Interview with Dwight Lee by Luis Figueroa

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Dwight Lee, PhD, explains that prices are the most effective way people around the world can communicate. He talks about the importance of having access to this information and how restrictive government policies such as price controls, import regulations, and central planning essentially amount to censorship. This censorship leads to a breakdown in communication between producers and consumers as well as wasted resources. Dr. Lee emphasizes that capitalism allows everyone to communicate with one another efficiently, while socialism substitutes a world of knowledge with limited information from bureaucrats and politicians.

Dwight R. Lee

Dwight R. Lee is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is a research fellow at The Independent Institute and professor at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests cover a variety of areas, including the economics of the environment and natural resources, economics of political decision making, and labor economics. He is coauthor of the books Economics in Our Time (with R. McNown), Microeconomics (with F. Glahe), Taxation and the Deficit Economy (which he edited), and Regulating Government (with R. McKenzie). Lee holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Source: www.apee.org
Last update: 21/04/2009

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Interview with Dwight Lee by Luis Figueroa
Dwight Lee

Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference, APEE
Guatemala City
April 6, 2009

A New Media - UFM production. Guatemala, May 2009
Camera: Jorge Samayoa, Manuel Alvarez; digital editing: Rebeca Zúñiga; index: Lucía Canjura;
content revisers: Daphne Ortiz, Jennifer Keller; publication: Mario Pivaral / Carlos Petz

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