. Approximate running time: 61 minutes.