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professor fleischacker, who is adam smith? >> guest: well, actually that's not such an easy question to answer, but he was a moral philosopher in scotland in the 18th century who wrote a book on a moral philosophy and used to give a set of lectures that took you from moral philosophy through the law to economics and eventually wrote a very long book on economics often considered the founding text in the field called the inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. and he's been extremely influential ever since, although as a philosopher, i wish people would look at him more as a philosopher than just an economist. >> host: we will get to that but professor russell roberts of george mason university, what has been the impact of "the wealth of nations"? >> guest: "the wealth of nations," besides teaching people economics since it was published in 76, really said a whole tone for social science. the combination of empirical work, observation, logic, philosophy, all melted together. it is an extraordinary work that
professor fleischacker, who is adam smith? >> guest: well, actually that's not such an easy question to answer, but he was a moral philosopher in scotland in the 18th century who wrote a book on a moral philosophy and used to give a set of lectures that took you from moral philosophy through the law to economics and eventually wrote a very long book on economics often considered the founding text in the field called the inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. and he's...
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professor fleischacker, what is that society? >> guest: that was a society founded about that as a society founded about 15 years ago to encourage more scholarly interest in smith. one of our models was the hume society, which did help ratchet up interest especially among philosophers and david hume. smith is of interest to not just philosophers or economists as to intellectual historian to literary theorist, often these days. and we encourage the study of smith from all and no political perspective. but to say we try to stay away from the political uses of smith for ideological purposes and simply encourage scholarly work on what he had to say in all these various areas. and we have compensated basically at least once a year and also try to encourage scholarly work and various other forms. 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
professor fleischacker, what is that society? >> guest: that was a society founded about that as a society founded about 15 years ago to encourage more scholarly interest in smith. one of our models was the hume society, which did help ratchet up interest especially among philosophers and david hume. smith is of interest to not just philosophers or economists as to intellectual historian to literary theorist, often these days. and we encourage the study of smith from all and no political...
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professor fleischacker, what is that society? >> guest: that was a society founded about that as a society founded about 15 years ago to encourage more scholarly interest in smith. one of our models was the hume society, which did help ratchet up interest especially among philosophers and david hume. smith is of interest to not just philosophers or economists as to intellectual historian to literary theorist, often these days. and we encourage the study of smith from all and no political perspective. but to say we try to stay away from the political uses of smith for ideological purposes and simply encourage scholarly work on what he had to say in all these various areas. and we have compensated basically at least once a year and also try to encourage scholarly work and various other forms. 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
professor fleischacker, what is that society? >> guest: that was a society founded about that as a society founded about 15 years ago to encourage more scholarly interest in smith. one of our models was the hume society, which did help ratchet up interest especially among philosophers and david hume. smith is of interest to not just philosophers or economists as to intellectual historian to literary theorist, often these days. and we encourage the study of smith from all and no political...
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. >> host: samuel fleischacker, this tweet given that i want you to respond to. in your view, what would smith think of the great society, affirmative action, welfare? >> guest: that would take a very long time to answer. >> host: you have 13 seconds. >> guest: i've written two books on it. the short answer is those are all issues that were not remotely on the table at the moment he died at some of them were on the table within ten years after he died. that was a huge debate about poor law, with the government who should aid the poor which he didn't get to participate in because he died a little too early. my own view is that among the things that our government could do and should do if they could do a while was help the poor reaches condition in which they could participate on the same level as everybody else in the market. in my view would be that he would support something like universal health care today for instance although their many scythians who would disagree with me. >> guest: you're crazy, sam. >> guest: he can be read in both ways i think because he
. >> host: samuel fleischacker, this tweet given that i want you to respond to. in your view, what would smith think of the great society, affirmative action, welfare? >> guest: that would take a very long time to answer. >> host: you have 13 seconds. >> guest: i've written two books on it. the short answer is those are all issues that were not remotely on the table at the moment he died at some of them were on the table within ten years after he died. that was a huge...
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c-span hosts samuel fleischacke and russell roberts. then wednesday, a look at the global economy today .... >> talks about his efforts at transfer his waste generating commercial carpet company into one with no environmental footprint by the year 2020. barnes & noble booksellers in atlanta is the host of this event. it is about 45 minutes. >> a lot of interface people here will pack the audience. thank you all for being here. just did brief introduction. in 1994, 15 years ago, i challenged the tiny task force of interface people, 16 or 17 people, to lead our company to sustainability. which we defined as operating our petroleum intensive company in such a way as to take from the earth nothing, not naturally and rapidly renewable by the earth, and to do no harm to the biosphere. take nothing, do no harm. in other words, zero footprint. we eventually chose 2020 for the target year to reach zero footprint. here we are 15 years into that journey of a 26 year long journey, to 2020, and we are better than 60 percent of the way. up that high
c-span hosts samuel fleischacke and russell roberts. then wednesday, a look at the global economy today .... >> talks about his efforts at transfer his waste generating commercial carpet company into one with no environmental footprint by the year 2020. barnes & noble booksellers in atlanta is the host of this event. it is about 45 minutes. >> a lot of interface people here will pack the audience. thank you all for being here. just did brief introduction. in 1994, 15 years ago,...