>> cspan has booktv every weekend. keep watching for more. >> and booktv visited capital hill to ask members of the congress what they are reading >> i have taught economics for the past 18 years and seminary before that so i read a combination of economics and ethics. people thought that was a joke but i take it seriously starting with hidden in plain sight by peter wallace. it is the causes of the financial crisis. if you don't have account of the causes it is hard to solve the issue going forward. we don't want that happening now. the are some signs we are headed

in the wrong direction with the debt to gdp being off track and hence in the mortgage business the federal reserve and others have heavy lifting to do. that is the main economic piece i want to read. the west is the western sinathize between the greeks and the enlightment reason. i thought that for the last 18 years. i am reading who is justice, which rationality by alister mack in tire. and i have the moral vision of the new testament by hays who is considered one of the mostben on the moral vision of the new testament. and then i have an analyst on the chicago school by nelson. i have been dabbling in the

books for a long time. the other is called bojure dig dignity. it is written by a renaissance scholar herself. she is a chicago-school trained economist but validated by a bunch of nobel prize winners. she has a six volume work and i referred you to the second volume. it takes on the causes of long-run economic growth which most people are not familiar with but it is the issue that improved human welfare more than any other issue you can make. her argument is all civilization income per person is about $500 a year for all history until

1800 and in 1800 you get massive explosive growth in the free market countries. so there is a lot of speculation on the true cause of that. i did my phd on this. she takes on every single one of the papers. it isn't capital human capital, science, rnd private property, the industrial revolution and she baits all of the variables. she concludes the biggest cause of economic growth is first time in history, 1800 the culture changed the moral language so we started to call the business person morally good. education was neutral on that. do we say businesses are morally good or corrupt? in higher ed the answer is business is morally bad. a lot of history has that

feeling or belief and if that is your proper scission don't expect a lot of growth. so i think we need to do a little work yet examining that and getting back on track saying how do we make business morally good. paying attention to that is important. kids in the inner cities lower income folks their only hope is to enter the free market economy with a well-paying job. if we are teaching the next generation business is morally bad why would a kid sign up for that? it is not attractive. she will refer you to a thousand other offers in the set. her first book is similar and dealt with the history of virtues from plato on. that is my reading list. right reading for the summer on the beach. so i look forward to the stack. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading this summer. tweet us our answer at booktv or

post it on our facebook pageism facebook.com/booktv. here is a look at books being published this week. in taking a stand, presidential candidate and senator, rand paul offers his choice of reform on the country including education, and a change in policy. ...

>> "how propaganda works." and neurobiologist richard francis explores the history of animal and plant domestication and how human civilization affects the evolutionary process in "domesticated: evolution in a manmade world." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. >> judith miller is next on booktv. she talks about her experiences as a journalist with "the new york times" and the scandals surrounding her reportage on weapons of mass destruction. >> let me say by way of introducing our guest this evening, a journalist -- journalists, as a general rule, have an aversion at becoming the story. they prefer to keep