professor mccloskey, i have two questions i hope. i hope they are quick. what are your feelings about state owned banks and what they have in south dakota where the capital for lack of better term stays in the stat state and gets re-distributed to different projects, infrastructure projects. >> what is your second question, scott? >> in terms of socialism, socialism is government control production. i just can't see how supply p ad demand can work and our medical system. so socializing the insurance which pays for it, medicarece fr all as an example, seems to me a decentnt idea. in need of a drug to save the lives they will pay anything for it. >> before we get an answer from doctor mccloskey. >> scott hung up i was going to ask him who jeremy was. >> i can tell you who he is, he's a founder of authoritarianism, the idea that became an import idea and economics that is maximizing utility as he called it that drives people. i think it was wrong in the young friend also thought it was wrong. jeremy died around 1930 as to a state owned bank, i think it's a te

. >> 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

works. >> host: deirdre mccloskey, in your most recent book, "why

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

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

afterwards with senatemajority leader mitch mcconnell from 2017 and later , we rely with author mccloskey who will answer your questions about capitalism and socialism. check your program guides for more information. >> now it is my pleasure to introduce harvey solomon, a freelance writer based in washington dc and the author of three nonfiction books including book of days, the 60s, a day by day look at the pop-culture movements that made history. he has written articles for dozens of publications including the boston herald, los angeles times, and variety. today's book on the detention and repatriation of more than 1000 german japanese and hungarian diplomats, staffers and service journalists and spies. this follows those whose privileged world came crashing down after 1941, a squat cackling ambassador and his charming but conflicted wife, a wily veteran japanese journalist, beleaguered american wife of a japanese by posing as a diplomat and a spirited but nacve college age daughter of a german military at cachet. harvey solomon re-creates this period of detention, public outrage, hidde

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

starting at noon eastern on in-depth, a left conversation with deirdre mccloskey. most recent book " why liberalism works." conversationive with your phone calls, tweets, and facebook messages. , andreaeastern bernstein chronicles the trump and kushner families in her book " american oligarchs." >> the president as a businessman was good at fending off criminal investigations. he made sure he understood who his friends were and they understood who he was. he was able to make it work for him. he was never charged in any criminal case. it is interesting to have that background in the rearview mirror as we go into the impeachment situation where he is being called to account and there is a public reckoning. president hee is is not able to make things go away as he once could. announcer: watch featured authors this weekend and every weekend on book tv on c-span2. on june 8, 1972, an associated press photographer snapped an image of nine-year-old kinfolk who was who was-- kim phuc injured in a napalm attack. she is now the goodwill ambassador for the u.n. composer,ton a

mccloskey, watching him at the second impeachment of 35 not guilty which means it for the second articleas been mr perdue, not guilty. mr peters, three. mr purk portman, not guilty. mr reid, number three. three. mr purk portman, not guilty. mr reid, numberthree. mr three. mr purk portman, not guilty. mr reid, number three. mr risch, three. mr purk portman, not guilty. mr reid, numberthree. mr risch, not guilty. mr roberts, not guilty, mr romney, negative. ms. resin, guilty, mr brown's, negative. mr rubio, negative. mr sanders, napa three. mr south, not guilty. the shots, guilty. mr schumer, three. mr scott florida, not guilty. mr scott of south carolina, negative. mr shaheen, three. mr shelby, three. three. ms. smith, three. ms. spano, number three. mr sullivan, not guilty. mr tester, three. number three. mr sullivan, not guilty. mrtester, three. mrsoon, not guilty. mr telus, guilty. mrtester, three. mrsoon, not guilty. mrtelus, not guilty. mrtester, three. mrsoon, not guilty. mr telus, not guilty. guilty. mrtester, three. mrsoon, not guilty. mrtelus, not guilty. mr toomey, 19. not guilt

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

and especially in depth that allows us to get into the weeds with great minds such as professor mccloskey. i did mynd undergraduates in economics and political science in 1961. more recently in 2008 i did a doctor ofec ministry at the divinity school. so welcome to the fold of the chosen frozen as we call it. it's be too i love it. >> caller: i have two points of economics i would love to discuss further with you. i grew up in chicago so shouldn't be hard for me to it catch you at your office where one day. but to continue it and be brief in respect to the other listeners, first of all, the idea of capital and capitalism, i agree is an unfortunate misnomer in many cases because economics really is made up of capital and labor. and that's all it is. the only discussion is who controls the capital and the labor. >> host: will bear going to leave it there because you've already got professor shaking her head. capital and labor. >> caller: i agreed for decades with what you're saying and indeed it's the basis of the socialist movement since eight teen 48 to say labor is naked, so why don't th

. >> this weekend mccloskey is on "in depth" to discuss already books canallism and socialism. journallest andrea burnstein chronicles trump and kushner families. and how to dress america residents political divide. and a lookback at the from and mother who group up in poverty in kentucky's appalachian mountains region. fine more information on the program guide or online at booktv.org. >> outside of richmond, virginia, jerome corsi described his interactions with the fbi during the muller investigation. >> i went that monday into new york and i gave an interview with one american news and i announced to the world i was rejecting muellers plea. hadn't even called my lawyers. my lawyers would have told me not. to this is a good deal. won't go to prison. i said on television, let

and benjamin mccloskey had helped us with looking at a list of sites that might be possible for this.here's not a lot of completions that would allow the same sort of package that we experienced with the bond and road projects that we chose for the last public perception survey. still there's a couple of ways to approach surveying in this area. i think it could get at what you're asking. director natoli has been thinking about this a little bit. so we agreed to kind of hold that thought over for at least one meeting, with the idea of trying to develop a public survey approach, focused on housing. that was your interest as a committee. >> great. the last thing i'd say, i do have a friend who was able to obtain her home through the slip program and very appreciative of that program. it's worked very well for her. >> is the slip program part of pass? >> no. enter the milestones. part of the bond program. >> i do have a couple of questions. for 2015. are you the right person to talk to? i think we're going to come up with a standard template for this report. i have never seen one that was

>> this weekend mccloskey is on "in depth" to discuss already books canallism and socialism. journallest andrea burnstein chronicles trump and kushner families. and how to dress america residents political divide. and a lookback at the from and mother who group up in poverty in kentucky's appalachian mountains region. fine more information on the program guide or online at booktv.org. >> outside of richmond, virginia, jerome corsi described his interactions with the fbi during the muller investigation. >> i went that monday into new york and i gave an interview with one american news and i announced to the world i was rejecting muellers plea. hadn't even called my lawyers. my lawyers would have told me not. to this is a good deal. won't go to prison. i said on television, let mueller -- is this where justice in america has come down to, then put me in prison the rest of my life. do it. but i'm not going lie before god. i won't do it to save my hide or anything else. my purpose here is not earthly. [applause] >> the higher standard we'll be judged by. and i said i'm not doing