postcoital mention david hume twice. who is he? >> guest: david hume is one of the most important philosophers most people would say of the postmodern. since about 1600. he was a radical empiricism, that is someone who try to develop a theory of knowledge and of morals and entirely on the basis of experience. that led them in certain ways to be something of a skeptic, raising doubts about the existence of causality, even of ourselves and serious doubts about religion. he was also adam smith's best friend and he preceded adam smith and writing interesting essays on economics and many of his insights and five smith incorporates the system in the inquiry into the wealth of nations. host our other guest is russell roberts is an economics professor at george mason university you in the washington d.c. area and a research fellow at the hoover institution. he is a weekly podcast called econ talk. what is that? >> guest: an hour-long interview with economist, authors, the guy who sold me my car, an expert on and come anything i think is in

that includes figures like david hume as well as adam smith, and i like to suggest to the students smith provides a quite remarkable maltol philosophy and social science can be brought together and sometimes look at his moral philosophy in connection with wealth of nations and see how they interact. >> host: good evening and welcome to the special addition of book tv on c-span2 in prime time. we will be live for the next hour looking at adam smith's "the wealth of nations" and want to take your calls, e-mails and tweets. so if you'd like to call the two guests will tell more in the second but if you would like to call in with the guests and talk about adam smith and "the wealth of nations," here is the numbers for you to call, 202-737-0001 if you live in the stand central time zones, 202-737-0002 for those in the mountain and pacific time zones and you can always send an e-mail at book tv@si stambaugh word or you can send a tweet, twitter.com/booktv is the address. the guests are samuel "the wealth of fleischacker from chicago and is a professor at the university of illinois in chicago a

postcoital mention david hume twice. who is he? >> guest: david hume is one of the most important philosophers most people would say of the postmodern. since about 1600. he was a radical empiricism, that is someone who try to develop a theory of knowledge and of morals and entirely on the basis of experience. that led them in certain ways to be something of a skeptic, raising doubts about the existence of causality, even of ourselves and serious doubts about religion. he was also adam smith's best friend and he preceded adam smith and writing interesting essays on economics and many of his insights and five smith incorporates the system in the inquiry into the wealth of nations. host our other guest is russell roberts is an economics professor at george mason university you in the washington d.c. area and a research fellow at the hoover institution. he is a weekly podcast called econ talk. what is that? >> guest: an hour-long interview with economist, authors, the guy who sold me my car, an expert on and come anything i think is in

this scotland became the seat of the industrial revolution that it produced such luminaries as david hume and adams met it wasn't because of a religious reformation but it was because of the rise of trade and commerce. was because of capitalism. it's capitalism that made the west in many ways into what is and it is capitalism that the muslim world in that sense requires. the class essentially drove this in the west was a middle class that was rooted in markets and was routed in commerce and trade. when i speak people often say there is a middle class in the arab world, there is a middle class or there is a middle class here and there. but what we mean by middle class it doesn't just mean a sort of relatively affluent, relatively prosperous middle society. what we essentially that middle society that is tied to the market forces and that is tied to commerce. if we thought about the parts of the muslim world you have a middle class but it's of generating wealth, it is living off of wealth so if we went to saudi arabia or algeria or egypt there is a middle class that middle class is not prod

david hume kennerly @ been shooting on the frontlines of history for more than 40 years.ok arresting photography of vietnam. he returned stateside in 1973 and covered the political drama playing out in washington for "time magazine." he was the chief white house photographer during the ford administration. david bell does begin the personal photographer for -- david valez became the personal photographer george h. w. bush. he founded a photography consulting group based in maryland. robert mcneely bought his first camera while serving in the army in 1968. in 1972, he joined a campaign staff in washington, d.c. where he made his base for 30 years. he worked in the white house and in 1982 was asked to become the clinton campaign photographer and later the personal photographer of the president. he worked there until 1998 when he left to publish his book "the clinton years." one year ago tonight, he photographed the inauguration of barack obama with david hume kennerly. eric draper was the white house photographer for george w. bush, directing the conversion of the white hou

but david mann hg toing had tol you sought to delay the position as long as possible and we heard from the lord and mr. humeons of the delay? >> absolutely. what was to be very clear, you could note do it unless the military were ready to do it. it is true, i explained this morning, for a time we were worried about the visibility of all the planning were do a certain amount of planning then you reach another level when you have to make it very visible and very clear. and we didn't want to do that for fear of triggering assumption we were actually going to do military action, irrespective of what was going to be happening at the united nations. however, when, i think it was at the end of october 2002, it was said to me, we've really got to get on with this and we did. i know it was said confident that the uk military was fully ready by the time we took the military action. >> but, i mean, was that assurance given to you because they wanted to give you a few of the -- the approach, do you think -- >> no. the one thing about the military, in my experience, is they tell you bluntly, quite rightly, what their si