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You, but i think those show of hands give you an idea of what youve accomplished. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you, ginger. [applause] thank you guys so much. Thank you guys so much. If we could just have a round of applause one more time for gyppinger and tom. [applause] and a round of applause for our tremendous, tremendous panelists. [applause] so they will be up here to talk to you, to sign books. The books are up there, obviously, and thank you for coming. Have a beautiful night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] and youre watching booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Well, this is the tenth anniversary of the landfall of hurricane katrina, and were going to bring you a series of authors and books discussing that tragedy. At a 5 p. M. Eastern time, roberta talks about the rebuilding of norld of new orleans. Then at 6 30, former governor of mississippi, highwayly haley bad his new book discusses his role during the storm. At 7 30 p. M. Eastern ronnie green reports on the shooting of unarmed shootingsing by police that happened in september of 2005. And finally at 8 45 p. M. , gary rivlin looks at katrinas immediate damaging and the lasting effects on new orleans infrastructure and on its people. That all happens tonight on booktv on cspan2. On saturday, september 5th, were live from our Nations Capital for the 15th annual National Book festival followed on sunday with our live in Depth Program with former second lady and senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute lynne cheney. Booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Host booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. Thanks for asking. As you know, i taught economics for the past 18 years, and i went to seminary before that, so i like reading a combination of economics and ethics, and on the stump speech people thought that was a humorous joke, but i actually take it seriously. So im starting after with peter wallison, hidden this plain sight, in plain sight. And if you dont have an account of the causes of the financial crisis, its kind of hard to solve that issue going forward. We dont want that happening again, and there are some signs that were heading in the wrong direction with a few of the economic variables, the debt to gdb and that kind of thing are off track and little hints in the Mortgage Business and the federal reserve, etc. , has some heavy lifting to do. So thats the main economic piece i want to read, and the rest of this kind of western synthesis between the judeochristian tradition and the greeks and the enlightenment reason, and i taught that for 18 years, so im reading whose justice, which rationality, by alistair mcintire, one of the mcintyre, one of the greatest philosophers in the country. Hayes, one of the foremost authorities on ethics of the new testament, on the moral vision contained within the new testament. And then ive got a book economics as religion from shellson to chicago, and ive been dabbling in several of these books for a long time, but i want to dig this deeper because i think theyre needed up here. Then the final one is a fun one, but its called bourgeois dignity, and that is by deirdre mccloskey, and shes quite a renaissance scholar herself. She has been combining economics and ethics and literature for the past few decades. Shes a chicago schooltrained economist, but shes been validated by a bunch of nobel prize winners. Shes got a sixvolume set in the works. I just referred you to the second volume, and it kind of takes on the causes of long run Economic Growth. And most people arent familiar with this, but its the issue thats improved Human Welfare more than any other issue that you can name period. I think i say that with pretty good confidence. But her argument is, you know, all human civilization income per person is about 500 a year per person for all Human History up til about 1800. Then at 1800 you get a hockey stick, and you get massive, explosive growth in the free market countries. So theres been a lot of speculation on whats the true cause of that. I did my ph. D. S on that, and she takes on every single one of the nobel papers. Its not science, its not r d, its not private property rights, its not the industrial revolution, and she dates every single one of these variables. And she concludes that the ultimate cause, the biggest cause of long run Economic Growth is this, first time in history, 1800 when our culture changed the moral language such that we started to call the business person morally good. And thats a whopper these days. In k12 education were kind of neutral at best on that proposition. What do we say about business, is it morally good, are they corrupt . In higher ed im afraid to say answer too often is business is morally bad. A lot of history had that feeling or belief and if that is your proposition, dont expect a lot of growth. And so i think we need to do a little work at examining that and getting back on track and saying, hey, how do we make business morally good and acing attention to that proposition. Kids in the inner cities right now, lower income folks, their only hope is to enter the free market economy with a well paying job. And so if were teaching the next generation that business is morally bad, why would a kid want to sign up for that proposition . Its not attractive. And so this book is hugely important. Shell refer you to about a thousand other authors in that sixvolume set. Her first book is similar and dealt mainly with the history of virtues kind of from plato on. And so thats my reading list. Kind of Light Reading for this summer on the beach, and so i look forward to the stack. 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