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This DVD uses pictures and quotations from the Founding period of the US to discuss the idea of liberty as it was understood by the revolutionary generation and how the concern for the preservation of liberty culminated in the writing of the Constitution in 1787. How many students know how the US came to dissolution in the decade before the Constitution was signed? This DVD tells the turbulent story of America's trials and tribulations in the period between the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the Constitution. Visually, the film brings the story to life and introduces the viewer to what 18th century America looked like. There are shots of artefacts from the Liberty Bell to the clothing and money of the time. There are scenes of restored historical sites, and images from the great American painters of the age illustrate the patriots and the historical events they created. 'Interviews' with the founders themselves bring the rich history of the framing of the Constitution to life.

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Trained in both economics and law, Ljubo Sirc combines the perspective of a scholar with his firsthand observations of the dangers of the communist regimes. Since 1983, he has served as Director of the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies in London. He is the author of numerous books and articles in a variety of languages. His autobiography, 'Between Hitler and Tito' was published in 1989. Approximate running time: 66 minutes.

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The relationship of the individual and the state is the central theme of Anthony de Jasay's distinguished career. Here he discusses the concepts of power, politics, and freedom that led to such brilliant works as 'The State'. Approximate running time: 67 minutes.

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John Hospers is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Southern California and author of such important philosophical texts as 'Meaning and Truth in the Arts', 'Human Conduct', and 'An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis'. Approximate running time: 59 minutes.

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Considered a leading voice in criminology and political philosophy, Ernest van den Haag discusses his ongoing work in criminal law and criminology, and he explains how his great insights relate to his central belief in a free society. Approximate running time: 77 minutes.

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As leaders of the Institute of Economic Affairs, or IEA in London for many years, Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon pioneered the thoughtful application of free-market principles and greatly influenced public policy and economic thought throughout he world. Approximate running time: 59 minutes.

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Ralph McInerny is among the most noted Catholic philosophers and authors of our day. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1955, and since 1978 has been the Michael P Grace Professor of Medieval Studies. Alongside his academic work, he has authored the best-selling and internationally acclaimed Father Dowling Mysteries which were made into a series for public television. Approximate running time: 65 minutes.

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Harry Jaffa is a leading political philosopher and among the most influential scholars on Abraham Lincoln. His classic 'Crisis of the House Divided' is a study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates that closely examines Lincoln's defence of the principles of the American Founding and Union.

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Among the foremost scholars in the continuing development of the Austrian School of economic theory, Israel Kirzner discusses the working of a free society and illuminates the vital role of entrepreneurs in the economic process. Approxiamte running time: 61 minutes.

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Seven of the world's most eminent contemporary economists explore the rich legacy Friedrich von Hayek left to economics. These seven DVDs each represent one of a series of lectures sponsored in 1999 by Liberty Fund and the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Hayek's birth. Approximate running time: 720 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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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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Ronald Coase received the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. His articles 'The Probelem of Social Cost' and 'The Nature of the Firm' are among the most important and most often cited works in the whole of economic literature.

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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: 82 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: 61 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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Within eight years of the death of George Washington in 1799, the first major biography of 'the father of his country' was written by John Marshall and published in five volumes. This, the twentieth and final version of the abridgement, published in 1849, is the text reproduced in the new Liberty Fund edition of what Charles A Beard has praised as a 'great' and 'masterly' biography. The editors' foreword and notes, together with maps of major battle campaigns not included in the original edition, make this edition especially attractive for students.

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David Hume's great, enduring reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that, among his contemporaries, his history of England was a more successful work. The history covers almost 1800 years. Hume saw English history as an evolution from a government of will to a government of law. Advanced in Hume's masterly prose, this argument continues to make the "History" a valuable study for the modern reader. This Liberty Fund edition is based on the edition of 1778, the last to contain corrections by Hume. The typography has been modernized for ease of reading. Hume's own index to the entire work may be found at the conclusion of volume VI.

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The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay constitutes a text central to the American political tradition. Written and published in newspapers in 1787 and 1788 to explain and promote ratification of the proposed Constitution for the United States, which were then bound by the Articles of Confederation, The Federalist remains of singular importance to students of liberty around the world. The Liberty Fund edition of Federalist includes a new introduction notes to The Federalist, a glossary, and the entirety of the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution. Adjoining the text of the Constitution are cross-references linking provisions of the Constitution to the pertinent passages in The Federalist that address the specific term, phrase, section, or article within the Constitution.

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Forrest McDonald is considered one of the most original and influential historians writing on the American Founding period. With interviewer Bill Jersey, McDonald shares reflections on his life and examines his intellectual formation in Texas in the 1950s, which led him to write "We The People: Economic Origins of the Constitution". When published, his landmark book challenged the long-standing theory proposed by Charles A Beard. He also exposes the drama of the American cultural turbulence of the 1960s through his experiences at Brown University and Wayne State University. McDonald discloses the motivations and theories behind several of his most celebrated books, including Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution and E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790, which is published by Liberty Fund. In this DVD Forrest McDonald discusses his radical reinterpretations of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, among other founding figures. From his home in Alabama, he speaks about his sense of the nature of the American Republic, the role of the Presidency, the status of the Bill of Rights, the interaction between economics and history, and the effect his reading of history has had on the field and his legacy. Approximate running time: 59 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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Raoul Berger was the foremost scholar of constitutional law to defend the doctrine of originalism in our day. His thought is set in the context of his long and rich life, from Russian emigre in Chicago to musician, to his masterful examinations of the legal underpinnings of a free society. From his earliest days as a young Russian emigre in Chicago, to his role as a leading scholar of constitutional law, Raoul Berger is presented in this new program that combines original footage of his life, his personal reflections, and commentary.

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This DVD shows how the economic transformation of Hong Kong from a modest trading centre to a modern industrial and free-trade economy (prior to China's annexation) came about through a reliance on the market and economic liberty rather than on central planning through governmental direction. Great Britain established the crown colony of Hong Kong in 1841, just 65 years after the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations'. It was designated a free port from the start, with no duties or protective tariffs for its residents. This DVD takes an in-depth look at the economy of Hong Kong in its final days as a British colony. We see how it was transformed into a modern industrial economy solely by reliance on he invisible hand of the market. Seeing Hong Kong as a laboratory experiment that confirms Adam Smith's theories, the DVD outlines a proven strategy for the development of emerging economies and a powerful argument for a capitalist economy bolstered by balanced budgets, low tax rates, and avoidance of government borrowing.

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One of the foremost historians of the Industrial Revolution discusses what really happened to the quality of life and standard of living for those who lived throughout the industrialised West. Approximate running time: 66 minutes.

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James Buchanan is a celebrated Nobel laureate economist, prolific author, and scholar of liberty. In Part 1 he discusses the theory of public choice, his exchange theory of economics, and constitutional thought. In Part 2, the conversation moves to such topics as the work ethic, the logic of free markets, subjectivism, anarchy, federalism, the influence of philosophy and the significance of the Nobel Prize. Approximate running time: 120 minutes

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One of the 20th century's leading thinkers on the relationship between free trade and the economics of developing countries, Lord Peter Thomas Bauer discusses his clear ideas on the effectiveness of government aid and intervention in the Third World. Approximate running time: 58 minutes.

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