1. Alan Greenspan:

2. 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.

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

5. David Mamet (1947 - )

7. Goddard College

8. David Mamet (1947 - ) Goddard College Founds theater company, S. Nicholas Theatre Company

9. David Mamet (1947 - ) Goddard College Founds theater company, S. Nicholas Theatre Company Meets William H. Macy

10. David Mamet (1947 - ) Goddard College Founds theater company, S. Nicholas Theatre Company Meets William H. Macy Brief stint in real estate

11. David Mamet (1947 - ) Early dialogue plays

12. David Mamet (1947 - ) Early dialogue plays Radio plays

13. David Mamet (1947 - ) Early dialogue plays Radio plays Emphasis on dialogue and speech

14. David Mamet (1947 - ) Early dialogue plays Radio plays Emphasis on dialogue and speech Sociolect: distinct idiom of a social group

15. Capitalist existentialism

16. Water Engine: Chicago World Fair; pyramid scheme

17. Capitalist existentialism Water Engine: Chicago World Fair; pyramid scheme American Buffalo: pawn shop

18. Capitalist existentialism Water Engine: Chicago World Fair; pyramid scheme American Buffalo: pawn shop Cons: House of Cards; The Spanish Prisoner

19. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) Real estate idiom

20. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) Real estate idiom -Leads

21. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) Real estate idiom -Leads -Sales maxims (5 th clip: 08:32)

22. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) Real estate idiom -Leads -Sales maxims -Closing

23. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) Real estate idiom -Leads -Sales maxims -Closing -Roma’s sale [first bookmark: 4:31]

24. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) Real estate idiom -Leads -Sales maxims -Closing -Roma’s sale [first bookmark: 4:31] -The fabrication [second bookmark: 1:09]

25. How language works:

26. Threats

27. How language works: Threats Fantasies

28. How language works: Threats Fantasies Insinuations

29. How language works: Threats Fantasies Insinuations Robbery plot: just listening means being implicated [third bookmark: 0:45]

31. Talking too much

32. Levine reveals himself [1:23:46]

33. Dramatic influences:

34. Samuel Beckett (dramatist of inaction)

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

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