What About the Poor? Big Ideas Live! Recap with Mike Munger
Why do some people get trapped in poverty? How do laws, norms, and values affect public policy aimed at alleviating poverty? Will the poor always be with us, and what does that mean?
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In this lecture from the FEE Summer Seminars Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education, discusses the inspiring life of Thomas Clarkson and his role in abolishing slavery.
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Why is it so controversial when the government commissions art? Is it crazy to spend millions of dollars on a painting? What is the most valuable art you own? The answers to these questions, and what they can teach us about life and each other, might surprise you.
Poverty is a big deal – it affects about 41 million people in the United States every year – yet the federal government spends a huge amount of money to end poverty. So much of the government’s welfare spending gets eaten up by bureaucracy, conflicting programs, and politicians presuming they know how people should spend their own money. Obviously, this isn’t working.
This week on Words and Numbers, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan delve into how people can really become less poor and what that means for society and the government.
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In this video from FEEs archive Professor Peter Lewin discusses Austrian Capital Theory with students attending a summer seminar in 2004. To watch this video uncut or to download the audio, go to http://ht.ly/1DBeJ.
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Professor Peter Boettke talks to students attending FEE summer seminars in 2006 about the past, present and future of Austrian Economics. For more information visit http://fee.org/
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Just because we've had a system of central banking for 100 years doesn't mean we ought to. In fact, it's starting to look like central banks do more harm than good. From obscuring the true cost of credit to causing confusion about good investments, central bankers end up papering over economic problems. And when they send the wrong messages to savers and consumers trying to coordinate their plans, boom and bust cycles lengthen and worsen.
Learn more about the problems central banking causes at http://www.FEE.org/centralbanking.
Scripted, animated, and produced by Steve Patterson. Extremely special thanks to Julia Patterson.
You can now watch this video with Portuguese subtitles thanks to Portal Libertarianismo. Click here to watch with Portuguese subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M943aTh4kas
Gregory Rehmke discusses money, inflation, gold, paper currency, banking, the Federal Reserve, the supply of money, Keynesianism, Monetarism, Austrian monetary theory, and more.
Filmed at the 2011 FEE High School Summer Seminars.
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