We’re Energy Hungry Monsters - Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg (VIDEO)

We’re energy hungry monsters. We’re thoughtless consumers and we waste way too much electricity. If we keep this up, the whole planet will suffer, and if developing countries copy us, it’s a disaster, right? Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.

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We’re Selfish Consumers Who Waste Too Much Electricity - Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg (VIDEO)

In rich countries, we buy more, we travel anywhere, and the planet pays the price. It’s obvious that the richer we get, the more we damage the environment. Dead wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains. 

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Child Labor and Globalization (VIDEO)

Free trade means that we buy the cheapest goods no matter how it is produced. Even if the goods are produced by the cheapest labor: children. You consume, and another child suffers. Luckily, that is Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Mexican Immigrants (VIDEO)

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Nordic Gender Equality (VIDEO)

If the rest of the world wants women to rise to the top in business, you should do what we have done in Sweden and other Nordic countries with generous welfare states and egalitarian policies. Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains. 

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Happiness (VIDEO)

Isn't there something wrong with our modern, individualistic world? We all want more choices and more wealth, but we get overwhelmed by all those choices, and after a certain point, more money doesn't contribute to our well-being. GDP cannot buy happiness. Dead wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Easy Money (VIDEO)

It’s been an awful financial crisis, but luckily central banks have saved our economy by flooding the markets with easy money. Now it won’t happen again.  I’m sorry to disappoint, but that’s probably Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.  

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What can a man with a plain name who lived over 200 years ago tell us about life today? Who was The Real Adam Smith? And why should we care?

In this two-hour, two-part documentary, FTCM Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explores Adam Smith's life, his ideas about morality and economics, and how the concepts he discussed in his books and lectures are still relevant today.

The Real Adam Smith – like all Free To Choose Media programs – will challenge viewers to form their own opinions on issues regarding personal, economic, and political freedoms, in keeping with our corporate purpose. Mark your calendars or set your DVRs today!

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Reminder Alert - The Real Adam Smith Screening in Chicago is TONIGHT!!!

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We hope you can join us this evening for a sneak peek at the new documentary The Real Adam Smith, which will be airing on WTTW July 7 and 14.  The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about Adam Smith and the relevancy of his ideas today.

Speakers include:

• Kevin M. Murphy, the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

• Johan Norberg, Executive Editor and host of The Real Adam Smith, Senior Fellow at Cato Institute, Author, Columnist and Commentator.

• Alison Mangiero, Senior Director of the Manhattan Institute's Adam Smith Society.

• Jim Taylor, Director of The Real Adam Smith, and other documentaries for public television.

• Bob Chitester, President and CEO of Free To Choose Network and Executive Producer of The Real Adam Smith.

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Arkansas Residents: The Real Adam Smith is airing in your area on Monday (5/2/2016) - tune in!

The Real Adam Smith is airing in your area on Monday (5/2/2016) be sure to tune in!

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Carmine's Staff Pick: The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg

The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration 

by Johan Norberg

Last month President Obama spoke to a group in Argentina and said the following:

"So often in the past there's been a sharp division between left and right, between capitalist and communist or socialist. And especially in the Americas, that's been a big debate, right? Oh, you know, you're a capitalist Yankee dog, and oh, you know, you're some crazy communist that's going to take away everybody's property … I mean, those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don't have to worry about whether it neatly fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory – you should just decide what works," said President Obama.

What works, eh? We don't need to look further than China to see a dramatic shift from socialism to free-market principles. See a great explanation of this shift in our newest film series, The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg.

This quote summarizes the point nicely:

"After Mao died, both the Chinese leaders and the Chinese people recognized that socialism didn't work … They gradually opened up the economy, allowed private sector to enter in one industry after another, and of course, once the private enterprises entered any sector, they quickly out-performed state enterprises." – Ning Wang, professor of economics at the Ronald Coase Institute and co-author of the book How China Became Capitalist. 

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Inequality (VIDEO)

The world’s 62 richest people own more than the world’s 3.5 billion poorest people combined. Surely, the big problem in our world is inequality, and the only way to help the poor, is to take from the rich. Dead Wrong! In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.

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The Real Adam Smith DVD Sale

The Real Adam Smith (DVD) - Broadcast Special Price $15.95.

What can a man with a plain name who lived over 200 years ago tell us about life today? Who was The Real Adam Smith? And why should we care? In this two-hour, two-part documentary, Swedish author, commentator and Cato Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explores Adam Smith’s life, his ideas about morality and economics, and how the concepts he discussed in his books and lectures are still relevant today. 

Hour One, Morality & Markets, explores Smith’s life and role in the Scottish Enlightenment, his thoughts on empathy and how we distinguish right from wrong. French wine, Scottish whiskey, and freshly-baked scones all illustrate Smith’s economic principles. True wealth is defined. We discover Smith’s thoughts on the government’s role in markets, his distaste for monopolies/crony capitalism in the form of the East India Company, and his thoughts on the American colonies. 

Hour Two, Ideas That Changed the World, explores contemporary life and Smith’s influences on the very things we see going on today. Why is Smith widely studied now in China? Ethical businesses, like Whole Foods, showcase the morality Smith insisted was critical to thriving markets. Uber and eBay demonstrate that markets can thrive through the organization and “self-policing” of the participants themselves.

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New Mexico, California and Texas Residents: The Real Adam Smith is airing in your state (4/14/2016 - 4/18/2016)

The Real Adam Smith is airing in these cities starting Thursday until Monday - be sure to tune in!

• Portales, New Mexico residents - tune into station KENW on Thursday 4/14/2016 at 1:00 AM MT to catch this broadcast.

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Stagnant Middle Class (VIDEO)

The middle class is being squeezed. US wages have not increased since the 1970s. If we had just slowed down the pace of technological change, and exposed our companies to less global competition, we would all have benefited. Dead Wrong! In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.

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TV Worth Watching: The Real Adam Smith

We just released our latest Free To Choose Media broadcast 

It’s difficult to imagine that a man who lived with horse-drawn carriages and sailing ships would foresee our massive 21st century global market exchange, much less the relationship between markets and morality. But Adam Smith was no ordinary 18th century figure. Considered the “father of modern economics,” Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. The revolutionary ideas he penned in The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, changed the world.

Swedish author, commentator and Cato Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explores Adam Smith's life, his ideas about morality and economics, and how the concepts he discussed in his books and lectures are still relevant today.

Morality & Markets:
Part One, Morality & Markets, explores Smith’s life and role in the Scottish Enlightenment, his thoughts on empathy and how we distinguish right from wrong. French wine, Scottish whiskey, and freshly-baked scones all illustrate Smith’s economic principles. True wealth is defined. We discover Smith’s thoughts on the government’s role in markets, his distaste for monopolies/crony capitalism in the form of the East India Company, and his thoughts on the American colonies.

Ideas That Changed the World:
Part Two, Ideas That Changed the World, explores contemporary life and Smith’s influences on the very things we see going on today. Why is Smith widely studied now in China? Ethical businesses, like Whole Foods, showcase the morality Smith insisted was critical to thriving markets. Uber, eBay and even a tiny guitar store demonstrate that markets can thrive through the organization and “self-policing” of the participants themselves.

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Dead Wrong with Johan Norberg - Socialist Sweden (Video)

Many people claim the U.S. should be more like Sweden and give more benefits. Should we? In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains how Sweden became successful first, and how expanded government actually pulled them down.

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Dead Wrong with Johan Norberg - Sweatshops (Video)

The clothes we wear condemn millions to a life of working in a sweatshop in countries like Cambodia and Bangladesh. It’s embarrassing that we walk around in fancy clothes made by poor people who work long hours for little money. We should all be ashamed, shouldn’t we?