Lecture by Peter G. Klein given at the 2006 Mises Supporter’s Summit, hosted at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 27-28 October 2006. http://mises.org
Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI). He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Klein specializes in organizational economics, strategy, and entrepreneurship, with applications to corporate diversification, organizational design, and innovation. His books include Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (edited with Nicolai J. Foss, Edward Elgar, 2002), The Fortunes of Liberalism, volume 4 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and The Theory of the Firm: Emergence, Synthesis, Challenges, and New Directions (with Nicolai J. Foss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Klein was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He runs the Organizations and Markets blog with Nicolai J. Foss, professor at the Copenhagen Business School. (Source: Wikipedia)
Related links:
http://mises.org/fellow.aspx?Id=21
http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/peter_g_klein/
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1367
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Lecture by Peter G. Klein presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s seminar “Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty” held in San Mateo, California; 15-16 October 2004. http://mises.org
Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI). He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Klein specializes in organizational economics, strategy, and entrepreneurship, with applications to corporate diversification, organizational design, and innovation. His books include Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (edited with Nicolai J. Foss, Edward Elgar, 2002), The Fortunes of Liberalism, volume 4 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and The Theory of the Firm: Emergence, Synthesis, Challenges, and New Directions (with Nicolai J. Foss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Klein was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He runs the Organizations and Markets blog with Nicolai J. Foss, professor at the Copenhagen Business School. (Source: Wikipedia)
Related links:
http://mises.org/fellow.aspx?Id=21
http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/peter_g_klein/
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1367
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The United States Supreme Court has ruled that Corporations can now defend themselves against ruthless politicians who are bent on their destruction, and this is only fare. Why would you restrict a corporation from defending itself in the public arena, in the political arena? Would you also say that a corporation cannot defend itself in a court of law? Would you have corporations stripped of every right that an individual has? Just how far would you go in making corporations defenseless against those who seek their destruction?
And what about Unions, should they be denied the right of free speech too? Should they not be able to present to the public their position on election issues? Just how much do you want to restrict public discourse during an election, just how much information do you want to hold back from the voter?
The best thing about this ruling is that it will lift that ridiculous ban on groups like the NRA from presenting issue ads within 60 days of an election. This in itself is cause for celebration. We will now be able to hear the other side of the gun issue right up until the election takes place, which is when we need to hear it, not 60 days prior when no one is listening.
Some say that this ruling will take the power away from the people, but I say that it will do just the opposite. During these last few elections my voice on gun control has not been heard because the organization that I belong to, the NRA, was muzzled by the federal government from presenting issue ads, but no more. I will now have my voice heard through the NRA. This is what we call freedom, the freedom to present to the intelligent electorate all of the facts so that they can make an informed decision when they vote. The key phrase here is “intelligent electorate”, the liberals do not believe that we are intelligent.
There are of course some issues about this ruling that will have to be dealt with by congress though legislation such as the ability of foreign corporations to spend money in our elections, and other issues that will arise in the future, but that is normal, it is part of the process, the world will not come to an end. There is no reason for anyone to demonize the Supreme Court for this ruling, like President Obama did when he said that this ruling “strikes at our democracy”, and that the ruling is “devastating to the public interest”, and that his administration will need to “repair the damage” done by the Supreme Court.
Does Obama really think that the five Justices who were in favor of this ruling want to damage our country, damage our Republic? Is he insane? Some might argue that saying such a thing is like the pot calling the kettle black, meaning that some believe that it is Obama who is out to destroy this country, not the Supreme Court, and in fact I would ague that the Supreme Court is the one thing that will stand in his way.
I will now end by quoting myself from my home page (my channel):
“President Bush’s greatest legacy will be his appointments of Alito and Roberts to the Supreme Court; they have, and will continue to fight for our freedom.”
jbranstetter04
Here is the ruling in its entirety. You might want to read it instead of watching The Simpson’s: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
High court shows it might be willing to act boldly
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and his conservative colleagues overturned two of the court’s past decisions to upend federal legislation that says corporations may not use their profits to support or oppose candidates and to declare unconstitutional a large portion of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act passed in 2002.
The dissent was written by Stevens, he wrote of his conservative colleagues’ “agenda” and said they had transformed a simple case about whether a conservative group’s movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton violated McCain-Feingold into a constitutional quandary. “Essentially, five justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law.”
But Roberts bristled at Stevens’s charge that the majority’s opinion showed it was not “serious about judicial restraint.”
“This approach is based on a false premise: that our practice of avoiding unnecessary (and unnecessarily broad) constitutional holdings somehow trumps our obligation faithfully to interpret the law,” Roberts wrote. “It should go without saying, however, that we cannot embrace a narrow ground of decision simply because it is narrow; it must also be right.”
Roberts seemed to be speaking to liberals when he wrote that stare decisis cannot be seen as an “inexorable command.”
“If it were, segregation would be legal, minimum wage laws would be unconstitutional and the government could wiretap ordinary criminal suspects without first obtaining warrants,” he said, referring to previous court decisions.
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Lecture by Peter G. Klein given at the 2006 Mises Supporter’s Summit, hosted at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 27-28 October 2006. http://mises.org
Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI). He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Klein specializes in organizational economics, strategy, and entrepreneurship, with applications to corporate diversification, organizational design, and innovation. His books include Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (edited with Nicolai J. Foss, Edward Elgar, 2002), The Fortunes of Liberalism, volume 4 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and The Theory of the Firm: Emergence, Synthesis, Challenges, and New Directions (with Nicolai J. Foss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Klein was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He runs the Organizations and Markets blog with Nicolai J. Foss, professor at the Copenhagen Business School. (Source: Wikipedia)
Related links:
http://mises.org/fellow.aspx?Id=21
http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/peter_g_klein/
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1367
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See the link to the chart for the results of trade with Mexico. The year NAFTA was ratified, America had a $1 billion trade surplus with Mexico. By 1995, America had a $16 billion trade deficit with Mexico. Today, America’s trade deficit with Mexico is $74 billion. The facts in the chart make President Clinton, Vice President Gore and all the newspaper editors who wrote editorials supporting NAFTA look like complete idiots or worse. Ross Perot was absolutely right even though he was not effective in the debate. Again, no matter what your views are on NAFTA, the chart (link below) speaks for itself.
Also, this video is significant because it documents how NAFTA was sold to America by its elected leaders. In hindsight, some of the most ridiculous statements I heard from the debate was from Vice President Al Gore:
1) “They [GM] have started to move jobs back from Mexico to the United States.”
2) “If he [Ross Perot] is right, then you give six months notice and you’re out of it [NAFTA].”
Lessons learned: Any time your government tries to sell you on a free trade deal with another country that has disparate living and environmental standards, don’t believe it. President Bill Clinton also made similar claims about free trade with Communist China when he signed a free trade agreement with that country in 1999. Today, the US has lost countless jobs to Communist China and suffers a staggering and unsustainable $250 billion annual trade deficit with that country.
Commentary – Losing Our Independence:
http://barrysacks5.com/losing_our_independence.htm
Chart: 20 Years of Trade With Mexico. Note how the US trade surplus with Mexico turned into large deficits soon after NAFTA was ratified in 1993.
http://barrysacks5.com/us_trade_with_mexico_chart.jpg
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Lecture by Peter G. Klein presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s seminar “Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty” held in San Mateo, California; 15-16 October 2004. http://mises.org
Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI). He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Klein specializes in organizational economics, strategy, and entrepreneurship, with applications to corporate diversification, organizational design, and innovation. His books include Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (edited with Nicolai J. Foss, Edward Elgar, 2002), The Fortunes of Liberalism, volume 4 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and The Theory of the Firm: Emergence, Synthesis, Challenges, and New Directions (with Nicolai J. Foss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Klein was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He runs the Organizations and Markets blog with Nicolai J. Foss, professor at the Copenhagen Business School. (Source: Wikipedia)
Related links:
http://mises.org/fellow.aspx?Id=21
http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/peter_g_klein/
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1367
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Owner of this media presentation, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has given permission under the Creative Commons license to publicly repost and remix as long as credit is given to the Mises Institute. More info at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
This YouTube channel, LibertyInOurTime, is in no way endorsed or affiliated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute or any of its lecturers or staff members.
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Karen Morrissey of Shoes for the Soul pours out her soul on behalf of poor and indigent children in Broward County, Florida. Help put new shoes on the feet of those who need it most. The Children! Donations and Volunteers accepted. 954-229-2344
To date, Shoes for the Soul has distributed over 30,000 new pairs of shoes to children and youths throughout South Florida, for Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina, Jamaica and in Kenya through a joint program with local CBS’s Neighbors for Neighbors and the First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale. We have accomplished this level of success completely through corporate and individual philanthropy and a total volunteer staff, including me, the Founder, as I utilized savings and a severance from corporate America to fund Shoes for the Soul in its early days. Our logo, press kit and all graphic work has been accomplished by the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Donald J. Pliner, Mia Shoes, Robeez, and Reebok are a few of our corporate donors.
In 2007, Shoes for the Soul will partner with the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation and donate new shoes to the children and youth in The Democratic Republic of the Congo on behalf of Mr. Mutumbo’s efforts to help the children of his homeland. Our goal is send thousands of pairs of shoes via a Foundation shipment, to create joy and dignity in the life of a child, and allow them to further see that we care.
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The World Trade Organization gives a presentation on the privatization of labor, and presents a new management suit for corporate executives to control them with…
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