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Past Junto Meetings
April 1991 through July 2005
April 1991 Mitchell Jones Chlorinating: The Greatest Scandal In History
May 1991 Jim Powell Capitalism & Civilization: How Peaceful Commerce Promotes Social
Justice
Discussion: Altruism versus selfishness
June 1991 Dan Grossman Luck and Careers.
Discussion: The Future Of New York
July 1991 Victor Niederhoffer Economic Ecology: The Home Life, Distribution, and Abundance of Commodity Players
August 1991 David Boaz 400 Years Of Failure: The Lesson Of Drug Prohibition
Discussion: Methods of Improving Longevity
September 1991 Mitchell Jones
&
Susan Slyman What Makes A Good Painting
October 1991 Jules Leopold What Is Predictable?
Discussion: How To Think About Good
November 1991 Michael Rothschild Bionomics
December 1991 Kenneth Rendell The Criteria That Establishes Values In Different Collecting Areas: Some Thoughts On Their Validity And On Investing In Collectibles
January 1992 William Tucker Running Schools As A Business
February 1992 Bill McCarthy "Vice
Cop," a book about his years as head of NYPD's Morals Division
March 1992 Stephen Kagann The Corporate Headquarters Complex - And The Future Of New York City
Stephanie Winston Personal and office organization.
April 1992 Marisa Manley Why Laws Backfire
May 1992 Jim Powell Why the Morals of the Marketplace are Better than the Morals of Government
Discussion: Qualities that make for success
June 1992 Judge Marvin Frankel Adversary Justice
Discussion: Practical Ideas That Make Life Better
July 1992 Marty Edelston Battle plan for American Business
August 1992 First Anniversary Party at the Niederhoffer's
September 1992 "Benjamin Franklin" A visitor from the 18th century.
Victor Niederhoffer The Ecology of Public Government and the Market
October 1992 Richard Ebeling
&
Jacob "Bumper" Hornberger How the Principles of the Declaration of Independence have been Subverted
Steve Keeley About his world travels
November 1992 Tibor Machan Economic versus Ethical Individualism
Stephen Stigler How Statistics Can Lead to a Wrong Decision
December 1992 Murray Franck Individual Rights
Robert Schrade Life with Music
January 1993 Will Lewis Music of Management
Victor Niederhoffer Education of a Speculator
February 1993 Murray Franck
&
Tibor Machan Who Has Which Rights?
March 1993 John Taylor Gatto Confederacy of Dunces: The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
April 1993 Joan Kennedy Taylor Reclaiming the Mainstream
May 1993 David Kelley Consequences of the Pursuit of Happiness Vs. Sacrifice During the 1980's
June 1993 George Walsh Rousseau, Egalitarism and Collectivism
Jim Wynne Why Science Matters
July 1993 Jim Powell How Markets Generate Vital Knowledge for Human Progress
August 1993 Bill Bradford Economics and Ecology, Sophisticated and Vulgar (CT)
Bill Bradford Rand, Paterson, Lane & the Origins of the Modern Libertarian Movement.
September 1993 John McCormack How Property Rights Can Be Used to Protect Wildlife and Wilderness
October 1993 Adam Robinson What Smart Students Know
November 1993 Edward Hudgins The Role of Devotees of Freedom in Politics
December 1993 Herbert London Current Problems in the US
January 1994 Victor Niederhoffer What Can You Learn from Games and Hobbies
February 1994 Bill McCarthy Current Issues of Gun Control
March 1994 Kenneth Rendell How Human Nature Propels Bad Forgeries Into Major Literary
Hoaxes
April 1994 Jacob "Bumper" Hornberger The Dangers of Socialized Medicine
May 1994 Caroline Baum Analysis of Financial Markets
June 1994 Gary Greenberg Ancient Israel and Modern America: The Dangerous Parallels
July 1994 Michael Balboa Economic and Political Trends in Certain Less-developed Countries
August 1994 Arthur E. Gandolfi Sex, Economics and the Meaning of Life.
September 1994 Stephen Hicks The Love of Money
October 1994 Jim Rogers Economic, Political, Investment and Social Observations from an around-the-world motorcycle trip
November 1994 John Baden Progressive Era Reforms: The American Counter-Revolution
December 1994 Harry Browne Government doesn't work, and I want to get rid of as much of it as is practical
January 1995 Felix Livingston Homo Oeconomicus: A Man for All Seasons
February 1995 Robert Bidinotto The Criminal Justice: The Legal System versus the Individual
March 1995 Roger Pilon On the Demise and Rebirth of Constitutional Government
April 1995 Douglas Rasmussen The Communitarian Challenge to Liberty
May 1995 Bill Bradford The future of liberty and the role libertarians will play in that future
June 1995 Victor Niederhoffer Camouflage And Other Deceptions
July 1995 James Bovard Government Waste and Abusive Taxation
August 1995 Jack Schwartzman editor-in-chief of "Fragments," an international individualist magazine
September 1995 Jim Powell Intriguing, instructive, sometimes heart-warming stories about great heroes of liberty
October 1995 Tibor Machan Some autobiographical reflections
November 1995 Hans F. Sennholz Pillars Of The Welfare State
December 1995 Randy E. Barnett The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment
January 1996 John L. McCormack Conspiracy Theory
February 1996 Pierre Lemieux The Individualist Sentiment
March 1996 Larry Sechrest Hayek
April 1996 Eugene R. Dattel Japan's Failed Attempt at Global Financial Dominance
May 1996 Carl Liedhom Michigan State University Microenterprises in Developing Countries
June 1996 ?
July 1996 Dean Hazel
August 1996 Jim Powell Heroes Who Defy Tyrants: Raul Wallenberg, Natan Sharansky, & Others
September 1996 Victor Niederhoffer Music and Speculation (with pianist Robert Schrade)
October 1996 Saul Kent The Prospect of Living in Good Health to the Age of 150 and beyond
November 1996 Fred Smith Marketing the Virtues of Freedom in a World of Rational Ignorance
December 1996 Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Foundations of American Statism: The Economic Impact of the Civil War
January 1997 Frank Tipler The Physics of Immortality: There is No Limit to Progress
February 1997 Robert Bidinotto How to Present the Ideas of Individualism to Ordinary People
March 1997 Charles Adams Taxation. ?
Walter Olson The Excuse Factory
April 1997 David Ramsay Steele The Anti-Technology Movement as the Radical Alternative to Capitalism
Richard Epstein Our Inalienable Right to Health Care
May 1997 (no May meeting ?)
June 1997 Sallie Baliunas Global Warming: What the Facts Are
July 1997 George Reisman Everyone's Stake in Capitalism
August 1997 Jane Orient Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care
September 1997 Marshall Fritz Separation of Schools and State
October 1997 Wendy McElroy How Politically Correct Feminism is Hurting Women
November 1997 John McGinnis Biology and Law
December 1997 John Baden
January 1998 David Friedman (speaker unable to appear?)
February 1998 David Kelley The Epic Clash of Cultures (?)
Tibor Machan (?) The Epic Clash of Cultures
March 1998 Steve Mariotti Teaching Inner-City Kids to Start and Run a Business
April 1998 Lawrence Kudlow American Abundance: The New Economic & Moral Prosperity
May 1998 Peter Huber Law & disorder in CyberSpace: Abolish the FCC & Let Common Law Rule
June 1998 Thomas Fleming Liberty!
July 1998 Pierre Lemieux Liberty & Sex
August 1998 Stanley Mason Creative Spark of Invention
September 1998 Scott Douglas Gerber The Declaration of Independence & Constitutional Interpretation
October 1998
November 1998 Randy E. Barnett Liberty, Justice & The Rule Of Law
December 1998 James DeLong Property Matters
January 1999 Tom DiLorenzo The Food and Drink Police
February 1999 Virginia Postrel The Future and Its Enemies
March 1999 Amity Shlaes Taxation: The Greedy Hand
April 1999 James Bovard The Rise of the State & the Demise of the Citizen
May 1999 Ivan Eland Dangerous Consequences of Clinton's war in the Balkans.
June 1999 George B.N. Ayittey author of "Africa Betrayed" and "Africa in Chaos"
July 1999 Mike Godwin Center for Democracy & Technology The American Revolution
August 1999 Gregory Rehmke Free Market Incentives
September 1999 Bettina Bien Greaves Human Action After 50 Years.
October 1999 Tom Bethell The Noblest Triumph: Property & Prosperity Through The Ages
November 1999 John R. Lott Jr. More Guns, Less Crime
December 1999 Tyler Cowen (?) How Capitalism Liberates The Arts
January 2000 Joan Kennedy Taylor Sex, men and women in the market place
February 2000 Martin Gross The Conspiracy of Ignorance
March 2000 Fred Smith Electrical power crisis in California
April 2000 John Fund Why all the political Opinion Polls are wrong?
May 2000 Peter Ferrara A battle plan for Social Security
June 2000 Victor Niederhoffer Approaches to understanding the financial market
July 2000 Brett Steenbarger Psychological biases and weakness can be overcome
August 2000 David Ciocca Investing in the Internet Era
September 2000 Perry Metzger The Future of Technology
October 2000 Milo Hamilton Rice: The First Grain
November 2000 Arthur Robinson Extending human lifespan
December 2000 Jim Powell The Triumph of Liberty
January 2001 Gregory Rehmke How markets can deal with world emergencies
February 2001
March 2001 Jacob Hornberger Libertarianism vs. The Moral Bankruptcy of the left and right
April 2001 Tim Slagle Libertarian humor
May 2001 Michael Fumento BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World
June 2001 Jeremy Hildreth Cuba: A libertarian Perspective
July 2001 Dan Grossman The perfect deal
August 2001 Terry Blodgett Tracing the lost tribes of the Israelites
September 2001 Victor Niederhoffer FDA delays: how to profit from them
October 2001 Memorial for John Perry, a NYC police officer & Junto attendee, lost on 9/11
November 2001 Robin Hanson George Mason University
December 2001 Victor Niederhoffer Culture, Capitalism, American Game; “Songs of Speculation”
January 2002 David Kelley Founder, The Objectivist Center
February 2002 Deroy Murdock We’re too nice: What libertarians are doing wrong, what we can do better
March 2002 Steven Landsburg More Sex is Safer Sex, and Other Surprises About the Way Markets Work
April 2002 Dennis Ainsworth Capital Consumption 1965 to the present: its causes, consequences and cures
May 2002 Stephen Moore It's Getting Better All the Time: The Greatest Trends of the Past 100 Years
June 2002 Jeffrey Friedman Public Ignorance as a Reason for Libertarianism
July 2002 Tibor Machan Is Free Will Mystical?
August 2002 Sarah Lawrence Parenting: The Philosophy and Practice of Taking Children Seriously
September 2002 Ed Hudgins Can Ayn Rand Conquer Washington?
October 2002 Gregory Rehmke Promoting Free-Market Ideas Around the World
November 2002 Todd Seavey Libertarians, Smoking & Insanity: How ideology affects ideas about freedom & health
December 2002 Fred Smith Heaven or Hell: The Hope and Threat of Globalization
January 2003 Victor Niederhoffer
& Laurel Kenner Practical Speculation in an Uncertain World
February 2003 Donald J. Boudreaux How Capitalism Leads to a Cleaner Environment & Better Health
March 2003 Henry Gifford Fire Science & The World Trade Center's vulnerable architecture
April 2003 Thomas L. Knapp Rational Review.com Deadly Confusions: Libertarianism & War
May 2003 Jesse Walker Reason magazine Broadcasters and the State
June 2003 Jim Rogers author, "Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Trip"
July 2003 Richard Kostelanetz author, "Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony"
August 2003 Fred Smith Corporate Aftershock: Economic Liberty Before and After Enron
September 2003 Gregory Rehmke Socialism in US Electric Utilities & Its Role in the Recent Blackout
October 2003 Alex Tabarrok Terrorism Futures, Information Markets & a New Form of Democracy
November 2003 Jim Powell How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
December 2003 Charles Murray American Enterprise Institute, author of "Human Accomplishment"
January 2004 Tyler Cowen George Mason University Civilization: The Case for a Free Society
February 2004 Celebration of the 99th birthday of Ayn Rand and the 93rd birthday of Ronald Reagan.
James Bovard Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
March 2004 Robert Bidinotto
April 2004 John Stossel
May 2004 Alan Charles Kors
June 2004 David Kelley The Objectivist Center Can the Muslim World Modernize? The Case of Morocco
July 2004 June Arunga Why Africans are Abandoning Africa
August 2004 Gabriella Megyesi Lessons from Lands without Liberty
Gregory Rehmke Program director of EconomicThinking.org
September 2004 Victor Niederhoffer Deception in the Stock Market
October 2004 Jeffrey Friedman The Politics of Ignorance
November 2004 Tibor Machan Hoover Institution Animal Rights: A New Threat to Liberty
December 2004 Lawrence Kudlow CNBC What’s Ahead for 2005? A post-election look at the economy and the stock market
January 2005 Celebration of Ayn Rand's 100th birthday
February 2005 Richard W. Stevens Civilian Disarmament and Genocide
March 2005 Michael Strong Entrepreneurs: Engineers of World Prosperity
April 2005 Gary Hoover Creating & Building Lasting Enterprises
May 2005 Jerome Huyler author of "Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era"
June 2005 Jacob Sullum senior editor of "Reason" magazine
July 2005 Wendy McElroy author of "Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century"
The above list of Junto speakers from April 1991 through July 2005 is
incomplete. Please contact us if you have more,
or more accurate, information.
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