THE SMITH CENTER

for Private Enterprise Studies

Video Tape Library

Copies of lectures are available for $20 each. Please email The Smith Center to request your DVD. Please allow six weeks for shipping and handling

John Lott
"Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't."
February 6, 2008

Jeffery Rogers Hummel
"A Greenspan Retrospective: Why everyone has gotten it wrong."
January 16, 2008

Benjamin Powell, Ph.D
"Immigration: In Defense of Completely Free Labor Markets
May 16, 2007

Philippe Manteau
“French Liberty Fighters: The Last Chance for Old Europe”
April 25, 2007

15th Anniversary Celebration with Chuck Leavell of the Rolling Stones
March 15, 2007

Thomas Hazlett
"Impediments to Better Broadband: An Analysis of Radio Spectrum Regulation"
February 7, 2007

Benjamin Powell, Ph.D.
"Sweatshop Wages and Third World Workers: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?"
January 31, 2007

David Henderson
"Making Great Decisions in Business and Life"
January 10, 2007

Ron Galloway
"Why Wal-Mart Works and Why that Makes the Unions Crazy"
November 29, 2006

Lewis M. Andrews, Ph.D.
"America's Second Civil War: The Public Employment Complex v. Taxpayers"
October 11, 2006

Sabah Al-Jadooah
"The Prospects for Free Enterprise in Iraq"
October 4, 2006

Dr. Sean Randolph
"Innovation: Tri-Valley and Global Implications"
 May 17, 2006

Lisa Snell
"Rob Reiner's (The Meathead) June Ballot Initiative for Universal Preschool at Taxpayer Expense"
May 3, 2006

Richard Ebeling
"Central Planning Doesn't Work, So Why Not Abolish the Federal Reserve?"
April 19, 2006

JR Clark
"Too Safe to be Safe: The Downside to Government Safety Regulations."
April 5, 2006

Terry L. Anderson
"Markets and the Environment: Friends or Foes?"
March 8, 2006

Bob Williams
"Reforming Elections for the Preservation of Liberty"
February 15, 2006

Roger Pilon, Ph.D., J.D.
"Congress and the Supreme Court: Does the Constitution Matter?"
February 1, 2006

Scott Powell, Ph.D.
"The Folly of Sarbanes-Oxley"
January 11, 2006

Gene Burns
"The Politics of Liberty"
November 30, 2005

Ken Foskett
"Refusing to Court Favor: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas"
November 9, 2005

Thomas R. Saving
"Social Security Reform: Can it Secure the Rights to Your Pension Benefits?"
October 19, 2005

Mike Hazelhoefer
"Trials and Triumphs of Opening a New Charter School in Livermore, CA"
October 12, 2005

The 4th Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented to Terry Easton,
"United States: Can A Mixed Economy Be Free?"
May 26, 2005

Micah Frankel, Ph.D
"Political Correctness Follies."
May 18, 2005

Dwight Lee
"Excessive Government: Special Interests Aren't the Problem."
May 11, 2005

Dan Klein
"Academia's One-Party System: Facts and Issues"
May 4, 2005

Thomas Wood
"The Prospects for Abolishing Racial Preferences"
April 20, 2005

Sharon Prestley
"American Women Resisters to Authority: Women in the Struggle for Liberty"
April 6, 2005

Randal O'Toole
"Why Urban Sprawl and Autos are Good for Your Health and Pocketbook."
March 2, 2005

William Conerly
"Unemployment Insurance: Government Failure and Private Remedies"
February 16, 2005

Rabbi Daniel Lapin
"Money, Business, and Hi-Tech: Evil Tools of Exploitation or Positive Engines of Prosperity?"
January 26, 2005

Omar Altalib
"Success In Iraq"
January, 12, 2005

Terry Easton
"Naked Moral Entrepreneurship"
December 1, 2004

Tom Palmer
"Heroism in the Struggle for Liberty: 2800 BC to the Modern Age"
November 17, 2004

Jerry O'Driscoll
"Economic Freedom in the World"
October 13, 2004

Larry Diamond
"The Struggle For Democracy In Iraq"
May 12, 2004

David Denholm
"Are Unions Still Relevant; A New Labor Paradigm"
Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Claudia Bermudez
"Fighting the Communists in Nicaragua: Commander 3-80"
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Nancy Yonge
"Should We Be Afraid of the Trade Deficit?"
Wednesday, March 10, 2004

David Henderson
"Is Freedom Contagious?"
Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Suzanne Storar
"Marketing Yourself"
Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Melanie Morgan
"Recalling the Recall"
Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Star Parker
"Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor"
Wednesday, December 3, 2003

David Yeagley
"How the Left Stole the Indian Image"
Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Roy Cordato
"Market Based Environmentalism vs. the Free Market"
Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Robert Balling
"A Climate of Doubt About Global Warming"
Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Jim Stockdale
"The Evolving Demise of Public Education K-12"
Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Joseph Mallon
"2003: A Great Year To Be An Entrepreneur"
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Third Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award Luncheon

Lydia Ortega
"Public Policy and Women: An Economist's Appraisal"
Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Richard Quint
"Tales of Entrepreneurship: Subterranean Thoughts"
April 16, 2003

Lacy Edwards
"Entrepreneurship in the High- Tech World"
Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Dado Banatao
"From Entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist: A Techie's Journey"
Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Jeff Hummel
"The Political Economy of Slavery: Why the North Should Have Seceded from the South."
January 15, 2003

Annelise Anderson
"Reagan In His Own Hand."
December 4, 2002

Michael C. Elkin
"The U.S. Small Business Administration:
How It Supports the Growth of the Nation's Entrepreneurial Economy"
November 13, 2002

Georganne Proctor
"Financing Global Projects: Problems and Prospects"
October 30, 2002

John Stossel
"Freedom and Its Enemies"
October 18, 2002

Micah Frankel
"Enron, Andersen & Ken Lay: What Should We Learn?"
May 22, 2002

Cassandra Moore
"The Demise of Public School Education"
April 17, 2002

Michael Mack
"The Odyssey of Sweet Tomatoes"
"Wednesday, March 6, 2002

Scott Kriens
"The Internet Economy: Old, New or Irrelevant?"
Second Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award Luncheon

C. S. Park
"Global Entrepreneurship"
February 7, 2002

David Henderson
The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey"
January 16, 2002

Alan Grant
"What It Takes to Develop a Successful Enterprise"
November 28, 2001

Dennis O'Keeffe
"Envy & AntiAmericanism: Thoughts on September 11th"
November 13, 2001

Walter E. Williams
The Smith Center's 10th Anniversary Celebration
"How Much Can Discrimination Explain?"
November 1, 2001

Philip Howard
"The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far"
October 3, 2001

Robert Novak
"Washington, DC: Promises, Politics and Plunder"
May 30, 2001

David Horowitz
"Free Speech or Censorship on Reparations for Slavery"
May 9, 2001

Lance Izumi
"Anatomy of California's Energy Crisis"
April 18, 2001

T. J. Rodgers, Recipient, Entrepreneur Award
"Silicon Valley's Foundation: Freedom, Not Silicon "
March 29, 2001

Fred Smith
"Environmental Elitism v. The Poor"
February 28, 2001

John McWhorter
"Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America"
February 14, 2001

John Fund
"Visitor's Guide to an Alien Planet: Washington, D.C."
January 29, 2001

Richard Bishirjian
"Profits, Education, and the Internet"
January 10, 2001

Jane Shaw
"Facts, Not Fear About the Environment"
November 29, 2000

Michael Strong
"Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Education"
November 1, 2000

Don Wolfe
"Stop Lawsuit Abuse: We All Pay and We All Lose"
October 25, 2000

J.R. Clark
"Morality in Environmental Regulations"
September 27, 2000

Joseph Farah
"The Free Press in the Internet Age"
May 10, 2000

Mark Skousen
"In Defense of Inequality"
April 26, 2000

Doug Bandow
"Government's Assault on Health Care"
April 5, 2000

Clint Bolick
"Civil Rights: Preferences or Empowerment?"
March 1, 2000

Virginia Postrel
"The Future and Its Enemies"
February 23, 2000

Gordon Brady
"The Internet versus Government"
January 19, 2000

Michael Walker
"Economic Freedom in the World"
January 12, 2000

Tracy Simmons
"Journalism: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"
November 3, 1999

Sheldon Richman
"Separating School and State"
October 6, 1999

Louis Navellier
"Three Easy Steps to Successful Investing & Current Market Outlook"
May 27, 1999

Steve Forbes
"The Next Millennium: An Agenda for the Rebirth of Freedom"
May 12, 1999

Paul Staudohar
"LOCKOUT David Stern and Latrell Sprewell: Labor Relations in the NBA "
May 5, 1999

David Schulhof
"Entrepreneurship Mentoring"
April 14, 1999

Lona McCallister and Pat Davidson
"David v. Goliath: The Battle for Private Property Rights in Livermore"
April 7, 1999

David Friedman
"Privacy v. Government: Why Encryption Will Change the World"
March 3, 1999

Robert A. Levy
"Abuse of Antitrust: U.S. vs Microsoft"
February 16, 1999

Kevin Dayton and Mark Thierman
January 19, 1999
"Union Coercion in the Construction Industry"

Greg Christainsen,
December 2, 1998
"Traffic Congestion: What the Bay Area Can Learn from Singapore""

James McNish
November 19, 1998
"The Y2K Problem: Apocalypse or A Bad Winter?"

George Leef
October 21, 1998
"Free-market Lawyering: Who Needs the State Bar?"

Shannon Reeves,
October 7, 1998
"Racism is Not the No. 1 Problem Facing Black Americans."

Dick Armey
May 29, 1998
"Freedom and Responsibility: The Role Values Play in Shaping Public Policy

Alan Bonsteel
May 20, 1998
"The Battle for School Choice Continues"

Mark Schiller
March 4, 1998
"Medical Savings Accounts: Solutions to Socialist Medicine?"

Fred Singer
February 14, 1998
"Global Warming: Sense or Nonsense?"

William Rusher
January 28 ,1998
"Has the Conservative Revolution been Betrayed?"

Tom Huse
January 14, 1998
"Currency Trading: Perfect Markets or Perfect Scoundrels?"

Andy Van Horn
December 3, 1997
"Electric Power Industry Restructuring in California: Boon or Boondoggle?"

Lew Uhler
November 19, 1997
"Bind Government Down with the Chains of the Constitution"

Greg Smith
November 12, 1997
"Insurance Regulation in California: Remaking the Marketplace"

Mark Bucher
October 22, 1997
"Confronting Forced Union Dues in Politics"

T. J. Rodgers
October 7, 1997
"Entrepreneurship and the Leviathan"

Glynn Custred
June 10, 1997
"Confronting the Preference Industry: The Writing of Proposition 209"

Ward Connerly
June 5, 1997
"Eliminating Racial and Gender Preferences: the Road from California"

Lynn Scarlett
May 14, 1997
"Ecological Futures: Private vs. Public Recycling"

Wilbert Smith
April 30, 1997
"The Future of Education in California"

Benay Todzo
April 9, 1997
"How Do Innovative Entrepreneurs Find Venture Funding?"

Frank Felicelli, Douglas Barton
March 5, 1997
"Investment Survival in Times of Irrational Exuberance"

Anke Hampel, Anja Kegel, Constantin von Groote
February 25, 1997
"A Journey through Ancient and Modern German State of Saxony"

Steve Hayward and Wesley Smith; a debate, with Debra Saunders as moderator
February 19, 1997
"Is the Existing Tort System a Perversion of Justice?"

Dwight Lee
February 11, 1997
"Reverse Revenue Sharing: Abolishing the IRS"

Dan Klein
January 29, 1997
"Government Failure: Why Good People Do Villainous Things"

Stephen Enna
January 22, 1996
"The Human Side of Business: Today's Issues, Tomorrow's Forecast."

David Denholm
December 4, 1996
"The Impact of Unionism on Public Education"

Micah Frankel
November 13, 1996
"After the Election: What Now?"

Eloise Anderson
October 9, 1996
"Welfare Reform"

Sally Pipes, Terry Jones
June 28, 1996
"Affirmative Action/California Civil Rights Initiative Debate"

Alvin Rabushka
June 5, 1996
"The Flat Tax in Europe and the United States"

Nancy Bord
April 10,1996
"Let's Keep the Feds Out of Silicon Valley"

William Kristol
March 7, 1996
"The End of Liberalism"

Paul Hewitt
February 27, 1996
"Hi- 'BillTally': The Politicians Can No Longer Hide"

Romy Schadow
February 14, 1996
"A Student from Former East Germany Evaluates New Found Freedom"

Tibor Machan
January 24, 1996
"The Moral Case for Insider Trading"

Thomas Huse
January 17, 1996
"The End of the Cold War: A Restructuring of Economic Intelligence"

Milan Moravec
October 18, 1995
"Managing Strategic Change"

Duncan Reekie
May 24, 1995
"Empowering and Assimilating Tribes in the New South Africa

Edwin Feulner
April 18, 1995
"Your Federal Taxes at Work: Politics at Play"

The Honorable Robert H. Bork
March 7, 1995
"Politics and the Constitution"

Glynn Custred, Errol Smith, Emily Stoper, Henry Der
February 17, 1995
"A Debate on Affirmative Action and the California Civil Rights Initiative"

David Large
February 1, 1995
"Watt Wars: The Coming Breakup of California's Electric Monopolies"

Milan Moravec
January 25, 1995
"Managing Change, Risk, and Leadership"

Aldona Robbins
January 18, 1995
"How to Upsize the American Economy: Rational Tax Policy"

Star Parker
November 16, 1994
"The Civil Rights Establishment vs. Self Help"

Richard K. Vedder
October 19, 1994
"Out of Work: Is Government the Major Cause of Unemployment?"

Debra Saunders
October 5, 1994
"The Prospects for Conservatives in the November Election: Do We Lose If We Win?"

Fred H. Lawson
September 28, 1994
"Promoting Markets in the Middle East: Will Private Enterprise Resurrect the Great Trading..."

Jack L. Hancock
May 25, 1994
"Entrepreneurship: Winners and Losers in the Telecommunications Technology of the 21st Century"

Dick Kahler
May 5, 1994
"The World of the Community Banker"

Bruce Ames
April 28, 1994
"Environmentalism vs. Reason"

Kurt Leube
April 6, 1994
"The Road to Freedom in Central Europe: Lessons for United States"

Dr. Murray Rothbard
March 9, 1994
"Clinton's Great Leap Backward"

Thomas Huse
February 28, 1994
"The World's Largest Financial Market: Foreign Exchange and You"

Charles W. Baird
February 23, 1994
"Politics and Economics in the "New" South Africa"

Dan Daiss
February 9, 1994
"Private Small Company Investing: Approaches, Issues & Prospects"

Robert Hessen
January 19, 1994
"The Continuing Appeal of Socialism"

Elkin/Miller/Sullivan
December 8, 1993
"Successful Market-Driven Health Coalitions"

George G. Reisman
December 1, 1993
"Education and the Attack on Western Culture"

Lynn Martin
November 16, 1993
"The Political Economy of Women in the Workforce"

Janet R. Beales
November 3, 1993
"Private-Sector Innovations in Public Education"

Brian Goncher
October 27, 1993
"The State of The Start Up Company"

Noel Fenton
May 26, 1993
"Current State of Venture Capital Industries"

Robert Shoffner
May 5, 1993
"Small Business Banking"

Gary Zimmerman
April 28, 1993
"Issues in Banking"

David Henderson
April 14, 1993
"In Defense of the 1980s"

Smith Center Debate
April 7, 1993
"The Education Crisis: What Role for Choice?"

David Large
March 31, 1993
"Fertile Ground for Entrepreneurs: The New Independent Power Industry"

James T. Bennett
March 10, 1993
"The National Health Crisis: What Role for Health Charities?"

John Lott
February 24, 1993
"The Rape of Michael Milken"

Cassandra Chrones Moore
January 27, 1993
"Whose Money Is It Anyway? The IOLTA Program: Legalized Theft"

Dr. William J. Bennett
December 3, 1992
"Politics and Values in Education Reform"

A. Lawrence Chickering
November 18, 1992
"Why Economic Reform is So Difficult"

David Y. Denholm
October 21, 1992
"The Impact of Public Sector Unionism on the Private Sector"

Roger Pilon
September 30, 1992
"Natural Law and the U.S. Constitution"

K.C. Sahu
August 7, 1992
"Regulatory Liberalization and Entrepreneurship in India"

Harold Demsetz
May 6, 1992
"The Transition to Capitalism in Eastern Europe and China"

Sudha Shenoy
April 22, 1992
"International Trade Deficits Are Good for Us"

Thomas DiLorenzo
March 4, 1992
"Telling It Like It Isn't" The Political Economy of Government Propaganda"

Sergei V. Tsyganov
February 26, 1992
"Transition Period in Post-Soviet Free Enterprise"

Charles Van Eaton
February 5, 1992
"A Proposed Economic Constitution for the Former Soviet Republics"

Lynn Scarlett
January 22, 1992
"Recycling: Is It Really The Answer?"

Bernard Siegan
November 8, 1991
"The Supreme Court: Economic Liberties and the Constitution"

Dr. Milton Friedman - Inaugural Lecture
November 1, 1991
"Economic Freedom, Human Freedom and Political Freedom"

Dr. Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
October 16, 1991
"The Historical, Philosophical and Economic Roots of Eastern European Disintegration"

Dr. Abel Aganbegyan
August 30, 1991
"Economic and Political Development of the Soviet Union"