lionel robbins brought hayek, another. how did hayek do it? according to bruce caldwell, hayek drew a distinction between two types of opinions, constitutionive and speculative. constitutiontive cause a social anally to occur. speculative are those that people find in order to explain. this was a purely artificial distinction. because speculative ideas can influence the phenomenon just as easy. but it allows hayek to ignore. lionel robbins found another basis for eliminating which was more informational. robbins defined the matter of economics as the allocation of limited resources among alternative uses. he argued that studying the conditions of supply and demand themselves was outside the scope of economics and therefore supply and demand should be taken as independently given. the section of the two, then determines the equilibrium price. but this method, robbins managed to eliminate the effects that the mispricing of financial essence can have on both the demand and supply curves in other words, it could eliminate the complextivety. the me

like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexican play music.here is a lot of beauty in that, but it was not for me. i was born without arms around my heart that wants to embrace everything. palestine's, israelis. japanese, apaches. i am more concentrated with life and love than flags, nationality, religion. that stuff gets in the way. one gets in the way is me, myself, my story. for me, that is why music is liberating. when you hear "imagine" anywhere in the world, people sang the lyrics. as soon as you hear the melody -- same thing with a bob marley song. i grew up taking everything from bob dylan, curtis mayfield, the beatles, smokey robinson. mike alma mater was the streets of san francisco. i would dare to go to school. where i really hung out was at the fillmore. that was my university, checking out be the king, and james brown, a cream. finding out how they were able to penetrate people's hearts. with their music. once you do that, something happens to their eyes. they become brighter. they start crying, they do not know why. they start d

. >> we are talking with james robbins about his latest book this time we win. tell us about it. >> it is about the tet offensive in the vietnam war which was an outstanding victory for u.s. forces but was reported as a defeat and has gone down in history as a defeat. the purpose of the book is to clear that up. >> how do you go about that? >> going back to some original documents and declassified things talking to people who were involved in reviewing the case that it was a defeat and show how some of the points made about it are wrong. >> did you explain how cbs at the time and over history have gone wrong? >> yes. the whole front of the book is about power in contemporary wars like iraq and afghanistan people use the tet offensive and that analogy but use it incorrectly. i start from contemporary sources and go back and retracing. >> can you list a specific thing that was your inspiration? >> other than my publisher wanted it? i have been studying insurgency and counterinsurgency for 30 years and it is one of the most important aspect. i have known people who

don't ever go to baskin robbins with the third eagle of the apocalypse.f the co-prophet will no doubt already know that it's not just the penguin and the horse that are the problem but the denver international airport's entire outdoor baggage handling area. >> the outdoor baggage handling area is in the shape of a phallis. let's take a closer look. >> and that is exactly what he does in his new sri. mr. taply has taken his phallis or philosophy into a whole new level. not just the phallis shaped terminal that concerns him but also surrounding street names. >> what do you suppose this street name is that runs right down the center? you guessed it. that's pena boulevard. >> sorry. all right. actually i did not guess that. i was hoping for urethra boulevard. pena is named for fedrico pena, the former mayor of denver. but anyway, that's just one street. not like there's others. >> i guess you could call this the pubic hair area. what do you suppose the name of this street is right here? this is the hairy b. combes parkway. >> harry b. combes was an aviator an

and that was sort of in the heydey of the paperback era, and, you know, we had authors like harold robbins, and we had, you know, sort of the great brands of the time. and it was a, it was an interesting time for books because the industry was transitioning from a sort of a two-world system. there was hard cover publishing, and there was paperback publishing. and in that era they began to merge, so a lot of the books that were getting published in hard cover were actually being published by paperback publishers. and paper -- and hard cover publishers at the same time were realizing that they had to get into the paperback business. [audio difficulty] confusing but interesting transition going on. with us at simon & schuster, people like bob woodward were superstar authors. we had mary higgins clark who was succeeding in both paperback and hard cover. we had jackie collins who was a superstar at the time. we had, you know, i sort of inherited a legacy of simon & schuster authors then that by applying mass market techniques we were able to take to new levels. shortly after i started, i became

with tim robbins, it is rated pg- 13. >> jim carey unique new movie is with penguins, and plays a charactered mr. popper. >> hello? >> i have to send the penguin back. >> yes. in >> the arrival marks a new chapter in his life. changing his life. >> mr. popper's penguins is rated pg. for " now showing " i'm paul chambers. >> also more of movie reviews from the jan wahl. what does she think about green lantern? coming up, pre-mortgage helping back omass of people and if you would like to hav to take part? a live look. outside, we will be right back. the bay area -- a place with natural beauty and a forward thinking spirit. at bank of america, we've been fueling economic growth here for over a century. today we're investing in innovations that will define our future. every day, we're working to help set opportunity in motion. from financing a solar project for the milpitas school district to funding the institute at golden gate. because when you're giving, lending, and investing in more communities across the country, more opportunities happen. live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kr

that is tony robbins. 80's saw huge growth in the self-help industry and when we think about the self help industry as it is focus on the self. and what did this look like today in our politics? the deification of the individual? i think in our politics it started with a lot of the things that came out of ronald reagan's administration. one of the key things and one example, the idea of the unitary executive. that comes right out of ronald reagan. he said anything we do is in our national interest. that is a direct quote from our reagan. that happened just a couple of years after the nation looked with concern when richard nixon said whatever the president does is legal. just a couple of years later ronald reagan was famous to great fanfare and in our presidential politics this metastasizes into stuff like this. you get george bush now and nobody blanks and i or not enough people blink an eye when he says things like this. god wants me to be president or when he says i'm the commander. somebody needs to ex