Alan Greenspan:

Alan Greenspan:

Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I'm grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her. All of my work had been empirical and numbers-based, never values-oriented. I was a talented technician, but that was all. My logical positivism had discounted history and literature -- if you'd asked me whether Chaucer was worth reading, I'd have said, "Don't bother." Rand persuaded me to look at human beings, their values, how they work, what they do and why they do it, and how they think and why they think. This broadened my horizons far beyond the models of economics I'd learned. I began to study how societies form and how cultures behave, and to realize that economics and forecasting depend on such knowledge -- different cultures grow and create material wealth in profoundly different ways.

Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I'm grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her. All of my work had been empirical and numbers-based, never values-oriented. I was a talented technician, but that was all. My logical positivism had discounted history and literature -- if you'd asked me whether Chaucer was worth reading, I'd have said, "Don't bother." Rand persuaded me to look at human beings, their values, how they work, what they do and why they do it, and how they think and why they think. This broadened my horizons far beyond the models of economics I'd learned. I began to study how societies form and how cultures behave, and to realize that economics and forecasting depend on such knowledge -- different cultures grow and create material wealth in profoundly different ways.

Ayn Rand

“the lifeline feeding any social system is a culture’s dominant philosophy and . . . Capitalism never had a philosophical base” (24).

David Mamet (1947 - )

David Mamet (1947 - )

David Mamet (1947 - )

Goddard College

David Mamet (1947 - )

Goddard College Founds theater company, S. Nicholas Theatre

Company

David Mamet (1947 - )

Goddard College Founds theater company, S. Nicholas Theatre

Company Meets William H. Macy

David Mamet (1947 - )

Goddard College Founds theater company, S. Nicholas Theatre

Company Meets William H. MacyBrief stint in real estate

David Mamet (1947 - )

Early dialogue plays

David Mamet (1947 - )

Early dialogue playsRadio plays

David Mamet (1947 - )

Early dialogue playsRadio playsEmphasis on dialogue and speech

David Mamet (1947 - )

Early dialogue playsRadio playsEmphasis on dialogue and speechSociolect: distinct idiom of a social group

Capitalist existentialism

Capitalist existentialism

Water Engine: Chicago World Fair; pyramid scheme

Capitalist existentialism

Water Engine: Chicago World Fair; pyramid schemeAmerican Buffalo: pawn shop

Capitalist existentialism

Water Engine: Chicago World Fair; pyramid schemeAmerican Buffalo: pawn shopCons: House of Cards; The Spanish Prisoner

Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)

Real estate idiom

Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)

Real estate idiom- Leads

Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)

Real estate idiom- Leads- Sales maxims (5th clip: 08:32)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)

Real estate idiom- Leads- Sales maxims- Closing

Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)

Real estate idiom- Leads- Sales maxims- Closing- Roma’s sale [first bookmark: 4:31]

Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)

Real estate idiom- Leads- Sales maxims- Closing- Roma’s sale [first bookmark: 4:31]- The fabrication [second bookmark: 1:09]

How language works:

How language works:Threats

How language works:ThreatsFantasies

How language works:ThreatsFantasiesInsinuations

How language works:ThreatsFantasiesInsinuationsRobbery plot: just listening means being implicated [third bookmark: 0:45]

Talking too much

Talking too muchLevine reveals himself [1:23:46]

Dramatic influences:

Dramatic influences: Samuel Beckett (dramatist of inaction)

Dramatic influences: Samuel Beckett (dramatist of inaction)Harold Pinter

Dramatic influences: Samuel Beckett (dramatist of inaction)Harold Pinter (dramatist of silence)