you say it is easy to point fingers and say these said bad people, replace them with somebody else, no. this is a system that has everything in it that is healthy for bad behavior. if you have people rationalize, all of them show up on wall street in terms of the ability to rationalize. everybody else is doing it, part of economic theory, rationality, all of those things so we need to think differently about the system we are creating. we are limited, we have all kinds of irrational tendencies and if we build a system that takes this into account the will be better off and if we build systems that ignore our irrationalities we would have more and more failures. >> host: we have been talking with dan ariely, duke professor, author of three books, the most recent is this one, "the

(honest) truth about dishonesty: how we lie to everyone--especially ourselves". thank you, professor. >> booktv asks what you reading this summer? >> i am finishing up louise's latest book, she may have one after that but i would recommend it to anyone who wants to understand native american jurisdiction and perhaps one of the challenges the we have in terms of law and order on the reservations. she just writes with such a wonderful year. may i spend enough time in indian country and she catches it so well, very authentic and the valley of amazement, amy tan, i read anything she writes, she is a great author and i have a friend who has great concern about the privacy debate and she sends me lots of books and so actually i tried to go through some of the books being written about privacy challenges in

america because i think those are the challenges we will experience over the next couple years in new legislating and trying to protect people's privacy but in a way that does not shut down this wonderful development of access to information. >> tell me a little bit about your childhood and reading. >> i read a lot as a kid. i am so old we only had three channels and on any given good day you could get one. i think we all read more because there wasn't a lot of entertainment alternatives. so i spent a lot of time reading nancy drew, the hardy boys, cit hilton. don't know if anyone would know the old chip hilton books but he was a sports hero and we loved him and i loved books about car racing and that is our form of entertainment. now i think what you see if it is not a eire potter series or a

hunger game series both of brought reading back to kids in a very positive way, but i think it takes kind of a big blockbuster to do that. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what is on your summer reading list, tweet us at booktv. post it to our face book page or send us an e-mail, booktv@c-span.org. >> c-span's new book c-span at aid, the fall of the soviet union this >> the soviet system in eastern europe contained the seeds of its own destruction. many of the problems we saw at the end begin at the beginning. i spoke already about the attempt to control all institutions and control all parts of the economy and political and social life. one problem is when you do that, when you try to control everything you create opposition and potential dissidents everywhere. if you tell all artists they

have to paint the same way and one artists as i don't want to paint that way, i want to paint another way you made him into a political dissident, somebody who might otherwise have been apolitical. if you tell boy scout troops they're not allowed to the boy scouts now any more, they have to be young pioneers which is what happened in the number of countries, and one group decides they don't like that and former secret underground boy scout troop which absolutely happened, underground scouts were important in poland throughout the communist period, you created another group of political opponents from apolitical teenagers. >> read more with other features interviews from book notes and q&a programs and c-span sundays at 8:00 from public affairs books available for a father is a gift that your favorite book seller. you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious

readers. >> here are some programs to watch for on booktv. on sunday join us for 3 hour conversation with historian and many --amity schlaes. she will answer questions on twitter and facebook. for information join us on line. susan strahnahan talks about the foolish enough power plant meltdown in japan. and a panel discussion on the black power movement with actor and producer danny glover, kathleen cleaver and brian jones. for more information on this weekend's television schedule visit us online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. this weekend booktv is talking with authors and publishing executives at the publishing industry's annual trade show book expo america. what booktv coming weeks to see

these interviews and more. on june 7th and eighth we are live from the chicago tribune literature fest, the weekend also features the first sacramento black book fair. on saturday june 21st of franklin roosevelt presidential library will hold their eleventh annual roosevelt reading festival which features numerous author talks, look for coverage of the roosevelt reading festival on a future weekend. let us know about book fairs and festivals happening in your area and we will lead them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> one of the stories that resonated with me was the moment they are dithering about whether or not they need to to inject c water into unit 1 and it is a matter of the clock is ticking and they are down to the wire

and yushida, the plant superintendent who in the end would have to make the final call knows it is desperate, they need to get water in there very quickly. meanwhile everybody wants a say and the japanese government officials and the other officials were having an ayn rand he gets an order from one of the supervisors that the government hasn't signed off on this, he has to hold off. he has already started and so he calls one of his staff people over and says i'm going to give an order bus ignore it. he is very loudly proclaiming so everybody in tokyo can hear, all this you water injection. to me that was a human element in that story in which in japan,

ignoring the rules and acting on your own is not rewarded. here was a moment when a guy knew that if he didn't act, things would go even more worse than they were going. >> more of the tsunami resulting meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant tonight at 10:00 eastern. ..