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1877 to 1929. He explains how and why the United States shifted from generating most of its revenue from regressive consumption tax toss a more direct and progressive tax on North Carolina with the passage of the 16th amendment. The National Archives Center Hosted this event in december 2014. Into. Netanyahu for attending Todays Researcher talk, itch richard mccauley, we host this noontime series. Todays talk is the last in 2014, a year when weve been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang by hosting to...

[inaudible conversations] i think well get started. I want to thank julia before i introduce her for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome to the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the center for capitalism studies. For a couple years if taught a course another Eugene Lang College on understanding global capitalism, and the first day we would come in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person to their left and tell us what country that shirt was made in. So that whats first thing we did in understanding global capitalism and we would write the names of t...

It is a pleasure to be back here in this room where i might mention that 17 years ago in january 1997, a charity meeting that was open who is today president of the American University in cairo. A meeting where we had a dialogue with the first individuals who came to the United States from the taliban, it came to new york about three or four months after they kept taking control to ask the United Nations to give them afghanistans u. N. Seat. Of course not really about was not in the power of the u. N. Secretary general. I make mention of the people who were there, the delegation was led by, a ...

And now on booktv, Peter Andreas talks about the long history of smuggling in the u. S. Which, prior to the revolutionary war, was driven by a desire to grow Domestic Industries and bypass paying import taxes to the british. Its about an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone, to the Watson Institute for International Studies for the discussion of Peter Andreas new book, smuggler nation. Housekeeping, i have to mention some things. The way were going to run this is as follows, peter is going to get up and talk briefly about the book because, obviously, if he doesnt say anything,...

After that we will open up for q a. You will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. If you wish to join q a, get up and stand behind the microphone. We have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording cspan and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without further ado, ill begin my brief introduction. So heres the book. There we go. For those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. Peter tends to write short books. You think to yourself, this is serious. Im not g...