our first professors tonight are eby mccloskey and don boudreau. you are here to tell students what they should learn about economics. you can't do it all. >> first thing they should learn intentions are not results. judge policies by their results and not by the state intentions. people in the public sector are just as self did interested and no more enlightened than the people in the private sector. >> nice or vicious as everybody else. they are doing the public good. they are different. >> that's what they say. >> some other ideas that are taught. higher taxes can encourage work. carl smith, who teaches economics at the university of north carolina, fine school, says taxes make me poorer when people are poorer, they need to work more to pay for the things they want. therefore, taxes should make me work harder. >> when you tax something, you get less of it. if you take work you get less of it. the same for investments and business. this is why in countries with high taxes, like the united states, you see slow growth and slow job creation. >> you