[Rhodes22-list] Economics - TV Worth Watching

[elle]

Wally, Wally, Wally,

This is a classy joint. Please be more erudite in your
exclamations.

Perhaps one of the following will suffice:

Ed, Your vessel doth runneth over with poop.

Ed, You have more excrement spewing from you than
Tupperware makes containers to hold it.

Ed, ( Of Poo): A pint's a pound the world around,
except in SC where it expands exponentially to fill a
vacuum of thought.

(Only kidding, Ed....I think...)

elle 



--- TN Rhodey <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ed, You are full of shit!
> 
> 
> >From: Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Economics - TV Worth
> Watching
> >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:13:34 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> >Brother Bradley:
> >
> >      You do not expect Dave L or Bill E or Ron L
> or the other fellow
> >travelers to read and embrace this concept do you. 
> You are just pissing
> >into the wind.
> >
> >       The first problem you encounter is that they
> have television brains.
> >Just change the channel and instantly things will
> be fine.  Second, they do
> >not believe that democracy needs to be nurtured. 
> That goes back to their
> >television mentality where things will be instantly
> fine.  Third, they
> >believe that bureaucracies work, there is no place
> for free people and
> >individual responsibility.  Are you trying to
> create chaos or was that 
> >Peter
> >Drucker?
> >
> >Ed K
> >Greenville, SC, USA
> >Addendum:  "It is not by the consolidation of
> concentration of powers, but
> >by  their distribution, that good government is
> affected." Thomas Jefferson
> >
> >
> >Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > This is worthy of your time - check local
> listings.  Brad
> > >
> > > *TV's Evangelist for Capitalism
> > > *The man behind "Free to Choose" with Milton
> Friedman.
> > >
> > > *BY JOHN H. FUND*
> > > *Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:01 a.m.*
> > >
> > > Despite his renown as a Nobel Prize-winning
> economist and best-selling
> > > author, most people came to know the late Milton
> Friedman through
> > > television. His 10-part 1980 series, "Free to
> Choose," was so popular 
> >that
> > > it aired three times on public television and is
> even now adding fans 
> >via
> > > a
> > > free Internet video-stream (www.ideachannel.tv).
> > >
> > > So it's fitting that the original team of
> producers for "Free to Choose"
> > > returned to PBS Monday (declared "Milton
> Friedman Day" in California by
> > > Gov.
> > > Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Gavin Newsom of
> San Francisco) with a
> > > 90-minute intellectual biography called "The
> Power of Choice: The Life 
> >and
> > > Times of Milton Friedman." (Many public
> television stations are airing 
> >the
> > > program at other times this week; check local
> listings.)
> > >
> > > The show ranges far and wide to show the
> influence of Friedman's 
> >thought.
> > > Former Prime Minister Mart Laar of Estonia, a
> former Soviet satellite 
> >that
> > > turned to free markets in desperation after
> independence, says that "the
> > > only book about economy what I read was 'Free to
> Choose,' but there was 
> >a
> > > lot of good ideas in there, and I introduced a
> big part of those." Such
> > > Friedmanite reforms as a 23% flat-rate income
> tax (soon to fall to 20%)
> > > have
> > > led the latest "Index of Economic Freedom" to
> list Estonia as the 12th
> > > most
> > > free economy in the world, ahead of Denmark and
> the Netherlands. The 
> >show
> > > is
> > > chock-full of tributes from figures as diverse
> as Alan Greenspan and 
> >Gov.
> > > Schwarzenegger.
> > >
> > > As much as the show is a celebration of
> Friedman's life and work, it 
> >also
> > > showcases the remarkable entrepreneur who made
> it and "Free to Choose"
> > > possible. Bob Chitester produced the original
> series while serving as 
> >the
> > > only public-TV station manager in the country
> who didn't believe in
> > > government subsidies. A tireless promoter, he
> raised the equivalent of 
> >$8
> > > million today for the series--entirely from
> private sources, an
> > > achievement
> > > that delighted Friedman.
> > >
> > >  Mr. Chitester came to the project with an
> unusual background. In 1966, 
> >he
> > > became the general manager of the PBS station in
> Erie, Pa., at age 29. 
> >An
> > > opponent of the Vietnam War, he handed out
> literature for George 
> >McGovern
> > > in
> > > 1972 and admits he knew nothing about economics.
> Then, in 1976, he met
> > > with
> > > economist W. Allen Wallis, who gave him a copy
> of Friedman's "Capitalism
> > > and
> > > Freedom." Mr. Chitester soaked it up, became a
> believer in markets, and
> > > immediately began pursuing Friedman to do a
> series that would provide a
> > > counterpoint to one by liberal economist John
> Kenneth Galbraith that PBS
> > > was
> > > airing.
> > >
> > > After all these years, Mr. Chitester is still
> surprised by how easily
> > > Friedman's cooperation came. "I was a bearded,
> leather-jacketed,
> > > small-town
> > > TV executive, yet he treated me as competent and
> honorable, as he did
> > > everyone he met, until you proved otherwise," he
> recalls.
> > >
> > > Surprisingly, Friedman insisted on not writing a
> script in advance of
> > > filming. The points that would be made in each
> scene were discussed, but
> > > his
> > > commentary was extemporaneous. This resulted in
> such gems as the 
> >economist
> > > sitting in a sweatshop in New York's Chinatown,
> where he recalled the 
> >days
> > > when his mother worked in a similar environment.
> "Life was hard," 
> >Friedman
> > > noted, "but opportunity was real." He then
> transports the audience to a
> > > junk
> > > floating in the harbor of Hong Kong, "the freest
> market in the world,"
> > > where
> > > Friedman discusses how the then-British colony's
> leaders refused to
> > > collect
> > > some economic statistics because they feared
> they would be used as an
> > > excuse
> > > for government intervention in the booming
> economy.
> > >
> > > Since the success of "Free to Choose," Mr.
> Chitester has gone on to
> > > produce
> > > programs that range across time and space, from
> a dramatization of how 
> >the
> > > Pilgrims realized the importance of private
> property to a series on
> > > private
> > > space exploration. He has produced five teaching
> kits based on John
> > > Stossel's ABC News TV specials that have been
> used in 84,000 classrooms 
> >to
> > > encourage more rigorous thinking about science
> and economics.
> > >
> > > Today, Mr. Chitester is most excited about a
> two-hour program he is
> > > producing featuring Hernando de Soto. A Peruvian
> economist, Mr. de Soto
> > > has
> > > been the target of murder attempts by drug
> barons and Marxist terrorists
> > > who
> > > fear his message that the poor in developing
> nations need true
> > > capitalism--property rights, markets and the
> rule of law. Time magazine
> > > recently named him one of the five leading Latin
> American innovators of
> > > the
> > > century.
> > >
> > > Mr. de Soto warns that capitalism isn't working
> for the majority of the
> > > world's people. This is largely because economic
> elites use their power 
> >to
> > > restrict competition, limit access to capital
> and promote their vested
> > > interests over those less fortunate. That, in
> turn, undermines the
> > > potential
> > > of free markets to spread wealth and opportunity
> in the same way that 
> >has
> > > made developed nations so successful. "The poor
> are not the problem; 
> >they
> > > are the solution," Mr. de Soto says. "Give them
> access to land titles 
> >that
> > > can be used for collateral, the rule of law, a
> responsive bureaucracy 
> >and
> > > streamlined tools of business, and you will see
> creativity and
> > > entrepreneurial self-reliance flourish."
> > >
> > > The program being planned for Mr. de Soto will
> take him from an Albanian
> > > village, where ancient disputes over who owns
> what land are prompting
> > > young
> > > people to leave the country, to the office of a
> Tanzanian banker who has
> > > tried in vain for 12 years to get a mortgage.
> Increasingly, Mr. de Soto
> > > says
> > > Americans need to appreciate how much developing
> nations are dominated 
> >by
> > > an
> > > extralegal economy that must be brought into the
> mainstream. "What Bob 
> >is
> > > proposing is an eye-opening look at how to
> finally make poor countries
> > > wealthy by empowering their people," says Ed
> Crane, president of the 
> >Cato
> > > Institute.
> > >
> > > But TV's evangelist for capitalism has other
> projects, too. He has
> > > storyboards done for a series on Bjorn Lomborg,
> the Danish scientist who
> > > has
> > > gathered Nobel laureates together to agree on
> where money should be 
> >spent
> > > to
> > > safeguard human life. (Hint: global-warming
> curbs are far down the 
> >list.)
> > > A
> > > program on the life of former Secretary of State
> George Shultz is in the
> > > works.
> > >
> > >  This week's PBS special pays tribute to the
> many achievements of Milton
> > > Friedman. One that is often underappreciated is
> the extent to which he
> > > demonstrated how visual images could influence
> and shape public debate. 
> >As
> > > his most ardent electronic disciple, Bob
> Chitester deserves the
> > > free-market
> > > community's equivalent of an Oscar.
> > >
> > > *Mr. Fund is a columnist for
> OpinionJournal.com.*
> > >
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