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