Summer schedule 2007

27 July-interview with Ronald Coase (series Liberty Fund)

2 august-documentary about global warming: An Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction? with Steven Hayward

august 9-interview with Israel Kirzner (series Liberty Fund)

august 16-Three short films about the american system of State insurance: 7.65 Solution. America is Listening

august 23-interview with John Hospers (series Liberty Fund)

30 august-documentary about the war against terrorism: Confronting Iraq. Conflict and Hope

The films takes about 50 minutes, are in English and does not have subtitles.

The Jack Bull (11 July 2008)

Plot summary: The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard (L.Q. Jones), a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy (Rodney a. Grant). When a local judge throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder, and the possible defeat of Wyoming's bid for statehood. (Wikipedia)

The screening is TV out, no subtitles.

You may read the three-page introduction in preparation to the topic of "taking justice into one's own hands ':

Nozick-Anarchy, State and Utopia, pp 54-55

Commanding Heights-episode 1 (24 October 2008)

The global economy < <, energized by technological change and unprecedented flows of people and money, collapses in the wake of the terrorist attack …. The year is 1914.

Worldwide war results, exhausting the resources of the great powers and convincing many that the economic system itself is to blame. From the ashes of the catastrophe, an intellectual and political struggle ignites between the powers of government and the forces of the marketplace, each determined to reinvent the world's economic order.

The ascent of Money (Video Night, 23 Jan, 4.PM.)

A documentary by Niall Ferguson about the role of money in the history of civilization. The film looks and the causes that led to the current economic crisis, including monetary policy, the use of modern tools of financial incompetence by the investors, and Government intervention on the real estate market.

Details on PBS