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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Introducing: FTCN Staff Picks

Late last year we began a staff picks email campaign. Free To Choose Network is celebrating its 30^th anniversary, and our extensive video library certainly reflects that legacy. In an effort to make use of this footage, we are promoting a short video clip each month. While some of the videos are decades old, we have been impressed to see how often the ideas are still relevant to events happening today. The staff picks campaign also gives us the opportunity to highlight segments of our newest documentary releases.

Technology has certainly changed since Free To Choose Network was founded, and we are thrilled that social media outlets such as YouTube and Facebook make it easier to share free-market ideas to as many people as possible, wherever they are, whenever they want, in an increasingly mobile and online world. 

We hope that the staff picks initiative will help us reach a generation of viewers who can stand as champions of liberty in the face of freedoms lost to ever-growing government. However these ideas are most effective when shared, and we need your help to do that! Most of our programs can be streamed online for free, and therefore it is easy to share links via email or social media. See what video we recommend each month, or share your own favorite Free To Choose Network video clips as you explore our archive at freetochoose.tv or on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.

To sign up for e-mail alerts about staff picks, please contact us at cac73@freetochoosenetwork.org or keep up with our blog. Sharing free-market principles is just a Facebook post or tweet away!

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.

Where To Watch:
You can stream both parts directly from our Free To Choose.TV website.

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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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