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Carey is considered one of the most influential contributors to American political thought in the last half-century. On the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C., where he is Professor of Government, Carey shares his concerns about such subjects as the foundations of political order, the origins and intent of the American republic, and the ultimate crisis of "derailment" befalling the republic. Interviewer Bruce Frohnen describes Carey as "one of the preeminent interpreters of the nature and history of the American experiment in ordered liberty and self-government". In this DVD, Carey engages viewers as he shares insights and opinions on modern American political thought. Approximate running time: 76 minutes.

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Each of the seven DVDs in this series, represents one of a series of seven lectures sponsored in 1999 by Liberty Fund and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Friedrich von Hayek's birth. Approximate running time: 86 minutes.

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Each of the seven DVDs in this series, represents one of a series of seven lectures sponsored in 1999 by Liberty Fund and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Friedrich von Hayek's birth. Approximate running time: 79 minutes.

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Few individuals did more to both extend our understanding of the economic processes of the free society and alert us to the dangers inherent in the growth of political power than the Nobel laureate economist and social theorist Friedrich A Hayek. In over half a century of writing and teaching, he showed why National Socialism was the very antithesis of capitalism, why communism was an economic and political philosophy ultimately doomed to failure, and why we must be wary of government intervention if we are to preserve the freedoms that make democracy and prosperity possible. In a life that spanned almost the entire 20th century, Hayak went from being dismissed, ridiculed and ignored, to being acclaimed as perhaps the century's most significant social scientist and philosopher.

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As economic advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sir Alan Walters was an important figure in the transformation of economic policy and the resulting unprecedented boom that took place in the UK during the 1980s. He has written influential articles on public sector pricing, economic statistics, and cost-benefit analysis, and he has taught at the University of Birmingham, the London School of Economics, and Johns Hopkins University. Approximate running time: 62 minutes.

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Richard Cornuelle has greatly impacted how we think about voluntary institutions in the United States. Through such works as 'Reclaiming the American Dream' and 'De-Managing America', and through his work with the Foundation for Economic Education and the Volker Fund, he has called important attention to the needs and possibilities of those organisations that exist to address social problems through non-governmental means. His latest work points to what he believes is a great liberating social transformation that is already underway. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

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Gary Becker was named the 1992 Nobel laureate in Economics for 'having extended the domain microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour'. He is the University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago and the Rose-Marie and Jack R Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

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One of our most distinguished contemporary cultural historians, Jacques Barzun reflects on his long academic career and the movement of ideas he helped to shape through his insightful writings on liberal education in America. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

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Manuel Ayau is the founder and former rector and teacher of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. In addition to being a successful businessman, he is a former chairman of the Guatemala Stock Exchange, was a member of the Guatemala House of Representatives, and served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society. It is conducted in English and Spanish. Approximate running time: 69 minutes

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Recognised as one of the most influential voices in the areas of market structure, the theory of the firm, law and economics, resource unemployment, and monetary theory and policy, Armen Alchian outlines the UCLA tradition of economics which he helped found, explores its many unanticipated consequences. Approximate running time: 64 minutes.

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These volumes span 65 years of Seldon's influential thought and elaborate on the genesis of almost all the public/private debates currently before the world. His arguments are as compelling and relevant today as they were over half a century ago. Each volume of this series has a contextual introduction and, except for Volume 3, an individual index. Volume 7 contains an index to the entire series. Volume 3 co-written with Fred G Pennance is an essential tool for anyone who wants a better understanding of political economics.

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This two-volume treatise is important for its wide range of insights about the nature of the human mind, the foundations of morals, and the relationship between morality and religion.

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