"The Economic, Moral and Constitutional Case For a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy"
is the topic of our next meeting to be held on Thursday, September 12,
2013, in the Community Room of the Marina Public Library located at 190
Seaside Circle in Marina (off of Reservation Road and behind WalMart).
There will be a Meet & Greet from 5:45 - 6:15 with the meeting
starting at 6:15 p.m.
Our guest speaker David R. Henderson,
Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business and
Public Policy, Navel Postgraduate School of Monterey, will be
addressing this very critical and timely issue. Following his
presentation, Professor Henderson will take questions.
The event is free and open to the public - donations to cover costs are appreciated!
Coffee and soda will be available. Feel free to bring a "bag lunch" or an appetizer or finger food to share....
Seating is limited - so please RSVP to: speak-up-america@sbcglobal.net.
Check out the video interview with Prof. Henderson - A Case for Freedom...
For further information regarding our guest speaker...please read on:
David R. Henderson
David R. Henderson is an associate professor of economics at
the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey, California, a Research Fellow with the Hoover
Institution at Stanford University, and a research fellow with the
Fraser Institute. From 1982 to 1984, he was the senior economist for
health policy and, from 1983 to 1984, the senior economist for energy
policy, with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. His
specialty is in making economics understandable to non-economists. He blogs regularly at Econlog, http://econlog.econlib.org/.
Henderson is the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (Liberty Fund, 2008). It is now on the web at: http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html. It has been translated into Russian and Arabic. His book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey,
was published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in the fall of 2001, and
has been translated into Chinese. He also wrote, with his former
student, Charles L. Hooper, Making Great Decisions in Business and Life
(Chicago Park Press, 2006). It has been translated into Japanese and
Korean. He also writes a column, “The Wartime Economist,” for www.antiwar.com.
He has written about 200 articles for such popular publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Public Interest, National Review, Red Herring, and Reason. He has also written scholarly articles for such journals as: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Independent Review, Cato Journal, Regulation, Contemporary Policy Issues, Defense & Security Analysis, Eastern European Economics, Econ Journal Watch, and Energy Journal.
He has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the
Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Senate Committee on Labor and
Human Resources. He also appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, the O’Reilly Factor, MSNBC, Russia Today, and the Stossel show, and has done radio interviews with NPR, CBC, BBC, KQED-FM and many regional radio stations.
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