Junto 3/3/2011

Thank you Colter for presenting last Thursday!

For next March 3rd, Dan Gardner is going to present on the topic of U.S. foreign policy. We are going to look at a few different articles/videos which can be found here:

http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6095

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHfdSi-GDo

We will probably also get up another reading here in the next few days but go ahead and look at these to get the general idea of what we will be talking about.

Thanks!

Junto 2/17/11

Big thanks to Jake Honsvick for leading our last Junto presentation.

This week Colter Angell will be leading a discussion a work by Ludwig Von Mises entitled "Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism" and can be found http://mises.org/daily/2370 there. There are a few different links to all of the parts but it is really quite brief.

Feel free to use the comments function on this blog as a type of forum to prepare for Thursday's presentation.

Junto 2/3/2011

Thanks to everyone who came out to our last meeting, it was our largest group yet!

For our next discussion we will continue on with The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. We will read chapters 5 - 10 and our discussion will be lead by Jake Honsvick, Economics major at BYU-Idaho.

Jake has also put together a document of supplemental reading that can be acquired HERE and we highly recommend that you give it a read!

Feel free to use the comments to this blog as a forum to prepare for our discussion by posting thoughts, possible discussion questions, and additional articles/resources that would help us to prepare.

Be sure to invite anyone that you think would be interested in coming to our groups, we would love to have some opposing viewpoints in our meetings.

Junto 1/20/2011!!!

Next Junto will be on Thursay the 20th 2:00pm @ Craigos.

Our reading will be the first 4 chapters of The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek.

I have not been able to find a complete free pdf version of this book but this is one that should be on everyone's shelf anyways. Amazon has a great deal for it HERE. If you are unable to acquire the book, Ryan Kristjanson has found an abridged version of the book which can be downloaded HERE.

In addition, feel free to invite any of your friends to Junto as we are always looking for more to come.

Go ahead and post discussion questions as comments to this blog.

Junto Break

Hey everyone!

Huge thanks to V.P. Scrimshaw yesterday for leading what I think was our best Junto yet!

As we discussed, we want to read a book over the break and discuss it for our first Junto meeting in January. If you've read an awesome book on liberty or economics that you think would fit well for a Junto discussion, please post it as soon as possible as a comment! We need to get one chosen soon so that we can have enough time to read it before January.

Email me at colin22182@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Junto 11/18/10

Big thanks to Matt Huff for doing a great job on the last discussion.

Next Junto's discussion is going to be on an interesting topic called Anarcho-Capitalism. Our reading is going to be much more manageable than last week's and can be found at: http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf .

We are still looking into who will lead this discussion but feel free to ago ahead and post some discussion points as comments.

Junto 11/4/2010

A big thanks to Eric Hull for leading our last Junto discussion!

We are still looking for a discussion leader for next time but we already have decided on the topic. It is will be Murray Rothbard's "The Case for a 100% Gold Standard". This can be found here: http://mises.org/daily/1829

There is a small preface at the beginning of the webpage and you'll need to scroll down a ways to get to the start of the book. We are getting this up so early since it is a somewhat longer read than we have had in the past (comparable to The Law by Bastiat). Feel free to post some discussion questions as comments to this post.

Thanks everyone!