this week's book of the week is david boaz "libertarian mind a manifesto for freedom." what it means when someone describes him or herself as a libertarian. that includes people like rand paul alan greenspan and david boaz does a great job explaining ideas that animate a floss fall discussion. anyone interested in politics this is a valuable resource and important look. now for the last look. it is challenging for americans to have their children stuck at home during this seemingly endless winter weather. so imagine just how arduous a nationwide half year hiatus would be all while battling a deadly epidemic. this week thousands of children returned to school in liberia for the first time in over six months. classes were back in session in some places once hands were washed and temperatures were taken, of course. according to reuters, the ministry of education in liberia hopes all schools will hope in march. the children's return to school is encouraging. they have not yet seen the last of the largest ebola outbreak in human history. but as you can see from these charts

david bows of boaz of the cato institute calls this parasite economy.t's from his libertarian mind. >> there's two ways to get rich in any society. you can make it and trade with others or take it from people who have produced something. and i call making it the economic means of wealth, and taking it, the political means. and some of the people who take are criminals. they -- they rob you. they embezzle from you. but more importantly are the people who use government to take from you. stossel: and that's growing numbers. and what do you mean parasite economy, what's what's the scam, judge the scam is you're not producing something of value yourself -- stossel: or enough value to get people to voluntarily give you money. >> you might use a tariff to prevent people from buying from your foreign competitors or get the government to give you a subsidy. you might get them to pass a law so that they can't compete with you. you're glomming on to the wealth they produce. when parasites attack us, we have to spend some effort fighting them off. >> and the fight

i am david boaz executive vice president of the institute and its my honor today to be able to introduce and moderate this program. we hear a lot these days for the past few decades about moral decline in america, moral decline in the world. it covers a lot of different areas. not clear that those are always the most relevant areas to what we might consider public morality. bill bennett made a career out of talking about moral decline. lots of radio talk shows have that is a common theme. most days there's an op-ed in the "washington times" decrying moral decline in america and indeed i saw recently that three-quarters of americans think that we are in a period of moral decline. so it seems pretty convincing but there is an argument that we are in an era of moral progress and i think more people are starting to speak up on the side of both moral progress and economic tangible progress in the world. as i point out in my own forthcoming book, the libertarian mind, we have in fact seen a reduction in the world in war, slavery violence of all kinds. we have seen a tendency toward individual