Category: Free Market Voices

Brink Lindsey: Is Income Inequality a Problem? (52m)

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

This episode features an interview of academic and juris doctorate Brink Lindsey from 2014 by Trevor Burrus and Aaron Powell, hosts of the Free Thoughts podcast. We know income inequality exists, that some people are very rich and others very poor. And this bothers quite a lot of us. Aren’t we right to be concerned about this? Isn’t there something wrong when some people have access to far more resources than others? Purchase books by Brink Lindsey on Amazon here.

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Walter Block: Defending the Dishonest Cop (15m)

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

This episode features an audio essay written by economics professor and Austro-libertarian Walter Block from 1976, and which comprises Chapter 13 of Defending the Undefendable. Purchase books by Walter Block on Amazon here.

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Bruce Benson: The Enterprise of Law, Justice without The State (1h2m)

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

This episode features an interview of academic economist Bruce Benson from 2015 by Trevor Burrus and Aaron Powell, hosts of the Free Thoughts podcast. This is a discussion on the idea of law without a government. How would such a system work? How did the law as we know it today come about? Purchase books by Bruce Benson on Amazon here.

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Donald Boudreaux: Cleaned by Capitalism (49m)

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

This episode features a presentation by economics professor Donald Boudreaux from 2013. Legend has it that capitalism might deliver lots of convenient and wonderful material goods and services, but that one of the costs of these benefits is a more polluted and less agreeable environment. This legend is false. Capitalism is history’s greatest anti-pollutant — in ways that most of us take for granted. Purchase books by Donald Boudreaux on Amazon here.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand (1h42m)

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

This episode features a lecture by author, scholar, and statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb from 2013. He discusses his work on uncertainty, randomness, and disorder outlined in his book: Antifragile. Taleb’s works focuses on decision making under uncertainty, as well as technical and philosophical problems with probability and metaprobability, in other words “what to do in a world we don’t understand”. Purchase books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Amazon here.

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Benjamin Powell: The Economics of Sweatshops (47m)

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

This episode features a lecture by economics professor Benjamin Powell from 2018. He explores what sweatshops are, why they exist, the economic forces that create them, and why they are a necessary and important component of the developing world. Purchase books by Benjamin Powell from Amazon here.

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