Al Jazeera's Riz Khan talks to Thomas Friedman, author and New York Times columnist, about the state of the US economy, the upcoming presidential elections and what the US presidential candidates must do to save the environment. [ More Detail ]
Other interviews with authors are available at www.wsj.com/video. The top-rated television host from the Fox News Channel talks about the keys to his show's success, presidential politics and his memoir "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity." (Oct. 2) [ More Detail ]
Thomas Friedman destroys Sen. McCain's reputation as a reformer on energy and says he's a representative of Big Oil.FRIEDMAN: Oh, about 1% to global demand, or global resources if we find anything. I tried to imagine if there were Russian, Saudi, and Iranian observer at that convention listening to them say "Drill, baby, drill" what would they have been doing? They would have been up their high fiving each other. They would have been leading that chant, because that means you, American, you're going to be focused on 19th century oil, rather than giving birth to a 20th century which could threaten us, renewable energy. [ More Detail ]
On Meet The Press today, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman slammed the chants of "Drill, Drill, Drill" at the Republican National Convention, saying that it was the equivalent to "if on the eve of the IT revolution, the revolution of PCs and the internet, someone was up there standing and demanding "IBM selectric typewriters, IBM selectric typewriters." [ More Detail ]
Professor Stew Friedman visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life" This event took place on May 16, 2008, as part of the Leading@Google series. For more information about Prof. Friedman and "Total Leadership", please visit http://www.totalleadership.org/ Stew Friedman is the founder of Total Leadership. He is an innovator in both the leadership development and work/life fields. A faculty member at the Wharton School since 1984, in 1991 he founded both the Wharton Leadership Programs and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. He created the Total Leadership program in the late '90s while he was a senior executive at Ford Motor, where he was responsible for leadership development worldwide.Now more than ever, your success as a leader isn't just about being a great businessperson. You've got to be a great person, performing well in all domains of your life — your work, your home, your community, and your private self. The good news is that, contrary to conventional wisdom about "balance," you don't have to assume that these domains compete in a zero-sum game. Total Leadership is a game-changing blueprint for how to perform well as a leader not by trading off one domain for another, but by finding mutual value among all four. With engaging examples and clear instruction, Friedman provides more than thirty hands-on tools for using these proven principles to produce stronger business results, find clearer purpose in what you do, feel more connected to the people who matter most, and generate sustainable change. [ More Detail ]
Thomas Friedman, the author and NY Times columnist, was invited to Brown University to give a keynote speech on Earth Day, before a packed auditorium. His talk, titled "Green is the new Red White and Blue" was about how corporate environmentalism (based on putting a price on the atmosphere, and investing in biofuels and techno-fixes) can restore America to its "natural place in the global order." Luckily, this outrageous neoliberal capitalist propaganda was interrupted with a suprise visit from the Greenwash Guerrillas. Leaflets were thrown to the crowd, stating:----------Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face...* because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism's conquest of the planet* for telling the world that the free market and techno fixes can save us from climate change. From carbon trading to biofuels, these distractions are dangerous in and of themselves, while encouraging inaction with respect to the true problems at hand.* for helping turn environmentalism into a fake plastic consumer product for the privileged* For his long-standing support for the US Occupation of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Such committed support to the US War Machine and its proxy states overseas cannot be masked behind any twisted mask of "green" - the US Military is the largest single emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.* for his pure arrogance.On behalf of the earth and all true environmentalists -- we, the Greenwash Guerrillas, declare Thomas Friedman's "Green" as fake and toxic to human and planetary health as the cool-whip covering his face. [ More Detail ]
A Climate Change Conversation with Google Founders, moderated by Tom Friedman, held at the World Economic Forum's Annual General Meeting in Davos, January 2008. [ More Detail ]
Thomas Friedman, columnist at The New York Times.More about this event: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/milestone/index.htmLicense: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu [ More Detail ]
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Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.http://copiousdissent.blogspot.comhttp://copiousdissent.blogspot.com/2008/01/milton-friedman-debates-naomi-klein.html [ More Detail ]
Michel Friedman interviewt Horst Mahler für die Zeitschrift Vanity FairOrt: Kempinski Hotel - Flughafen München Zeit: 04.10.20071. Teil http://youtube.com/watch?v=ExlXi8UJF1M2. Teil http://youtube.com/watch?v=jCmqvwbBQzk&feature=user3. Teil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAhhlqDT9U [ More Detail ]
This clip is from the 15-part lecture series, "Milton Friedman Speaks" http://www.ideachannel.com/product_info.php?products_id=1137 Transcript available via FreedomChannel: http://freedomchannel.blogspot.com/2007/12/milton-friedman-on-slavery.htmlSummary:A student poses a series of question on based on Friedman's notion that people should pursue their own self-interest. The student points out that he'd read that Friedman had previously come out against disaster aid for victims of a flood in Pennsylvania. Friedman corrected the questioner and noted that he did not come out against private aid for flood victims but instead was against the Federal Government providing discounted flood insurance in advance to home purchasers which motivated people to build houses in areas where they otherwise would not have been able to obtain insurance privately. If not for the discounted insurance, it's likely many of the flooded houses would never have been built in the first place as it wouldn't have been in peoples self-interest.The student went on to note that it was recently reported that an old man in Ohio died when the electric company turned off his power when he'd failed to pay his electric bill. Was it moral for the company to act in it's own self-interest to do so? Friedman responded by asking what if the electric company never turned off the power for anyone? Who would pay the cost--the people who own or work at the electric company? It would be unjust to impose that responsibility on individuals who are running an honest business of providing electricity. Friedman suggests that the true responsibility lies on the mans neighbors and friends who were not charitable enough to allow him to meet the electric bills.Finally the student uses the example of Ford deciding not to install a $13 block of plastic which would prevent it's Pinto cars from exploding in a rear-end collision. Ford estimated such a move would cost 200 lives a year at a cost of $200,000 per life lost. They multiplied and found that it wasn't worth it to install the plastic block. He asked if a corporation seeking it's own self-interest was a good thing in this case? Friedman responded by asking, what if it cost $1 billion to save each life, should Ford have put in the block? It's simply not practical to put an infinite value on an individuals life. If it took $1 billion in resources to keep one individual safe, and acquiring those resources meant that a million people must starve, it's a bad deal. Friedman concludes that he doesn't know if the $200,000 number that Ford used was the right number to maximize the overall benefits, but at the end of the day the principle is that we can't simply protect ourselves from everything and impose that cost on others. Friedman posits that the question the student should be raising, is should Ford be required to attach the statement to the car, "we've made this car $13 cheaper, and therefore it is X% more risky for you to buy it".See also:Free to Choose - All 15 episodes streaming online for freehttp://www.ideachannel.tvA history of Free to Choosehttp://www.freetochoose.com [ More Detail ]
This clip is from the 15-part lecture series, "Milton Friedman Speaks" http://www.ideachannel.com/product_info.php?products_id=1137 Transcript available via FreedomChannel: http://freedomchannel.blogspot.com/2007/12/milton-friedman-on-slavery.htmlSummary:A student poses a series of question on based on Friedman's notion that people should pursue their own self-interest. The student points out that he'd read that Friedman had previously come out against disaster aid for victims of a flood in Pennsylvania. Friedman corrected the questioner and noted that he did not come out against private aid for flood victims but instead was against the Federal Government providing discounted flood insurance in advance to home purchasers which motivated people to build houses in areas where they otherwise would not have been able to obtain insurance privately. If not for the discounted insurance, it's likely many of the flooded houses would never have been built in the first place as it wouldn't have been in peoples self-interest.The student went on to note that it was recently reported that an old man in Ohio died when the electric company turned off his power when he'd failed to pay his electric bill. Was it moral for the company to act in it's own self-interest to do so? Friedman responded by asking what if the electric company never turned off the power for anyone? Who would pay the cost--the people who own or work at the electric company? It would be unjust to impose that responsibility on individuals who are running an honest business of providing electricity. Friedman suggests that the true responsibility lies on the mans neighbors and friends who were not charitable enough to allow him to meet the electric bills.Finally the student uses the example of Ford deciding not to install a $13 block of plastic which would prevent it's Pinto cars from exploding in a rear-end collision. Ford estimated such a move would cost 200 lives a year at a cost of $200,000 per life lost. They multiplied and found that it wasn't worth it to install the plastic block. He asked if a corporation seeking it's own self-interest was a good thing in this case? Friedman responded by asking, what if it cost $1 billion to save each life, should Ford have put in the block? It's simply not practical to put an infinite value on an individuals life. If it took $1 billion in resources to keep one individual safe, and acquiring those resources meant that a million people must starve, it's a bad deal. Friedman concludes that he doesn't know if the $200,000 number that Ford used was the right number to maximize the overall benefits, but at the end of the day the principle is that we can't simply protect ourselves from everything and impose that cost on others. Friedman posits that the question the student should be raising, is should Ford be required to attach the statement to the car, "we've made this car $13 cheaper, and therefore it is X% more risky for you to buy it".See also:Free to Choose - All 15 episodes streaming online for freehttp://www.ideachannel.tvA history of Free to Choosehttp://www.freetochoose.com [ More Detail ]
天城越え唄・石川さゆりギター・マーティ・フリードマン 琵琶・坂田美子Ishikawa Sayuri is a japanese enka-singer.Enka(演歌) is a japanese Popular music.Sakata Yoshiko is a biwa-player.Biwa(琵琶) is a traditional instrumental in East Asia. [ More Detail ]
GUESTS/AFFILIATIONS: Thomas Friedman, The New York Times / Author, "Longitudes &Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11" [Farrar, Straus, Giroux] /// Paul Krugman, The New York Times / Author, "The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century" [ More Detail ]
Thomas L. Friedman, Journalist / Author, Book: "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century" [Publisher: Farrar, Strauss &Giroux] [ More Detail ]
Thomas L. Friedman, Journalist / Author, Book: "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century" [Publisher: Farrar, Strauss &Giroux] [ More Detail ]
An hour with Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. Friedman discusses his life, his contributions to economics, the Republican Party and his view on the direction of the United States and the world in coming years. [ More Detail ]