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    Everyday Freedom

    Philip Howard, attorney and chair of Common Good, talked about what he considers to be the root causes of government failures and addressed how to turn things around. This event was held at …

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    In Depth with Philip K. Howard

    Attorney and author Philip K. Howard joined Book TV to talk and take calls about government and legal reform in America. Mr. Howard’s books include The Death of Common Sense and the recently…

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    Authors on Government Efficiency - Philip Howard, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Edmund Phelps and Paul Romer

    Philip Howard (Not Accountable), Jennifer Murtazashvili (Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan), Edmund Phelps (My Journeys in Economic Theory), and Paul Romer (Professor of Economics …

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    Authors on Government Efficiency - Philip Howard, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Yuval Levin and Paul Romer

    Philip Howard (Not Accountable), Jennifer Murtazashvili (Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan]), Yuval Levin (A Time to Build), and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer talked ab…

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    Q&A with Philip K. Howard

    Attorney Philip K. Howard, author of Not Accountable, provided a critique of public employee unions and their impact in the U.S. He argued that these unions have usurped decision-making powe…

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    Try Common Sense

    Common Good founder Philip Howard talked about his book, Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Left and Right, in which he offered his thoughts on how to create a more practic…

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    The Tyranny of Metrics

    Jerry Muller reported on the use of metrics in government, education, business, medicine, and more.

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    The Rule of Nobody

    Philip Howard was joined by panelists to talk about his book, The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government, in which he argues that leadership in the U.S. has been…

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    The Death of Common Sense

    Author Philip Howard discussed his recent book, The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America, published by Random House, which described a plethora of nonsensical laws and regul…

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    Medical Malpractice Laws

    Philip Howard talked from New York City about President Obama’s $250 million budget request for grants to help U.S. states modify their medical malpractice laws. Part of the grants could be …

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    Legal System Reform

    The Senate Republican Conference held a hearing on tort reform. They talked about measures to lower the numbers of lawsuits brought, general reforms to the judicial system, and ensuring that…

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    After Words with Philip Howard

    Phillip Howard talked about his book Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law (W.W. Norton and Co.; January 12, 2009). Howard uses the stories of real people to explain w…

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    Machiavelli on Modern Leadership

    Mr. Ledeen talked about his book Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules Are As Timely and Important Today As Five Centuries Ago, published by St. Martin’s Press. He e…

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    The High Costs of Lawsuit Abuse

    As part of a White conference titled, “Securing Our Economic Future,” President Bush addressed the conferees briefly on tort reform and then stayed for the rest of the session. Moderated by …

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    Lawsuit Reform

    Philip Howard talked by remote video link from the Reagan Center, where he is attending the White House Conference on the Economy, about making changes in the system of bringing lawsuits. He…

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    Health Care Security

    In one of eight break-out (concurrent) sessions at an economic forum sponsored by the White House, President Bush, health care professionals and others talked about health care policy and it…

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    Common Good

    Common Good founder and chair Philip Howard talked about his new organization and its desire to overhaul the American legal system and the “lawsuit culture.” He responded to audience telepho…

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    The Lost Art of Drawing the Line

    Phillip Howard talked about his book The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far, published by Random House. The book suggests that Americans are no longer free to do what th…

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    Environmental Protection Agency Cuts

    Four authors talked with reporters about their perspectives on regulatory reform and its environmental cuts. Gregg Easterbrook is author of A Moment on Earth. Philip Howard is author of The …

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    The American Legal System

    In a conference entitled, “Common Ground: Where Can Liberals and Conservatives Agree?” panelists spoke on current legal system problems, following which they took questions from the audience…

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