Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 2: The Tyranny of Control

Topic: The Case for Free Trade Government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive innovation, and consumer choice. Good, better, best, are replaced by "approved" or "authorized." Friedman shows how "established" industries or methods, seek government protection or subsidization in their attempts to stop or limit product improvements which they don't control. Friedman visits India, Japan and U.S.
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Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 3: Anatomy of a Crisis

Topic: What caused the Great Depression, and how future depressions can be avoided The Great Depression has been popularly viewed as a failure of capitalism. The stock market crash, the failure of the Bank of the United States, loss of personal savings, were visible symbols supporting this belief. As Friedman explains, the real cause was the unseen failure of government policy and action. Yet this crisis resulting from government failure leads to decades of government expansion.
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Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 4: From Cradle to Grave

Topic: The welfare system's effect on society The welfare state arises from the attempt to do good with other people's money. Such attempts always fail because: Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as his own. Welfare is supply driven. Those spending the money use force to collect it and to insure those receiving it use it for "right" purposes. Good intentions are corrupted by bad means. Friedman visits U.S. and Britain.
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Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 5: Created Equal

Topic: Is equality attainable or even desirable for society? The Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal." Friedman explains that this did not mean all persons should or will have equal talents or income. Equal opportunity to better one's self, and the right to personally benefit from the gains realized, are consistent with freedom. Equality of results requires force. Taking from some to give to others destroys freedom and removes the incentive for creating new wealth. Friedman visits India, U.S. and Britain.
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Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 7: Who Protects the Consumer?

Topic: Are Consumer Protection Agencies the best way to protect the consumer? Various government agencies have been created on the claim that they will protect the consumer. These agencies restrict freedom, stifle beneficial innovation, and become agents for the industries or groups they are intended to regulate. Friedman explains how the apparent chaos of the market place, the competition of many suppliers for business, is the best protection of consumer interests.
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Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 8: Who Protects the Worker?

Topic: How government protection, minimum wage, and unions affect workers Unions sometimes protect some workers - their members - but usually at the expense of other workers. Government protects its employees and special groups of workers at the expense of other workers. Both unions and government restrict freedom. Friedman explains how the competition of employers for the talents of workers leads to the highest wages and best working conditions.
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Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 9: How to Cure Inflation

Topic: Why Politicians Favor Inflation and How to Prevent It Inflation results when the amount of money printed or coined increases faster than the creation of new goods and services. Money is a "token" of the wealth of a nation. If more tokens are created than new wealth, it takes more tokens to buy the same goods. Friedman explains why politicians like inflation, and why wage and price controls are not solutions to the problem. Friedman visits Japan, U.S. and Britain.
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Free to Choose 1990 - Volume 2: The Tyranny of Control

Topic: The Case for Free Trade "When anyone complains about unfair competition, consumers beware." Friedman tells us about the writings of Adam Smith who, 200 years ago, warned that businesses always try to sell for the highest price and will try to control the market to do so. But without government help businesses cannot force people to buy their goods. Consumers will always get the lowest possible prices when competition is free and robust. Introduced by George Schultz. Discussion with Michael Walker, Fraser Institute and Steve Cohen, UC Berkeley.
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Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 6: What's Wrong With Our Schools?

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Parental choice and parental responsibility in the education of children is the U.S. tradition and is consistent with a free society. Centralized government control has eroded freedom and adversely affected the quality of education. The poor help pay for education for the future rich. Friedman has long advocated using vouchers to solve the problem. In "Free to Choose 1980 Volume 6 - What's Wrong With Our Schools?" he explains why. Friedman visits U.S. and Britain and debates Albert Shanker; President of the American Federation of Teachers, John Coons; Initiative for Public Choice in California, Thomas Shannon; National School Boards Association, and Gregory Anrig; Department of Education. Free To Choose was an award winning PBS television series featuring the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. 10 films make up the series, each featuring a short documentary where Milton Friedman presents his views on a given topic followed by a discussion and debate with various participants including politicians, academics, business people, et al. In general the views expressed are contrary to the status quo of government involvement in daily life. At the time the series first aired it was given poor time slots by station managers that did not want it broadcast, and the program was even banned in France. Despite this suppression, the series went on to become a smash success leading to the best selling non-fiction book of 1980 and a follow-up series in 1990.
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The Age of Wal-Mart

The Age of Wal-Mart interviews CEO Lee Scott, explores the circumstances that led founder Sam Walton to create Wal-Mart, highlights the innovation that Wal-Mart has engaged in to apply robotics and logistics in it's mammoth distribution centers is shown, exposes it's business practices in dealing with manufacturers, and shows it's ongoing expansion–now internationally into countries like China.
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CBC - Global Warming: Doomsday Called Off

In this eye-opening documentary viewers will discover how the most respected researchers from all over the world explode the doom and gloom of global warming. Humans stand accused of having set off a global climate catastrophe by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The prophecy of doom is clear and media pass on the message uncritically. Now serious criticism has arisen from a number of heavyweight independent scientists. They argue that most of the climatic change we have seen is due to natural variations. Scientists interviewed in the film include: Dr. David Legates, Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware Jorgen Peder Steffensen, Curator, Niels Bohr Institute Department of Geophysics Dr. Sallie Baliunas, Astrophysicist, Harvard University Dr. John Christy, University of Alabama in Huntsville Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, Stockholm University
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Citing Thomas Jefferson from "Profanity and Free Speech" Environmental Hysteria Sweatshops from "Wal-Mart Hatred" Norman Borlaug on Genetically Modified Food from "Eat This!"
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! is an Emmy-nominated American documentary television series that has been on the air since 2003 on the premium cable channel Showtime. It is hosted by professional magicians/comedians Penn & Teller. Many episodes aim to debunk what the hosts see as pseudoscientific ideas, supernatural beliefs, popular fads and misconceptions, and often from a libertarian point of view, the political philosophy espoused by both Penn and Teller. The show criticizes proponents of what they perceive as nonsense and dishonesty—bullshit—often citing ulterior political or financial motives. The stated aim of the show is to apply critical thinking to misconceptions, and as is indicated by the show's title, the program adheres to Penn & Teller's characteristically blunt, aggressive presentation. Supernatural subjects of episodes include alien abduction, alternative medicine, and ESP; other episodes cover social issues such as the War on Drugs, animal rights, gun control, education, and environmentalism. Showtime has not permitted full episodes of Bullshit to remain on Google Video and YouTube, however some excellent short clips such as the ones above are available and of course all episodes are downloadable through Bit Torrent.   Episode List Season 1 101 Talking to the Dead (John Edwards) 102 Alternative Medicine 103 Alien Abductions 104 End of the World (Doomsday Prediction) 105 Second Hand Smoke / Baby Raising 106 Non-Surgical Sexual Enhancements 107 Feng Shui / Bottled Water 108 Creationism vs Evolution 109 Self-Helpless (Self-help Seminars) 110 ESP 111 Eat This! (Dieting, Genetically Modified Food) 112 Ouija Boards / Near Death Experiences 113 Environmental Hysteria Season 2 201 P.E.T.A. 202 Safety Hysteria 203 The Business of Love 204 War on Drugs 206 Profanity and Free Speech 205 Recycling 207 Yoga / Tantric Sex 208 Fountain of Youth (Plastic Surgery) 209 Death, Inc. (Funerals) 210 12-Stepping 211 The Bible: Fact or Fiction? 212 Exercise vs. Genetics 213 Hypnosis Season 3 301 Circumcision 302 Family Values (Traditional Family Structure & Marriage) 303 Conspiracy Theories 304 Life Coaching 305 Holier Than Thou (Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Dali Lama) 306 College 307 Big Brother 308 Hair 309 Gun Control 310 Ghost Busters 311 Endangered Species 312 Signs From Heaven (Miracles and Religious Icons) 313 The Best Season 4 401 Boy Scouts 402 Prostitution 403 The Death Penalty 404 Cryptozoology 405 Ground Zero (911 Rebuilding) 406 Pet Love 407 Reparations 408 Manners 409 Numbers 410 Abstinence Season 5 501 Obesity Epidemic 502 Wal-Mart Hatred 503 Breast Hysteria 504 Detoxing 505 Exorcism 506 Immigration 507 Handicap Parking 508 Mount Rushmore 509 Nukes, Hybrids, & Lesbians 510 Anger Management
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ABC 20/20 - Whose Body is it Anyways? Sick in America

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Most everyone agrees, America's health-care system is a mess. Millions of Americans lack health insurance and still our annual health-care costs exceed $2 trillion — that's about the size of the entire economy of China. For the country with the world's "best" medical care, a lot of people seem unhappy. Many hate the insurance industry. Employers have seen insurance premiums rise 87 percent over the last seven years. General Motors now spends more on its employees' health insurance than on steel. Doctors are fed up, too; the average physician's office spends 14 percent of its income filling out paperwork. No one seems angrier than the patients who have been denied care. Vicki Readling of North Carolina was diagnosed with breast cancer after she had quit her job and lost her employer's insurance. Readling purchased temporary insurance for herself, but when it expired she was told that because of her pre-existing condition — cancer — she would now have to pay $27,000 a year for a new policy. With an income of $60,000 and twin sons in college, she couldn't afford it. Insurance industry spokeswoman Karen Ignani is eager to report that most people aren't like Readling. Polls show that while people dislike the insurance industry in general, 87 percent of people with health insurance are happy with their coverage. Only 3 percent of health insurance claims are denied, she says. In his hit documentary "Sicko," Michael Moore focuses on tragic stories of people whose insurance claims have been denied. His prognosis? He calls for "the elimination of private profit-making health insurance companies" and suggests turning over all health-care spending to the government to provide "free" health care to everyone. He goes to countries like Canada and Britain and implies that their socialized systems are far better than that of the United States. 'What It Costs When It's Free' There are many problems with health insurance, but that doesn't mean we should put the government in control. If it's decided that health care should be paid for with tax dollars, then it's up to the government to decide how that money should be spent. There's only so much money to go around, so the inevitable result is rationing. It's just the law of supply and demand. Lowering prices increases demand. Lowering the price to nothing pushes demand through the roof. Author P.J. O'Rourke said it best: "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." When health care is free, governments deal with all that increased demand by limiting what's available. The reality of "free" health care is that people wait. In the United Kingdom, one in eight patients waits more than a year for hospital treatment and the British government recently set its goal to keep wait times to less than 18 weeks — that's more than four months! In Canada, almost a million citizens are waiting for necessary surgery and more than a million Canadians can't find a regular doctor. In the small town of Norwood, Ontario, a weekly drawing is held in which a townsperson wins the right to access the town's one family doctor. Governments ratchet down health-care costs in different ways. Doctors went on strike last year in Germany because their government's system pays them less than they thought they deserved and forces them to work thousands of hours of unpaid overtime. In the United Kingdom, one hospital was inspired to save money money by not changing sheets daily. British papers report that instead of washing the linens, nurses were told to just turn the bedsheets over. Government is less the answer to our health-care crisis than the problem. It was our government that helped to create the absurd system in which two out of three Americans get health insurance through their employer. In a country where four in 10 Americans change their job every year, this system makes little sense; it leaves people like Readling without coverage when they need it most. Related Stories The government also makes insurance expensive by mandating the medical services that policies must cover. Required services vary state by state and include massage therapy, pastoral counseling, acupuncture, hair prosthesis and dentures. Such mandates are a reason why an individual policy in New Jersey costs around $4,000 a year while a policy in Iowa costs only a third of that. Yet insurance regulations make it illegal for someone in New Jersey to buy a policy from out of state. The Way We Pay Another problem that raises costs, and keeps individuals from controlling their own health care, is the way we pay for medical care. Out of every dollar that the United States spends on health care, only 12 cents comes out of the pocket of patients, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Most of us have our medical expenses covered by a third party, either an insurance company or the government. When we pay for health care with someone else's money, it creates nasty incentives. It's good to be covered in case of a medical catastrophe, like a heart attack or cancer, but when patients pay for almost everything from physicals to acupuncture using third-party money, they have no reason to care about cost. Because the buyers don't care about cost, neither do the health-care providers. "It's gotten to the point where doctors don't even know how much it costs them to provide this service or that service or how much an office visit should cost. Try asking a doctor how much an office visit costs and watch their face go blank," said Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute. Our health-care system has become totally removed from the competitive market forces that have improved every other area of the economy. If patients cared about cost, health-care providers would compete to attract patients. They'd do innovative things to keep costs low while increasing quality. Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, author of "Who Killed Health Care?", reminds people that "when Henry Ford came around, cars cost more than houses." By competing for profit, Ford revolutionized the auto industry. In eight years, he cut the price of cars in half while improving quality immensely. In nearly every sector of the economy, prices drop over time as technology improves. Not so in health care. Customer Service, Competition, Control Can you e-mail or call your doctor to ask quick questions? In the 21st century, when even small children regularly use computers, many doctors and hospitals don't. "Why would they?" said Dr. David Gratzer, author of "The Cure." E-mail and telephone consultations aren't things most doctors can get paid for. Dr. John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis, said, "The federal government has a list of 7,500 procedures it will pay for — the telephone's not on the list [and] neither is e-mail." But when patients are in control of their health-care spending, things get better. Lasik surgery isn't covered by most insurance policies, so patients pay for this high-tech procedure out of their own pocket. It's for this reason that laser surgeon Brian Bonanni gives out his cell phone number and e-mail address to all of his patients. He knows that he has to attract patients by making himself available. Competition has also made Lasik cheaper: While in nearly every other field of medicine, prices have gone up faster than consumer prices in general, the price of Lasik has fallen by as much as 30 percent. The quality of the surgery has also improved. The difference is that people care about prices when they spend their own money, so providers compete to offer services that are faster, better and cheaper. John Mackey, CEO of the supermarket chain Whole Foods, saw his insurance premiums rise through the roof so he changed the way his employees got health care. He proposed a health insurance plan with a high deductible. To help meet that deductible, the company puts money into a "personal wellness account" for each employee and employees use that money to pay for routine care. The money in the account belongs to the employees and puts them more in control of their health-care spending. Employees pay for the small stuff, like sore throats and sprained ankles, but their health insurance covers them in case of a catastrophe. Accounts like these are typically called HSAs, or Health Savings Accounts. Mackey saw Whole Foods' health-care costs drop by 13 percent the first year the plan was in place. Some employees objected. They wanted the old "full-coverage" plan back. One wanted "pet bereavement services" covered. Whole Foods then held a vote and "77 percent of team members voted for the health plan that we have today," said Mackey. Today he says most of his employees love the plan because it allows them to spend the money how they want to spend it. 'You and Me' Whole Foods' health-care costs have been creeping back up lately. Mackey says it's because there are so few people with health plans like his. Only 4.5 million people in America have Health Savings Accounts, according to a 2007 census conducted by America's Health Insurance Plans. That's a tiny fraction of the insurance market, but consumer-directed health plans are a step in the right direction toward placing individuals — not government or insurance companies — in charge of their health-care dollars. The more people control the money they spend on their own health care, the more people shop around and the more providers compete to attract patients by lowering prices while improving quality. It's putting individuals in control that could turn our health-care sector into the vibrant, competitive marketplace that we see in nearly every other area of our economy. After all, it's our body and our health. Shouldn't we be in control of how our health-care dollars are spent? Harvard's Herzlinger said, "Who should decide whether you live or die? Do you want the government to decide? Do you want a health insurer to decide? Who's gonna make that decision? Is it gonna be a government? Is it gonna be an insurer? Or is it gonna be you and me?" Putting individuals in control of our health — rather than our employers or the government — is a better way to cure what ails America's health system.
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Globalisation is Good

The world is an unequal and unjust place, in which some are born into wealth and some into hunger and misery. To explore why, in this controversial Channel Four documentary the young Swedish writer Johan Norberg takes the viewers on a journey to Taiwan, Vietnam, Kenya and Brussels to see the impact of globalisation, and the consequences of its absence. It makes the case that the problem in the world is not too much capitalism, globalisation and multinationals, but too little. "Globalisation is good" tells a tale of two countries that were equally poor 50 years ago - Taiwan and Kenya. Today Taiwan is 20 times richer than Kenya. We meet the farmers and entrepreneurs that could develop Taiwan because it introduced a market economy and integrated into global trade. And we meet the Kenyan farmers and slum dwellers that are still desperately poor, because Kenya shut its door to globalisation. The Kenyans are suffering from regulations, corruption and the lack of property rights. The unequal distribution in the world is a result of the unequal distribution of capitalism - those who have capitalism grow rich, those who don't stay poor. The film also explores the role of multinational corporations, especially the most criticized - Nike. In Vietnam we see that Nike's so called sweatshops give the Vietnamese better working conditions and many times the wages they would have otherwise. Instead of hurting the country, Nike contributes to rapid growth, poverty reduction and less child labour. Domestic factory owners visit Nike to get ideas on how to improve productivity and working conditions. If that is exploitation, then the problem in the world is that the poor are not sufficiently exploited. The film concludes that we must fight for more globalisation if we want to help the poor countries. EU-protectionism is the worst obstacle today. We spend so much on agricultural protectionism that each of our 20 million cows could fly round the world once every year. The problem is not that we in the West are trying to trick poor countries into global capitalism. The problem is we are shutting them out from it. Therefore, the anti-globalisation movement is ignorant and dangerous. Far from protecting poor people the movement is inadvertently helping to keep them poor.
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The Philosophy of Liberty

When Ron Paul talks about the philosophy of liberty, this is what he means. The philosophy of liberty is based on self-ownership. This simple but elegant and hard-hitting animation will explain exactly what that means. It's a great tool anyone can use to educate children and adults about our right to life, liberty, and the property we create - and our responsibility to think, speak and act. Credits Author: Ken Schoolland schoolak001@hawaii.rr.com Producer: Kerry Pearson (aka Lux Lucre) Music: Music2Hues www.music2hues.com Copyright: www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
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Commanding Heights: The Battle For the World Economy

The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance without ever causing a loss of consciousness for the viewer. Part 1, The Battle of Ideas, chronicles the history of economic thought from the start of the 20th century and its socialist reforms right through the deregulation of the 1980s. Part 2, The Agony of Reform, explores the upheavals that such deregulation caused, focusing primarily on economic growth and gains and touching briefly on the wrenching consequences for the poor. Part 3, The New Rules of the Game, explores the consequences of globalization, including terrorism and the contagion of market collapse. The series makes good use of both large-and small-scale examples, and features interviews with several major world leaders. Big ideas are made extremely accessible to the average viewer (without condescension). Well worth watching.
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More Info CHAPTER LIST EPISODE 1: THE BATTLE OF IDEAS Chapter 1: Prologue Chapter 2: The First Era of Globalization, Keynes and Hayek Chapter 3: Communism on the Heights Chapter 4: A Capitalist Collapse Chapter 5: Global Depression Chapter 6: Worldwide War Chapter 7: Planning the Peace Chapter 8: Democracy and Free Markets, enter Milton Friedman Chapter 9: Germany's Bold Move Chapter 10: India's Way, The Science of Central Planning Chapter 11: Chicago Against the Tide Chapter 12: Stagflation, Richard Nixon, Price Controls Chapter 13: A Mixed Economy Flounders, Thatcher and Hayek Chapter 14: Deregulation Takes Off, Airlines and Sandwiches Chapter 15: Thatcher Takes the Helm Chapter 16: Reagan Rides In Chapter 17: War in the South Atlantic Chapter 18: The Heights Go Up for Sale Chapter 19: The Battle Decided? EPISODE 2: THE AGONY OF REFORM Chapter 1: Prologue Chapter 2: The essence of Soviet Power, Socialism's Influence Chapter 3: Behind the Iron Faτade, no water, no fire, no incentives Chapter 4: India's Permit Raj, Hindustan vs. Toyota Chapter 5: Latin American Dependencia Chapter 6: Counterrevolution in Chile, Salvador Allende Assasinated Chapter 7: Chicago Boys and Pinochet Chapter 8: Heresy in the USSR Chapter 9: Poland's Solidarity Chapter 10: Bolivia at the Brink Chapter 11: Shock Therapy Applied Chapter 12: The Miracle Year in Poland Chapter 13: Poland in Transition Chapter 14: Gorbachev Tries China Chapter 15: Soviet Free Fall Chapter 16: Reform Goes Awry Chapter 17: India Escapes Collapse Chapter 18: Russia Tries to Privatize Chapter 19: Loans For Shares Chapter 20: Closing the Deal Chapter 21: A Decade of Radical Change EPISODE 3: THE NEW RULES OF THE GAME Chapter 1: Prologue Chapter 2: The Global Idea Chapter 3: NAFTA: The First Test Chapter 4: Crossing Borders, Mexico Chapter 5: The Global Market Chapter 6: Emerging Market Hunters Chapter 7: Averting a Meltdown: 1994 Chapter 8: The Global Village Chapter 9: China and the Tigers Chapter 10: The Japanese Paradox Chapter 11: Global Contagion Begins Chapter 12: Contagion Engulfs Asia, Indonesia Implodes Chapter 13: Russia Defaults Chapter 14: The Crisis Reaches America, LTCM Chapter 15: Anti-Globalization Movement Chapter 16: The Streets of Seattle, Free-trade Double Standard Chapter 17: Failure at the Summit, The World Bank Under Attack Chapter 18: The Global Divide, Poverty Chapter 19: Capitalism Redefined Chapter 20: The Bottom End of Globalism Chapter 21: Changing of the Guard Chapter 22: The Battle Resumed, Quebec City 2001, Protests Chapter 23: After 9/11 CAST BILL CLINTON, President of the United States of America, 1993-2001 VICENTE FOX, President of Mexico RICHARD CHENEY, Vice President of the United States of America JEFFREY SACHS, Director, Columbia University Earth Institute MILTON FRIEDMAN, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago GEORGE SHULTZ, U.S. Secretary of State, 1982-1989 LARRY LINDSEY, Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy, 2001-2002 LAWRENCE SUMMERS, President of Harvard University; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001 ROBERT RUBIN, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1995-1999 PAUL VOLCKER, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 1979-1987 HERNANDO DE SOTO, Economist; Founder and Director, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru RICHARD GEPHARDT, Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives, 1989-2002 NEWT GINGRICH, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1995-1999 MARK MOBIUS, President, Templeton Emerging Markets MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, General Secretary, Communist Party, USSR, 1985-1991 ANATOLY CHUBAIS, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, 1994-1996 VLADIMIR POTANIN, President, Interros Holding Company GRIGORY YAVLINSKY, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, 1990 YEGOR GAIDAR, Acting Prime Minister of Russia, 1992 LEE KUAN YEW, Senior Minister of Singapore DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD, Prime Minister of Malaysia GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA, President of Bolivia, 1993-1997, 2002-2003 MANMOHAN SINGH, Finance Minister of India, 1991-1996 THEA LEE, Assistant Director for International Economics, AFL-CIO LORD KENNETH BAKER, Conservative Party Minister of British Parliament, 1981-1992 LESZEK BALCEROWICZ, Deputy Prime Minister of Finance of Poland, 1989-1991 TONY BENN, Labor Party Minister of British Parliament, 1950-2001 GORDON BROWN, Labor Party Finance Minister (Chancellor of the Exchequer) KEN CAPSTICK, Former Chairman, Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers JORGE CASTANEDA, Foreign Minister of Mexico, 2001-2003 JON CORZINE, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 1994-2001 ALEJANDRO FOXLEY, Finance Minister of Chile, 1990-1994 JOSEPH STIGLITZ, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank,1997-2000 LECH WALESA, President of Poland, 1990-1995 et al.

Free to Choose 1980 - Volume 1: The Power of the Market

Topic: The power of the market to organize information in a way that maximizes prosperity America's freedom and prosperity derive from the combination of the idea of human liberty in America's Declaration of Independence with the idea of economic freedom in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Friedman explains how markets and voluntary exchange organize activity and enable people to improve their lives. He also explains the price system. Friedman visits Hong Kong, U.S. and Scotland.
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Communism: The Promise and the Reality - 1of6 - Red Flag

When Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, they did so in the name of a new ideology. Millions were drawn by its promise. In Red Flag, the people who were there—from members of the Red Guard to party activists to students—explain how Communism appealed to their deepest hopes and dreams. Through them, we hear how Communist leadership, under Lenin and later, Joseph Stalin, compromised the proletarian ideal—and how hope eventually gave way to despair. The people remember: the storming of the Winter Palace, Lenin, Bolsheviks, civil war, mass literacy campaigns, Lenin's death, Soviets' "five-year plan," collectivization, kulaks, "show" trials, Stalin's purges.   About Communism: The Promise and the Reality Communism was the most cataclysmic social experiment of the century—a mass movement whose ideals promised hope to millions but whose methods claimed millions as its victims. Now, at the end of the century that it transformed, the time has come to document Communism's rise and fall. In Communism: The Promise and the Reality, ordinary people describe how and why they were mesmerized by the promises of Communist regimes. With those regimes collapsing around the world, they are now able to speak openly and with perspective. Theirs are extraordinary stories—stories that describe courageous acts of rebellion and heroic endurances of hardship. Never before have so many paid a price for their idealism. These witnesses participated in the most dramatic moments in the history of Communism—from the Bolshevik assault on the Winter Palace to the smashing of the Berlin Wall; from Mao's Great Leap Forward to Castro's invasion of Cuba; from the Tet Offensive to the Gdansk Shipyard strike. They also beheld the response to revolution—the crushing power of American and Soviet forces, the international arms build-up, the threat of nuclear weapons. Their voices speak of Communism's horrors, but they remind us that there was hope—for education in Ukraine, self-determination in post-colonial Vietnam, land ownership in Cuba, religious freedom in Afghanistan, national strength in China, relief from poverty in Eastern Europe. Communism did not achieve what it set out to do, but its unintended legacy, as evidenced by these witnesses, shows the power of human resilience.
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Communism: The Promise and the Reality - 2of6 - Fallout

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the end of the WWII—and also heralded the beginning of the nuclear arms race. Simultaneously, the peaceful potential of nuclear energy was held out as the hope of the future, offering cheap, clean, and unlimited energy. But early optimism and enthusiasm evaporated as the dangers of radiation and nuclear accidents became evident. Authoritarian governments ignored challenges to nuclear energy programs caused by popular apprehensions, but all governments encountered growing evidence of the costs of such programs. The people remember: the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, nuclear testing, Cuban Missile crisis, protest movements, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl.   About Communism: The Promise and the Reality Communism was the most cataclysmic social experiment of the century—a mass movement whose ideals promised hope to millions but whose methods claimed millions as its victims. Now, at the end of the century that it transformed, the time has come to document Communism's rise and fall. In Communism: The Promise and the Reality, ordinary people describe how and why they were mesmerized by the promises of Communist regimes. With those regimes collapsing around the world, they are now able to speak openly and with perspective. Theirs are extraordinary stories—stories that describe courageous acts of rebellion and heroic endurances of hardship. Never before have so many paid a price for their idealism. These witnesses participated in the most dramatic moments in the history of Communism—from the Bolshevik assault on the Winter Palace to the smashing of the Berlin Wall; from Mao's Great Leap Forward to Castro's invasion of Cuba; from the Tet Offensive to the Gdansk Shipyard strike. They also beheld the response to revolution—the crushing power of American and Soviet forces, the international arms build-up, the threat of nuclear weapons. Their voices speak of Communism's horrors, but they remind us that there was hope—for education in Ukraine, self-determination in post-colonial Vietnam, land ownership in Cuba, religious freedom in Afghanistan, national strength in China, relief from poverty in Eastern Europe. Communism did not achieve what it set out to do, but its unintended legacy, as evidenced by these witnesses, shows the power of human resilience.
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Communism: The Promise and the Reality - 3of6 - Brave New World

Just over fifty years ago, Soviet and American troops met on the banks of the river Elbe and rejoiced at the defeat of Nazi Germany. The mood was one of camaraderie between Allies, and their optimism was shared by the liberated populations of Europe. Brave New World tracks the building tension between these two superpowers, from the post-war world of the late 1940s through the early 1960s, as the hope for peace swiftly disintegrates into a "cold" war of competing ideologies between East and West. The people remember: meeting on the Elbe, refugees in Europe, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill at Fulton, Nikita Khrushchev, propaganda wars, NATO, Berlin blockade, Korea, Hungarian uprising, Berlin Wall.   About Communism: The Promise and the Reality Communism was the most cataclysmic social experiment of the century—a mass movement whose ideals promised hope to millions but whose methods claimed millions as its victims. Now, at the end of the century that it transformed, the time has come to document Communism's rise and fall. In Communism: The Promise and the Reality, ordinary people describe how and why they were mesmerized by the promises of Communist regimes. With those regimes collapsing around the world, they are now able to speak openly and with perspective. Theirs are extraordinary stories—stories that describe courageous acts of rebellion and heroic endurances of hardship. Never before have so many paid a price for their idealism. These witnesses participated in the most dramatic moments in the history of Communism—from the Bolshevik assault on the Winter Palace to the smashing of the Berlin Wall; from Mao's Great Leap Forward to Castro's invasion of Cuba; from the Tet Offensive to the Gdansk Shipyard strike. They also beheld the response to revolution—the crushing power of American and Soviet forces, the international arms build-up, the threat of nuclear weapons. Their voices speak of Communism's horrors, but they remind us that there was hope—for education in Ukraine, self-determination in post-colonial Vietnam, land ownership in Cuba, religious freedom in Afghanistan, national strength in China, relief from poverty in Eastern Europe. Communism did not achieve what it set out to do, but its unintended legacy, as evidenced by these witnesses, shows the power of human resilience.
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