A weekly show about politics and liberty, featuring conversations with top scholars, philosophers, historians, economists, and public policy experts. Hosted by Trevor Burrus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 17 days 4 hours 46 minutes
How Conscious Capitalism Can Solve Global Poverty
Michael Strong joins us this week to talk about the role that capitalism and social entrepreneurship play in alleviating global poverty.
We also discuss special economic zones, startup cities, the right of exit, mechanisms of public choice, and seasteading...
How the Powerful Captured the Economy
Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles join us to discuss four pathological policy regimes they say are responsible for the slow growth and high inequality that’s plagued the US economy in the twenty-first century.
The case studies presented in Lindsey and Teles’s new book highlight how financial regulation, occupational licensing, intellectual property, and zoning and land use policies have been captured by the powerful and politically-connected to enrich themselves at others’ expense...
Punk Rock Politics
Dr. Frank of The Mr. T Experience joins us this week to talk about the politics of punk rock. What is punk rebelling against? Is it inherently political?
Why do anti-authoritarian, counter-cultural movements so often reject free markets and libertarianism?
Show Notes and Further Reading
The Mr. T Experience on Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon Music.
Dr...
How the Right Lost Its Mind
Charles J. Sykes joins us this week for a discussion on the origins of the populist, pro-Trump Right.
What happened to the conservative intellectual infrastructure that was so robust in William F. Buckley, Jr...
Do Employers Rule Our Lives?
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her new book, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk About It).
How has the nature of employment changed throughout history? Is the typical American workplace a dictatorship? Do we need a worker’s bill of rights?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Anderson’s book is available here.
Here’s our previous episode with Prof...
Your World on the Blockchain
Brock Cusick joins us this week to talk about the decentralized blockchain technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies run on, and about bitcoin itself: how does bitcoin work? What makes it valuable?
Why is there a finite amount of bitcoin? What happens when all of the bitcoin is mined? What’s next for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology? Will the government step in to regulate this? Can it?
Show Notes and Further Reading
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The Implications of Behavioral Economics
Peter Van Doren joins us once more on the podcast, this time for a discussion on Richard Thaler’s work in behavioral economics...
How Drug Prohibition Caused the Opioid Crisis
Jeffrey A. Singer joins us this week to talk about the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in the United States...
Washington's Five Tricks
David Schoenbrod shares five specific tricks that politicians from both parties use to avoid public accountability...
Is the Iran Deal a Good Deal?
John Glaser and Emma Ashford join us this week for a discussion on the “Iran nuclear deal” that’s been in the news lately...