after that, economists robert lawson and benjamin powell and socialism sucks about their travels to socialist countries. book tv this week and every weekend on c-span 2. tonight on the communicators, from the annual state of the net conference, internet archive creator talks about documenting the internet. >> we collect about 800 million pages every day. the total collection is about 800 billion urls. it is actually kind of huge, and it turns out that only is part of what we do. we also archive television, abc, nbc, cbs, fox, but also international television, and if you go to tv.archive.org, you can search to find clips of what other people said and be able to put those in blog posts and the like. the idea is to make it so that

also tonight robert lawson and benjamin powell on their book, socialism sucks. >> and the communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington dc. we will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. brewster kahle, what you do for living? >> i run the archives. internet library on the internet that catalogs books, trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. >> that sounds like the internet. doesn't it? >> guest: the internet is getting there but the published works is not fast enough. the average life of a webpage is only 100 days. before it is changed or deleted. one hundred days. we built our culture on this ever shifting hand soap with the internet archive it takes snapshots of the webpages on websites every two months. it takes a snapshot and it's been doing this since 1996 and offers it as a free service on archives .org and used by hundred of thousands of people a day to find all the things that been disappeared either maliciously or sometimes just drop off the

also tonight robert lawson and benjamin powell on their book, socialism sucks. >> and the communicatorston dc. we will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. brewster kahle, what you do for living? >> i run the archives. internet library on the internet that catalogs books, trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. >> that sounds like the internet. doesn't it? >> guest: the internet is getting there but the published works is not fast enough. the average life of a webpage is only 100 days. before it is changed or deleted. one hundred days. we built our culture on this ever shifting hand soap with the internet archive it takes snapshots of the webpages on websites every two months. it takes a snapshot and it's been doing this since 1996 and offers it as a free service on archives .org and used by hundred of thousands of people a day to find all the things that been disappeared either maliciously or sometimes just

. >> next, a communist robert lawson and benjamin powell talk about their travels to socialist countries. it's a basis of their book, socialism socks, two economists make their way through the unfree world. this event was hosted by the cato institute. >> good afternoon, and welcome everybody i direct the global liberty and prosperity at cato. in the style of the book we are featuring is socialism sock

let's let the authors tell their story, and will begin by hearing from benjamin powell and bob lawson and then my comments from matt kibbe. ben powell is director of free market institute and the purpose of economics in the texas tech university. is a north american editor of the review of austrian economics and the past president of the association of private enterprise education and the senior fellow at the independent institute. he's a number of, the author of a number of books including out of poverty published by cambridge university press, and making poor nations rich, published by stanford university press. his recent findings have been reported on whether 100 popular press outlets such as in your times and the "wall street journal." bob lawson is the professor of practice at jerome centennial chair in economic freedom and is a director of the o'neill center for global markets and freedom at southern methodist university at the cox school of business. he previously taught at auburn university and capital university, and he is the co-author of the widely cited economic freedom o

economists robert lawson and benjamin powell talk about their travel socialist countries, the basis of their book "socialism sucks," two economists drink their way through the unfree world, this was hosted by the cato institute. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to the cato institute. i direct the center for global liberty and prosperity at cato. the title and style of the book

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after that, economists robert lawson and benjamin powell and socialism sucks about their travels to socialistcountries. tv this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> tonight, from the annual state of the net conference internet archive creator rooster tail talks about documenting the internet . >> me collected at about 800 million pages every day. the total collection isabout 800 million . so it's actually kind of huge and it turns out the only is part of what we do, we also archived television, abc, nbc, cbs, fox but also international television and if you go to tv.archive.org you can search by clips of what other people said and put those in blog posts and the like. the idea is to make it so people can compare and contrast critically about what happened on television. >> what's the communicators on c-span2. >> c-span2 has round-the-clock coverage of the response to the coronavirus pandemic and it's all available on demand at cspan.org/coronavirus. what white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials ,

after that, economist robert lawson and benjamin powell and socialism sucks, about the travels to socialist countries. book tv this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> tonight on "the communicators". from the annual state of the net conference internet archive creator brewster kail talks about documenting the internet. >> we collect about 800 million pages every day. the total collection is about 800 billion urls, it's kind of huge. it turns out that the it's only part of what we do. we also archive television, abc, nbc, fox but also international television and if you go to tv . archive .org you can find clips of what other people said and be able to put those in blog posts and the like. the ideas to make it so that people can quote, compare and contrast and think critically about what is happened on television. >> what "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. speak c-span has around-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. ... watch on demand on-demand anye unfiltered at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> tonight, , special evening edition of "

>> next, a communist robert lawson and benjamin powell talk about their travels to socialist countries. it's a basis of their book, socialism socks, two economists make their way through the unfree world. this event was hosted by the cato institute. >> good afternoon, and welcome everybody i direct the global liberty and prosperity at cato. in the style of the book we are featuring is socialism sock soc. i can assure you that the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist who is decades who worked to form this publication. the subtitle of the book to economist drink their way through the unfree world gives us the unconventional approach for a couple of academics. that subtitle did not surprise me though. i tend to run in to ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably had drinks in their hands, probably because we chat at the hotel bars and the like. but the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. and that is also true of the new book. this is a light book about a heavy

after that, economists robert lawson and benjamin powell and socialism sucks, about their travels to socialist countries. book tv this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> tonight on the communicators from the annual state of the net conference, internet archive creator brewster cale talks about documenting the internet. >> we collect about 800 million pages every day, the total collection is about 800 billion url's, so it's actually kind of huge and in terms of-- that turns out to be only part of what we do. we also archive television, abc, nbc, cbs, fox. and international television. if you go to tv.archives.org, you can search to find clips much what other people said and be able to put those in blog pos posts. the idea is so people can compare and contrast what people stay on television. >> 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> the u.s. senate is about to gavel in for

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