Who Designed Healthcare This Way? Big Ideas Live! Recap with Sloane Frost
Have you ever come up against something that seems ridiculous in the health care system and wondered what kind of oversight lead to it? Do the problems with our system come from people who don't think things through or people who thought things through incorrectly?
Dr. Ed Lopez, associate professor of economics at San Jose State University, gives an introduction to business cycles at the 2011 Summer Freedom University: History seminar.
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Brad Birzer at the History & Liberty Summer Seminar hosted by the Foundation for Economic Education lecturing on "Jacksonian America and the Rise of Democracy."
Professor Peter Boettke talks to students attending FEE summer seminars in 2006 about the past, present and future of Austrian Economics. For more information visit http://fee.org/
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Epic EpiPen Rant Explains High Prices
Both legislators and crony capitalists get called out in the halls of Congress for artificially driving up the price of a life-saving medical product. When the price of the #epipen shot up 600%, most people just blamed "corporate greed." But you might be surprised to learn why Mylan's price increase was possible in the first place.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney explains in this incredible rant. For more, see: https://fee.org/articles/don-t-blame-capitalism-for-your-pricey-epipen/
In this webinar, Wayne Leighton and Edward Lopez talk about their book, "Liberty in Books: Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers". They argue that a crisis is neither necessary nor sufficient for meaningful political reform. Ideas have consequences only when the right conditions of time and place present themselves, and only when certain individuals -- we call them political entrepreneurs -- seize the opportunity.
Amazon’s offer to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion sounds pretty great to both parties, but it seems that isn’t good enough. The proposal has a lot of people worried about Amazon becoming an indestructible monopoly, and the government is all too happy to step in and settle the issue. But this concern ignores consumers’ own preferences as well as business and entrepreneurial history. This week in Words and Numbers, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan discuss the probable future of the Amazon-Whole Foods merger, what it could mean for us, and what it could mean for another once-equally feared corporation: Wal-Mart.