mr. larson. the question of how we score legislation is technical and complicated. we have established practices that are meant to be as accurate as possible. and the risk that is known to be the most accurate and there is the shared concern to not paul whole and our budget to be wrong so asking if there is dynamic scoring with tax policy but if one goes further to make assumptions that drives the numbers in a way that turned out not to be correct we will be corrected it to after the bills are added up. at a lot there to be any misunderstanding. we have always been open into alternative measures with the upside and the downside risk but to use those to make decisions that have consequences are different. >> he also makes the point on several different occasions and we have to make sure we're willing to apply that and maybe it is a very sound practice i am not an economist but what do we apply it to and the kkk and be applied equally in the last couple of weeks have spend painful with green bay but i to -- i didn't take it personal. [laughter] have this picture to pr

mr. larson has appeared on booktv on several occasions. if you'd like to see some of his other appearances, you can go to booktv.org, type in his name in the search function and you can watch it directly from our video library. now, the savannah book fest is taking a lunch break at this point, and our live coverage will continue again in about 45 minutes with dr. sandeep jauhar, "doctored: the disillusionment of an american physician." live coverage from savannah continues in about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> you're watching book tv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booking tv television for serious readers. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors every weekend -- nonfiction books and authors every weekend. we're on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are also authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. what do you do here at the university? >> i'm a professor of sociology in the school of arts and sciences. >>

mr. steve is the clerk i'm to thank jessie larson and charles i'd like to now let's see i'd like to call roll mr. clerk and roll call. >> supervisor chinning son and supervisor president tang and supervisor wiener we have quorum. >> thank you very much now i'd like to misconduct i instruct the clerk to call the consent calendar. >> consent calendar items it through 4 considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by one resolution in the form or forms listed below. the staff is presented if they want to and will be considered separately. >> thank you very much seeing no conversation from colleagues let's opening it up for public comment at this point seeing none, public comment is closed let's take a roll call vote on those mr. star items. >> on see consent calendar supervisor christen. >> i vote to approve. >> supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor president tang supervisor wiener this item passes. >> great you thank you very much item 5 and recommending increasing or increasing the mark thompson company to a total amount not to exceed for a planning engineering servic

mr. larson has appeared on booktv on several occasions. if you'd like to see some of his other appearances, you can go to booktv.org, type in his name in the search function and you can watch it directly from our video library. now, the savannah book fest is taking a lunch break at this point, and our live coverage will continue again in about 45 minutes with dr. sandeep jauhar, "doctored: the disillusionment of an american physician." live coverage from savannah continues in about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> you're watching book tv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booking tv television for serious readers. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors every weekend -- nonfiction books and authors every weekend. we're on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are also authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. what do you do here at the university? >> i'm a professor of sociology in the school of arts and sciences. >>

edward larson is the author of nine books and 100 published articles. in his recent book "the return of george washington," mr. larsen recovers a critically important yet almost always overlooked chapter of george washington's life were revealing how washington saved the united states by coming out of retirement to lead the constitutional convention and serve as our first president. he teaches lectures and writes about issues of law politics, science, medicine from a historical perspective. he received the 1998 pulitzer prize in history for his book summer for the gods. the scopes trial and america's continuing debate on science and religion. his articles have appeared in american history nature, atlantic monthly, scientific american isis, the nation, the wall street journal, most importantly the georgia review and over a dozen different law reviews. please welcome edward larson. [applause] >> first of all i want to thank you for having me here. savannah is one of my favorite places and being here on valentine's day, how better could be? we are having a wonderful time. the organizers have been fabulous how th