Beginner education kit for libertarians: “Free to Choose”, “Commanding Height”, “I, Pencil”
Do you want to become a libertarian? Do you want to learn more but have little patience to finish a book? Here I recommend several classical TV series that you can watch in the evening when you have some free time.
They can be watched or downloaded on Internet, so you don’t need to make any financial investment.
Milton Friedman’s PBS TV series: Free to Choose (1980) 10 Volumes
Link to online video (courtesy of Palmer R. Chitester Fund)
Vol.1 Power of the market
Vol 2 The tyranny of control
Vol.3 Anatomy of a crisis
Vol 4 From Cradle to Grave
Vol.5 Created Equal
Vol.6. What’s wrong with our schools?
Vol.7. Who protects the consumer?
Vol.8 Who protects the worker?
Vol.9 How to cure inflation?
Vol.10 How to stay free?
Milton Friedman’s PBS TV series: Free to Choose (1990) 5 Volumes
Link to online video (courtesy of Palmer R. Chitester Fund)
Vol.1 The power of the market
Vol.2 The tyranny of control
Vol.3 The failure of socialism
Vol.4 What’s wrong with our school?
Vol.5 Created Equal
PBS TV series: Commanding Height
Link to online video: (courtesy of PBS)
Episode 1: The Battle of Ideas
Episode 2: The Agony of Reform
Episode 3: The New Rules of the Game
After finishing the videos, if you have 10 minutes for reading, I highly recommend to you a famous short article by Leonard E. Read, titled “I, Pencil”. The basic idea of the article is that, it is not any easier to manufacture a pencil than to deliver mails; both tasks require coordinations of millions of people with differnet expertise; thus it makes no sense that a pencil can be produced by private sector without a central planner while there are so many services the government claims only she can coordinate and deliver.
The article contains only 2,300 words, but it may fundamentally influence the way you think about how our economy operates.
If you like all of these material I introduce here, welcome on board, you are a libertarian! And do leave a message here to let me know!
Another good one:
Globalisation is Good with Johan Norberg
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5633239795464137680
Posted by: Anon | July 20, 2006 at 09:03 PM