Wolność w Remoncie

People talking of how global warming will kill us all are wrong. It will not kill us if we adjust. Also there are more important problems than climate that we can solve cheaper, easier and faster. A talk with  Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish author and President of the think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center. Video version with subtitles in Polish

He is a real traveller who visited over 80 countries in times when they were facing riots, wars and economic transformation. His travels made him a fierce defender of human freedom. Meet Lawrence Reed, an economist, a journalist and the president emeritus of Foundation for Economic Education.

Jeffrey A. Tucker is a well-known libertarian author, economist and Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He was spiritus movens of Great Barrington Declaration, he's been firmly anti-lockdown since the beginning of pandemic.

Pandemic and unprecedented government actions taken to prevent it might have inflationary consequences in the future. After the WWII we at least tried to pay back debts, right now there are no plans like that - says Arnold Kling, economist who worked for Federal Reserve.

Richard Vedder, a distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University in Athens, speaks on the dangers regarding the growth of the government in crisis. Sadly it nevers comes back to its pre-crisis size. Every additional dollar collected in taxes contributes to more than a dollar increase in public spending.

Professor David Friedman, son of Milton Friedman, is even more radical than his father - he is an anarchocapitalist. But this talk is not about anarchism. It's about US politics, power of Big Tech, Black Lives Matter movement and the concept of sustainable growth.

Some libertarians are talkers. Well, most of them. But there are doers, too. Vít Jedlička, a Czech political activist decided to take matters into his own hands and created his own state - Liberland. It's located between Serbia and Croatia and it is still fighting for international recognition. It's designed to be a minarchist state with as minimal government as possible. Listen to President Jedlicka speaking of his philosophy and bold plans.Check also video version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ_DP5Xlya4

Prof. Bryan Caplan, economist from George Mason University, explains why education is (mostly) waste of your time and money. In his view education is about signalling rather than human capital.  It's the process that matters, not its content - your future employers will see your diploma as a proof you are patient, obedient and smart enough to effectively do your job not as  proof of your professional skills.Here's a book prof. Caplan wrote on this topichttps://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652Video version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5BvMfVbxmw

Economist and journalist from Peru, Alvaro Vargas Llosa (and son of Mario, the writer) tells a sad story of Latin America countries that once were rich and fell into poverty due to socialism and cronism.Check also video version on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0DCJS_zON4&t=1440s

Johan Norberg, author of "Progress" and "Open" soon after recovering from Covid-19 speaks of the benefits of freedom in times of pandemic and explains why lockdown policies might not be so good as advertised.Check also video version: Rozmowa z Johanem Norbergiem. Okiem Bastiata #9 - YouTube