Mao Yushi Receives 2012 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty
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Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrmzCZs1h2A Announcement: http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/yushi/index.html Biography: http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/yushi/bio.html Mao Yushi is founder and chairman of the Unirule Institute, based in Beijing, China. He is the author of several books and many scholarly and popular articles, has taught economics at a number of universities, established some of the very first non-state charities and independent self-help organizations in China, and is well known as a courageous champion of liberty. In the 1950s he was punished through forced labor, exile, "re-education," and near starvation for saying, "If we have nowhere to buy pork, then pork prices should rise," and "If Chairman Mao wants to meet a scientist, who should visit whom?" And in 2011, at the age of 82, he wrote a public essay that was published in Caixin online called "Returning Mao Zedong to Human Form" (把毛泽东还原成人). That essay earned him numerous death threats and a greater reputation as a voice of honesty and justice. Mao Yushi is one of the great libertarian figures in the contemporary world and has worked tirelessly to bring libertarian ideas and the experience of freedom to the people of China and the wider world. Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrmzCZs1h2A Announcement: http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/yushi/index.html Biography: http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/yushi/bio.html
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Anyone who lived through communism then wrote a book on capitalism has some major balls and i wish he could have been the POTUS United States of America. Note: He was in America when he recieved this award. Thats not just coincidental.
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peter cohen your are a true hero
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Whoops! Point 4 SUCKS! There are no "collective rights". There are only individual rights. The collective is nothing more than a gathering of individuals. If there is ANY circumstance where so-called collective rights would supersede individual rights, then this would suggest making a victim of the individual "for the greater good" of the collective. As there is no such thing as a right to violate (individual) rights, then the concept of collective rights is defunct and self-contradictory.
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Good speech, congratulations Mr. Mao Yushi
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If being in a forced labor camp, as well as being an engineer and an economist does not constitute "working a day in one's life" then I am not sure what does. Yushi is "the" problem? How many has he arrested? How many oppressive laws did he sign? Power Hungry? What is his "powerful" position in the party? Or in China's Congress? Ive heard that haters are gonna hate, but you are just ridiculous.
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Your absolutely ignorant hubris really pisses me off. This guy lived through the whole of China's communist rule, and suffered far more than you could possibly imagine 'because' he defended freedom, despite all the dictatorship did to him. If during that time someone like him did anything other than work under the rule of the communists, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT! If you ever do a tenth of what this man has done for freedom, you would be a freaking hero.
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Such a pick me after watching the news from France.
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This is really beautiful
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