Im reihan salam. Im president of the Manhattan Institute. And i wanted to start the evening by explaining exactly why this prize is so important to us. The hayek prize is a celebration of Friedrich Hayek, one of the most consequential thinkers of the modern era, a celebrated who was awarded the nobel prize in 1974. Hayek did more than just make intellectual breakthroughs. He inspired a generation of economic reformers who helped liberate countless millions from poverty around the world. And his message remains vitally important as we look to the future. In his 1944 book, the road to serfdom, hayek drew a connection between economic and freedom more generally, arguing that government control of economic Decision Making paved the way to further encroachments on individual rights and the use of knowledge in society. A groundbreaking article published in 1945, he carefully and methodically dismantled the logic behind economic collectivism at a time when the worlds intellectual elite was co
Im reihan salam. Im president of the Manhattan Institute. And i wanted to start the evening by explaining exactly why this prize is so important to us. The hayek prize is a celebration of Friedrich Hayek, one of the most consequential thinkers of the modern era, a celebrated who was awarded the nobel prize in 1974. Hayek did more than just make intellectual breakthroughs. He inspired a generation of economic reformers who helped liberate countless millions from poverty around the world. And his message remains vitally important as we look to the future. In his 1944 book, the road to serfdom, hayek drew a connection between economic and freedom more generally, arguing that government control of economic Decision Making paved the way to further encroachments on individual rights and the use of knowledge in society. A groundbreaking article published in 1945, he carefully and methodically dismantled the logic behind economic collectivism at a time when the worlds intellectual elite was co
Im president of the Manhattan Institute. And i wanted to start the evening by explaining exactly why this prize is so important to us. The hayek prize is a celebration of Friedrich Hayek, one of the most consequential thinkers of the modern era, a celebrated who was awarded the nobel prize in 1974. Hayek did more than just make intellectual breakthroughs. He inspired a generation of economic reformers who helped liberate countless millions from poverty around the world. And his message remains vitally important as we look to the future. In his 1944 book, the road to serfdom, hayek drew a connection between economic and freedom more generally, arguing that government control of economic Decision Making paved the way to further encroachments on individual rights and the use of knowledge in society. A groundbreaking article published in 1945, he carefully and methodically dismantled the logic behind economic collectivism at a time when the worlds intellectual elite was convinced that stat
Evening especially would have meant a great deal to him. Unfortunately, hes a bit under the weather, is so he sent me in his stead. Im humbled and honored to make the introduction. Its been said that theres the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. The book whose 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight, making it, is an important story any way you look at it. [laughter] and tonight were going to tell the story behind the story. In his book, norman says that all writers who become famous go through ups and downs. These fluctuations, he says, reveal less about the writers actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the times. Heres how he put it in his own words 50 years ago. Every morning a stock Market Report comes out on reputations in new york. It is invisible, but those who have eyes to see can read it. Did so and so have dinner at Jackie Kennedys apartment last night . Up five points. Was so and so not invited to meet the lates
Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. Host tell us about ricardo. Guest you have to write this book because nobody knows him. If that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the Cuban Foreign minister, cute and United Nations representative in new york at the cuban head of Natural Assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. He has been a public human figure, he knows more secrets, has bee