Contents
- NEW Junto meeting July 7
- NEW upcoming speakers
- Visit NYCjunto.com
- New York City Ayn Rand Meetup June 26
- NYCjunto-discuss list
- About this newsletter
Junto is a group that shares information and discusses current issues… plus presents speakers to talk with us:
- Fred Cookinham will do a reading of the scene between Rearden and Ragnar from Part II of “Atlas Shrugged” with Josh Huntington and then
- Tyler Cowen will speak about the subject of his newest book
The Great Stagnation:
How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern
History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
Thursday, July 7
Admission Free No reservation necessary
- We’ll socialize from 7:00pm.
- The meeting begins at ABOUT 7:30pm with
a discussion of current issues and events. - The featured speaker is introduced at ABOUT 8:00pm.
- The meeting will continue to ABOUT 10:00pm.
General Society Library,
20 West 44th Street, bet. 5th and 6th Aves., NYC
near the Grand Central Terminal
Subway: 4, 5, 6, S to Grand Central — 42nd St.
or
B, D, F, 7 to 42nd Street — Sixth Ave. at Bryant Park
or
A, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3 to Times Square — 42nd St.
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M42, M98, M101, M102, M104, Q32
Train: MTA Metro-North Railroad to Grand Central
Car: Some private parking facilities in the area. Parking on side streets is metered, limited to specific days and times.
Please note:
Junto is not the usual sort of meeting with a long speech
followed by Q & A. Junto’s invited speakers give a short
presentation and are challenged to defend their assertions.
Discussions are intense, but polite. Participation by all
attendees is highly encouraged.
Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month, at the
General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, NYC,
between 5th and 6th Aves., near Grand Central Terminal
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Fred Cookinham
has done dramatic readings of Ayn Rand’s fiction at other
Junto’s. He gives New York City walking tours, available
through In Depth Walking Tours — including five on the
subject of Ayn Rand and six of Revolutionary War sites.
He was interviewed at the Atlasphere in 2005. He’s the author
of the book “The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist
Future World.” He’s written articles for “Full Context,” The
Objectivist Society’s “The New Individualist,” “Nomos,” and
“The Pragmatist.”
with
Josh Huntington
who is a Junto regular, acts in the Village Light Opera Group.
and
Tyler Cowen
His most recent book is: “The Great Stagnation:
How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern
History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better”
Here are parts of some reviews:
- “One of the most talked-about books among economists right now.” — Renee Montagne, Morning Edition, NPR
- “Tyler Cowen may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman.” — Kelly Evans, The Wall Street Journal
- “Cowen’s book…will have a profound impact on the way people think about the last thirty years.” — Ryan Avent, Economist.com
- “As Cowen makes clear, many of this era’s technological breakthroughs produce enormous happiness gains, but surprisingly little economic activity. — David Brooks, The New York Times Publisher’s description:
Tyler Cowen’s “The Great Stagnation,” the eSpecial heard
round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and
redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now a book.
America has been through the biggest financial crisis since
the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening,
media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common
to expect that things will get worse before they get better.
Certainly, the multi-decade stagnation is not yet over.
How will we get out of this mess? One political party tries to
increase government spending even when we have no good
plan for paying for ballooning programs like Medicare and
Social Security.
The other party seems to think tax cuts will raise revenue
and has a record of creating bigger fiscal disasters that the
first. Where does this madness come from?
As Cowen argues, our economy has enjoyed low-hanging
fruit since the seventeenth century: free land, immigrant
labor, and powerful new technologies.
But during the last forty years, the low-hanging fruit
started disappearing, and we started pretending it was
still there.
We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological
plateau. The fruit trees are barer than we want to believe.
That’s it. That is what has gone wrong and that is why
our politics is crazy.
Cowen reveals the underlying causes of our past
prosperity and how we will generate it again. This is a
passionate call for a new respect of scientific innovations
that benefit not only the powerful elites, but humanity as
a whole.
“Tyler Cowen, America’s Hottest Economist” –
Brendan Greeley in the May 26, 2011 “Business Week”
“For the last fifteen years, Cowen has had a strong hand
in new hires for George Mason. The school looks for
economists who are undervalued elsewhere….
Balance of article: tiny.cc/9ncz3
Tyler writes daily for the blog: MarginalRevolution.com
He’s professor of economics at George Mason U. and at the
Center for the Study of Public Choice.
He’s also the Director of the Mercatus Center. He, his wife
and stepdaughter live in Fairfax, VA with stacks of amates:
http://bit.ly/Amates
One of his current recommendations is The Arty Bollocks
Generator. He say “I want one of these for statements of
teaching philosophy”. It’s clever, each time you generate
one it will read just like the statements artists say:
tiny.cc/w6icf
Tyler’s personal site has links to many articles about and
by him: bit.ly/TylerC
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Come to Junto, meet the upcoming speakers:
* Aug. 4, Gary Jason, businessman, writer & philosophy teacher.
“School choice: Why it’s needed and its current prospects”
ProfGaryJason.com and LibertyUnbound.com
* Sept. 1, Richard Epstein’s writings go from the common-law
subjects of property, contracts and torts to constitutional law
and economics. tiny.cc/RichEpstein
* Oct. 6, Janine R. Wedel, prof. public policy, George Mason U.
Her most recent book, “Confronting Corruption, Building
Accountability: Lessons from the World of International
Development Advising”. JanineWedel.info
* Nov. 3, Kathryn Schultz, author “Being Wrong”. What it
means to be in error. Why people tend to assume they’re
right about most everything. Error is a fundamental human
condition and should be celebrated.
BeingWrongBook.com/author
* Dec. 1, David Friedman, prof. law, Santa Clara U., Liberty
magazine contributing editor, anarcho-capitalist
www.davidDFriedman.com
* Jan. 5, 2012, Ilana Mercer, “Lessons for America from
Post-Apartheid South Africa” bit.ly/MercerBook
bit.ly/MercerColumn
* Feb. 2, 2012, Ayn Rand’s 107th birthday celebration. Speaker
Donald Luskin market commentator. His subject will be
announced later. He co-wrote “I am John Galt: Today’s
Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous
Parasites Destroying It.” It introduces you to real-life titans
who’ve lived their lives like Rand’s fictional heroes and the
malefactors who’ve live like her fictional villains: Steve Jobs
as Howard Roark, Paul Krugman as Ellsworth Toohey,
John Allison as John Galt, Bill Gates as Henry Rearden
and Barney Frank as Wesley Mouch, etc.
Watch Donald on a short video on Amazon: tiny.cc/uv2eb
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New York City Ayn Rand Meetup June 26
Come join us this Sunday, 3:00pm.
As always, we’ll talk about Ayn Rand, her works, Objectivist
life, challenges, options, associations and knowledge.
Give and take, open to all, no charge, no reservations.
It’s at The Midtown Restaurant, 155 East 55 St, between
3rd and Lexington Avenues, in Manhattan, free.
Benny Pollack, Ayn Rand Meetup organizer says:”Join our
group of regular Objectivists for a lively discussion on topics
related to Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy in general.
“Please join us. If you are already versed in the topic, want
to learn or just want to spend an intellectually stimulating
afternoon, please come. I hope to see you all there.”
The Ayn Rand Meetup is on the last Sunday of each month.
Learn more about it at: AynRand.meetup.com/8
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NYCjunto-discuss list
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About this NYC Junto newsletter
- Iris Bell moderates and writes this e-newsletter
- Oleg Atbashian created NYCjunto.com. He also sends out this e-newsletter and cares for its email list.
- Andy George helps with the sound system and supplies the music.
- We’re looking for volunteers to help with Junto publicity.
- Our founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer. Visit his site at: DailySpeculations.com
- This e-newsletter comes out twice a month. You might get an occasional extra email about a timely event.
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