please join me in welcoming senior fellow diana furchtgott-roth. [applause] >> thank you very much, howard, for that very kind introduction. and thank all of you for coming. i'm really grateful that you could be doing so many of the things today and coming to listen to me, but yet here you are, listening to me talk about green jobs and the fallacies of green jobs. i'd like to thank the manhattan institute not only for supporting this research but for organizing this talk. i'd also like to thank john, a mechanical engineer, who is here and to advise me on the technical aspects of energy in the book, and to read the whole manuscript to check on the scientific details of it. well, this is an appropriate day, talk about regulating the disaster because last night president obama promised once more to develop the entity sources of the future. now, when any administration, republican or democrat, decides to develop energy projects, taxpayers had better watch out. governments get in the business of picking winners and losers which leads to cronyism and was

. >> booktv continues now with diana furchtgott-roth. she takes a critical look at president obama's green jobs initiatives and argues that it hurts the economy. this is about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon. i'm vice president for policy research at the ma