Summer 2007 Schedule:

• 27th July- Interview with Ronald Coase (from the “Liberty Fund” series)

• 2nd August- Documentary about the Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction? With Steven Hayward

• 9th August- Interview with Israel Kirzner (from the “Liberty Fund” series)

• 16th August- Three short movies about the American system of state assurances: 7.65 Solution. America is Listening

• 23rd August- Interview with John Hospers (from the “Liberty Fund” series)

• 30th August- Documentary about the War against the Terrorism: Confronting Iraq. Conflict and Hope.

The movies last for approximately 50 minutes, are in English and they have no subtitles.

The Jack Bull (July 11, 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 a three page introduction in preparation to the topic of ‘taking justice in one’s own hands’: Nozick – Anarchy, State and Utopia, pp 54-56

Commanding Heights – Episode 1 (October, 24 2008)

A global economy, energized by technological change and unprecedented flows of people and money, collapses in the wake of a 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.

Ascent of Money (Video Night, 23rd January, 1600)

A Niall Ferguson documentary on the role of money in the civilization history. The film shows also the causes that lead to the current economic crisis, including the monetary policy, the ineffective use of the modern financial instruments by the investors and the government involvement on the house market.

More details on PBS.