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Is Wal-Mart Good or Bad for America? A Debate
Recorded: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
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Wal-Mart’s detractors argue that Wal-Mart reduces living standards, hurts retail trade, disrupts communities, and relies on government programs to provide healthcare for many of its workers. Is Wal-Mart a force for good or evil?
Experts: Ken Jacobs, Richard K. Vedder
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Business, Labor and Employment, Regulation and Deregulation
P.J. O’Rourke “On the Wealth of Nations”
Recorded: Friday, February 9, 2007
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America’s most provocative humorist, P. J. O’Rourke, has read pioneering economist Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, “so we don’t have to”—and the results are as entertaining as they are enlightening.
Experts: P. J. O’Rourke
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Economic Policy, Economists
The 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Awards and An Evening With Robert Higgs
Recorded: Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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The reception and presentation of the Thomas S. Szasz Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties to Robert Higgs and Robert Spillane, followed by a special forum featuring Dr. Higgs on “Liberty and Leviathan.”
Experts: Robert Higgs, Robert Spillane, Thomas S. Szasz
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Government Power, Terrorism and National Crises
Private Solutions for Reducing Road Congestion, Fuel Costs, Travel Time, and Waste
Recorded: Thursday, September 28, 2006
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“Congestion is not a fact of life,” declared Mr. Mineta, “We need a new approach, and we need it now.” Such an approach is presented in the new Independent Institute book, Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Roads.
Experts: Daniel B. Klein, Gabriel Roth, Alexander Tabarrok
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Privatization, Transportation
Bureaucracy vs. The Environment: What Should Be Done?
Recorded: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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Environmental quality has been a major public concern since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental regulations enacted since has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success.
Experts: Carl P. Close, Michael Shaw, Randy T. Simmons
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Environment
