Raoul Berger, an expert in constitutional law, talks about his earliest days as a young Russian émigré in Chicago, his first career in music, and his later fascination with the legal underpinnings of a free society. Watch the video on our YouTube channel.
Manuel Ayau is the founder and former rector and teacher of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin. Begun as an alternative to the prevailing statist views of higher education in Guatemala, Francisco Marroquin is now regarded as that country’s finest university. In addition to being a successful businessman, Ayau is a former Chairman of the Guatemala Stock Exchange, was a member of the Guatemala House of Representatives, and served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society. After meeting him in 1979, Ronald Reagan described Ayau as “one of the few people in the high political sphere who understands what is going on down there.”
One of the twentieth century’s leading thinkers on the relationship between free trade and the economics of developing countries, Lord Peter Thomas Bauer discusses his clear ideas on the effectiveness of government aid and intervention in the Third World.
F. A. Hayek was one of the most important free market economists of the 20th century, winning the Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 1974. He was a member of the Austrian school of economics, taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, wrote extensively on banking and monetary theory, the socialist calculation debate, and the theory of spontaneous orders. Watch the video and explore related resources at Econlib Videos.
Fred McChesney, the James B. Haddad Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, interviews Henry Manne who founded the Center for Law and Economics, now at George Mason University, and has directed scores of law and economics seminars attended by economists, judges, lawyers, educators, and policy makers.
Cornuelle talks about the vital role voluntary institutions have played in American society and how they might be further encouraged to solve social problems without resorting to the state.
As leaders of the Institute of Economic Affairs, or IEA, in London for many years, Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon pioneered the thoughtful application of free-market principles and greatly influenced public policy and economic thought throughout the world.
Hospers talks about his interests in moral philosophy, aesthetics, the nature of liberty, and his activity as the first Libertarian Party candidate for President in 1972.
John Blundell, Director of the British Institute for Economic Affairs, interviews the historian Leonard Liggio. An early leader of the classical liberalism revival movement, Leonard Liggio is one of the most ardent defenders of the tenets of personal liberty in the world today. Liggio is the Executive Vice-President of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a Distinguished Senior Scholar of the Institute for Humane Studies, and a research professor at George Mason University.
Jaffa talks about his work on American constitutional theory and history including the nature of the American Republic and the impact of Abraham Lincoln on constitutional matters.
