[inaudible conversation] good afternoon and welcome everybody to the Cato Institute. I direct the center for global liberty and prosperity here at cato. The title and the style of the book were featuring today, socialism sucks, is admittedly more irrev van the typical more staid pock policy book wed Public Policy books we organize evented around but i assure you the authors today are serious, accomplished economists to decade of scholarly work inform the publication. The subtitlele of the book, who economists drink the way through the enfree world, give us flavor of the unconventional purchase for a couple of academics. That subtitlelesurprise me. I ten to run into ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country and around the world, and inevitably they have drinks in their hand probably because we chat at conventions and receptions and hotel bars and i the like. The conversation is always interesting, informative and fun and thats true of this new book
Trip to the border before heading back to washington where his plan to address the border crisis is far from a sure thing. For president barack obama and Texas Governor rick perry, the showdown was more of a sitdown. Different ends of a roundtable discussion in dallas on the crisis at the border. Just had a good meeting with governor perry. Reporter president later told reporters his beef is not with perry, its with congress, who has a 4 billion request to deal with the emergency. Are our folks more interested in solving of problem or more interested in politics . If they are interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved. Reporter perry was Less Charitable releasing a statement calling for the National Guard and more drones on the border, adding the crisis has been created by bad Public Policy, in particular the failure to secure the border. Back in washington, critics from both parties slammed the president s decision to attend fundraisers in texas. Hes visiting democrati
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Little known outside his field, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a highly influential and often controversial figure in the history of computer science. Krzysztof Apt writes a tribute to his colleague, a pioneer and a genius whose work shaped the field like few others.