prescribe it and she takes a cut, this is ridiculous. >> santa rosa california, you are on with deirdre mccloskey. thank you for having me on, this is my first exposure to doctor mccloskey. thank you for being real. >> thank you. >> i have heard you describe yourself as a christian liberal, how is that different from libertarianism, you distinguish herself differently -- excuse me i'm a little nervous, but how would you compare yourself from ron paul style of libertariani libertarianism. >> i call myself libertarian in the passed, i voted for one every chance i got, now i vote straight libertarian ticket although i think this time if the dems put up -- say joe biden, even in chicago where is pointless i will vote for him symbolically. but there is most between us. ron paul has some strange opinions about race which i wish he would not have had but he was somewhat obsessed with the central bank but we agree that there should be not 1 million regulations such as the federal government now has, a lot fewer. and a free press and they could protect us from the danger of being poisoned in a restaurant

. >> and now on booktv, we're live with author and professor deirdre mccloskey.fessor mccloskey's many books include "the rhetoric of economics," the bourgeois era and why liberalism works. >> host: deirdre mccloskey, in your most recent book, "why liberalism works," you write that the west side of chicago should be a hive of commercial activity. why should? >> guest: well, should because then people would have jobs other than being goat peddlers. and can because once it was. before the highly segregated history banned it to the west side, there were lots of factories, lots of jobs. and now because of regulations of various kinds, it's not. it's, it's a free -- it's a free fire zone. not all of it. there are some streets where people by sheer act of will kept the street in good condition and they're not going to allow any of -- anyone to deal drugs. but then for the most part it's very sad. >> host: you say regulations. give an example of some of those. >> guest: well, to start a business in chicago and most places in the united states, worse in brazil or egypt,

this month, each economic scholar and retired professor, deirdre mccloskey. here's just a sampling of the 23-24 books that she has written. beginning with "the bourgeois era" in 1998. "the rhetoric of economics". how to be human. the bourgeois virtues, dignity and equality came out in 2006, 2010 and 2016. economical writing, the 30 edition came out last year. as did her most recent, "why liberalism works". and we've quoted a little bit from that. we will put the phone lines on the screen if you like to participate. for those of you who live in the east and central time zones, 202-748-8201 for the mountain and pacific time zones. you can also send a text message. just include your first name in your city. 202-748-8003 is the number two text into. we will also scroll through our social media sites because you can make a comment on facebook or twitter or by email. as well. we will get to those quickly. first of all, what is this piece of paper i'm holding up here? >> i'm a kind of engineer at heart. i like to note magnitudes. what is it magnitude? which i think

starting at noon eastern on "in depth," a live conversation with deirdre mccloskey.t recent book is why liberalism works. other titles include the rhetoric of economics and the bourgeois era trilogy. join in the live conversation with phone calls, tweets and facebook messages and at 9:00 eastern andrea bernstein chronicles the trump and kushner families in her latest book american oligarchs. >> the president is a private businessman was extremely adept at fending off criminal investigations so he made sure he understood who his friends were and they understood who he was and he was able to make it work for him. he was never charged in a criminal case. it is interesting to have that background in the rearview mirror, where he is being called to account and there's a public reckoning and in some ways even though he is president he is not able to make things go away as he once did. >> watch featured authors every weekend on booktv on c-span2. our c-span campaign 2020 bus is traveling across iowa ahead of the caucuses asking voters what issues should presidential candida

. >> next, it's booktv's monthly "in depth" program with author and prover deirdre mccloskey. professor mccloskey's many books include "the rhetoric of economics," the bourgeois era and why liberalism works. >> host: deirdre mccloskey, in your most recent book, "why liberalism works," you write that the west side of chicago should be a hive of commercial activity. why should? >> guest: well, should because then people would have jobs other

. >> and now on booktv, we're live with author and professor deirdre mccloskey.fessor mccloskey's many books include "the rhetoric of economics," the bourgeois era and why liberalism works. >> host: deirdre mccloskey, in your most recent book, "why

because republicans and we indeed have had conservative economists like deirdre mccloskey on this programmeot a problem that acts as a real break on economic growth, because what really matters is encouragement of innovation, the rule of law, intellectual property rights, which allow great ideas to drive the economy forward." that‘s their contention. why is that a zombie idea? there are several points there. i mean, i actually — so it‘s interesting, there are quite a few people on the left who are sure that inequality hurts economic growth. and i have never been enthusiastic about that case. i think that‘s maybe because i‘d like to believe it, and so i actually try not to lean into ideas that i would like to believe. i think inequality is bad because, first of all, it means that large numbers of people don‘t share in the fruits of economic growth. we‘ve seen stagnation of wages despite productivity growth. we‘ve seen that for several decades. and i would also argue that inequality warps the shape of a society. when you start to have a situation in which there‘s a small group of people who l

sunday, book tv features the latest books from andrea bernstein and an author and professor deirdre mccloskey. conversation with deirdre michalski. other titles include the rhetoric of economics. join in the live conversation with your phone call, tweets and facebook messages. and after your -- afterward, andrea bernstein on her latest book. >> the president was extremely adept of putting off criminal investigations, so he made sure who his friends were and they understood who he was. he was able to make it work for him. it is interesting to have that where he is being called into account and there is reckoning and in some ways even though he is president, he is not able to make things go away as he once could. >> watch this weekend and every weekend on book tv on c-span2. schedulednt trump is to deliver his state of the union address before congress next tuesday, february 4. sunday, we look back to bill clinton's 1999 state of the union address. preview. >> thank you very much, please be seated. >> members of congress, i have the high privilege of presenting to you the president of the unite

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starting at noon eastern on in-depth a live conversation with deirdre mccloskey her most recent bookeralism works. other titles include the rhetoric of economics and the bourgeois era trilogy. join in the live conversation with your phone calls for tweets, and facebook messages. at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words" andrea bernstein chronicles the trump and kushner families in her latest book "american oligarchs". >> where the president as a private businessman was extremely adept at sending off criminals investigations. he made sure that he understood who his friends were and they understood hugh he was. he was able to make it work for him. he was never charged in any criminal case. it's interesting to have that background sort of in the rearview mirror as they go into the impeachment situation where he's being called to account and where there is a public reckoning and where in some ways even though he's president he is not able to make things go away as he wants could. >> watch featured authors this weekend and every weekend on booktv@c-span.org on c-span2. >> on our offer intervi

democracy from villains, vandals, and ourselves" from the truck safety coalition and sergeant deirdre mccloskey from commercial vehicle safety association. i want to thank the witnesses for traveling to participate in this hearing. all of you are widely respected within your organizations and have unique experiences and perspectives that are valuable to us as we continue our work to improve the safety and efficiency of america's trucking industry. i would like to invite ranking member durbin for opening remarks. >> i want to apologize for being late this morning. thank you for your patience and thank you to the chairman for the hearing and thank you for joining us today to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing us commercial trucking industry. our global competitiveness is closely tied to the efficient transportation network. the nexus between interstate commerce and commercial trucking demonstrates the relationship with federal investments and our nation's economic prosperity. up to 18 billion tons of grapefruits moved across the united states in 2018, 12 million tons valued $12 trill