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"When democracy turns, as it often does, into a corrupt plutocracy, both national decadence and social revolution are being prepared." So wrote the Irish-born historian, W E H Lecky (1838-1903) in this devastating assault on mass democracy. Lecky spoke for the landed gentry and the upper middle classes of late Victorian England when he warned his countrymen that an unfettered democracy would destroy the balance of interests in the community and thereby undermine the Constitution. "A tendency to democracy," said Lecky, "does not mean a tendency to parliamentary government, or even a tendency toward greater liberty." Indeed, the type of democracy emerging in Britain seemed to be the rudiment of socialism.

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Born in 1915 and a graduate of Barnard and Columbia, Anna Schwartz has made profound contributions to statistics, economic history, monetary policy, and international monetary arrangements. The DVD contains Schwartz's reflections on a lifetime of firsthand experiences in economics and offers critical insights on the policies of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Approximate running time: 54 minutes.

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Henry Manne was one of the early proponents of the study of law and economics. He founded the Center for Law and Economics, now at George Mason University, and has directed scores of law and economics seminars attended by economists, judges, lawyers, educators and policy-makers. Mannes book "Wall Street in Transition" redefined the commonly held theory of the corporate firm and brought unprecedented criticism from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which later came to embrace some of his views. His book, "Insider Trading and the Stock Market" jolted the conventional wisdom of its day. His articles in Barron's and the Wall Street Journal sparked debate of government policy, and his remaining canon traces a true portrait in the quest for classical liberty. Approximate running time: 87 minutes.

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An early leader of the classical liberalism revival movement, Leonard Liggio is one of the most ardent defenders of the tenets of personal liberty in the world today. Liggio is Executive Vice President of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Distinguished Senior Scholar of the Institute for Humane Studies, and a research professor at George Mason University. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence in the Law School at Notre Dame, and he is past President of both the Mont Pelerin Society and the Philadelphia Society. Approximate running time: 95 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: 80 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: 84 minutes.

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Contrary to a prevalent belief, the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century dramatically improved the standard of living of the people. The 3 parts of this DVD attempt to show how this remarkable transformation came about. The Industrial revolution series focuses on England's transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries which initiated a process of economic growth and social and political change that some call the greatest economic discontinuity in history. The significance of the Industrial Revolution is explained by showing its causes and consequences. Approximate running time: 87 minutes.

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Paul McCracken's influence on how we think about economic policy has reached from the academy, to the popular press, to the highest reaches of government. He is the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1948. Approximate running time: 61 minutes.

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Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and a leader of the Chicago school of monetary economics, Milton Friedman has long been recognised as one our most important economic thinkers. A Senior Research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, he is also the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1946 to 1976.

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M Stanton Evans is the former editor of The Indianapolis News and founding director of the National Journalism Center in Washington DC. The Journalism Center is dedicated to teaching young journalists not only the technical skills of their trade, but a deep understanding of the issues they will be covering. Over 1300 young journalists have trained at the centre, and have gone on to jobs at all the major news channels, magazines, and newspapers across the country. Evans has been a columnist for the Los Angles Times Syndicate and a commentator for CBS radio-TV, NPR, and the Voice of America. He is the author of seven books. Approximate running time: 66 minutes.

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