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62. Bryan Cheang - Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 69:10


Bryan Cheang argues that industrial policy is authoritarian.Today's book: Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State: Hong Kong and Singapore's Post-war DevelopmentToday's essay: “Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia”Bryan Cheang's email: bryan.cheang@kcl.ac.uk

61. Bart Wilson - Meaningful Economics

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 49:58


Bart Wilson on how to make economics more human.

60. Walker Hanlon - The Laissez-Faire Experiment

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 44:06


Walker Hanlon explains the rise and fall of small government in Britain.Today's Book: The Laissez-Faire Experiment: Why Britain Embraced and Then Abandoned Small Government, 1800–1914

59. Michael Huemer - Progressive Myths

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 63:13


Michael Huemer explains and challenges progressive claims.Today's book: Progressive Myths

58. Bryan Caplan - Self Help is Like a Vaccine

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 60:06


Bryan Caplan extols the virtues of self help.Today's book: Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better

57. Sheldon Richman - What Social Animals Owe to Each Other

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 74:45


Sheldon Richman makes the case for human freedom.Today's Book: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other

56. John Hasnas - Common Law Liberalism

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2024 79:34


John Hasnas describes the virtue and the beauty of the common law.Today's Book: Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society

55. Johan Norberg - The Capitalist Manifesto

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 62:57


Johan Norberg advocates radical economic freedom.Today's Book: The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg

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54. James Otteson - Honorable Business

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 61:09


James Otteson claims that businesses behave honorably by creating mutually beneficial, and mutually voluntary deals.Today's book: Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society

53. Bryan Caplan - Build, Baby, Build

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 74:17


Bryan Caplan explains why housing costs are so high.Today's book: Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

52. Chris Coyne - How to Run Wars

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2024 77:04


Chris Coyne gives a master class in how to energize a population for war.Today's book: How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite by Christopher Coyne & Abigail Hall

51. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley - Superabundance

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 65:38


Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance.Today's book: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

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50. Michael Huemer – Can We Know Anything?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 58:29


Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat.Today's book: Can We Know Anything? A Debateby Bryan Frances & Michael Huemer

49. Chandran Kukathas - Immigration and Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 66:36


Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens.Today's Book: Immigration and Freedom

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48. Jason Brennan – Democracy: A Guided Tour

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2024 68:09


Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy.Today's Book: Democracy: A Guided Tour, by Jason Brennan

47. David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2024 84:03


David Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism. Today's book: The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

46. David Lawrence – Debunking Determinism

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2024 71:33


David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more. Today's book: Debunking Determinism: Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, and the Crusade Against Free Will

45. Bryan Caplan - You Will Not Stampede Me

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 84:33


Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity.Today's book: You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism

44. Max Borders – Political Decentralization

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024


Max Borders claims we don't take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should. Books by Max Borders

43. James Tooley – Really Good Schools

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023


James Tooley shows how the world's poorest people educate their children without government.Today's Book: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education, by James Tooley

42. Maarten Prak - Pioneers of Capitalism

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023 57:58


Maarten Prak shows how capitalism developed from the bottom up.Today's Book: Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800, by Maarten Prak & Jan Luiten van Zanden

41. David Beito - The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2023 84:04


David Beito exposes the many civil liberties abuses of FDR. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance by David Beito

40. Sean Mirski - We May Dominate the World

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 65:45


Sean Mirski reviews the causes and consequences of early US foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus by Sean Mirski

39. David Schmidtz - Living Together

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 79:49


David Schmidtz discusses the inseparability of successful communities and successful lives.Follow @IdeasHavingSexxToday's Book: Living Together: Inventing Moral ScienceDavid's university page & author pageDiscussed and recommended: The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle; The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith; A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume; Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View by Immanuel Kant; Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society by James Otteson;

38. Rachel Ferguson & Marcus Witcher - Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023


Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher explain how black Americans have been held down by the state and lifted up by the market.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of AmericaRachel Ferguson: Twitter, website, Marcus Witcher: TwitterDiscussed and RecommendedThe Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy Financial Exclusion: How Competition Can Fix a Broken SystemThe Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America's PoorCompetition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaThe Black BoomArbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

37. Michael Huemer - Understanding Knowledge

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 69:17


Michael Huemer talks about puzzles and insights in the study of knowledge.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on TwitterToday's book: Understanding Knowledge Discussed and recommended: Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume, and The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand RussellMike's blog, author page, and website

36. James Otteson - Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 65:50


James Otteson argues against wealth redistribution.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Should Wealth Be Redistributed? A DebateJames's website, Twitter, author page, university page.Recommended and discussed: From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 by David Beito; Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America by Rachel Ferguson & Marcus Witcher; The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato; & The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

35. Deirdre McCloskey - The Bourgeoise Era

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 75:18


Deirdre McCloskey explains how freedom and bourgeoise dignity enriched the world.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on TwitterThe Bourgeoise Era Trilogy Vol. 1 - The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of CommerceVol. 2 - Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern WorldVol. 3 - Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the WorldShorter summary volume: Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World, by Deirdre McCloskey & Art CardenDiscussed and Recommended: Four Essays on Liberty by Isaiah Berlin; The Conservative Sensibility by George Will; Kathleen Stock & Deirdre McCloskey Debate Issues of Sex, Gender, & IdentityProfessor McCloskey's email, website, Twitter, & author page

34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2023 77:21


Bryan Caplan discusses political irrationality, partisan loyalty, and more.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political IrrationalityBryan's recommendations: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction & Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? both by Philip TetlockBryan's Twitter, Author Page, Substack, and personal website.

33. Peter Boghossian - Wokeness and Impossible Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 74:04


Peter Boghossian talks about wokeness, scholarly corruption, and how to have impossible conversations. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Find Peter on Twitter, YouTube, Substack, and his website.The Reformers, Part 1: Explores the Sokal Squared Hoax, aka the Grievance Studies AffairHow to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide, by Peter Boghossian and James LindsayThe Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World, by Matt ThorntonWoman expresses fear of backlash for agreeing with Billboard Chris

32. Matt Zwolinski - The Individualists

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 80:21


Matt Zwolinski reviews 200 years of libertarian intellectual history.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of LibertarianismFind Matt on Twitter and Substack.Matt's Recommendations: The Elements of Justice by David SchmidtzThe Structure of Liberty by Randy BarnettIndividualism and Economic Order by F.A. HayekFree Market Fairness by John TomasiLibertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jason BrennanRadicals for Capitalism by Brian DohertyThe Debates of Liberty by Wendy McElroy

31. Dan Moller - Governing Least

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 59:30


Dan Moller makes a novel case for libertarianism. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Governing Least: A New England LibertarianismDan's new book, The Way of Bach, and other info can be found at his website.Dan's recommendations: Anarchy, State, and Utopia, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, and The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

30. William Nelson - E Pluribus Unum

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2023 90:11


William Nelson describes how the common law shaped early America.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's Book: E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776William Nelson's Recommendation: Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution by Gordon WoodOther works by William Nelson

29. Fernanda Pirie - The Rule of Laws

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2023 56:59


Fernanda Pirie shares her encyclopedic knowledge of law throughout history and around the world. Follow @IdeasHaving Sexx on Twitter.Today's book: The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the WorldFind Fernanda Pirie: Author Page, Oxford, TwitterRecommended book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

28. Robert Bryce - A Question of Power

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 60:51


Robert Bryce explains how important electricity is to modern life.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's Book: A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of NationsFind Robert Bryce: Twitter, Author Page, Substack, Power Hungry PodcastRecommended Works: How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil, Renewable and Nuclear Heresies by Jesse Ausubel

27. Tibor Rutar - Capitalism for Realists

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 75:52


Tibor Rutar analyzes the costs and benefits of capitalism using a straightforward and empirical framework.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy Recommended and Discussed Books: Social Democratic Capitalism; Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?; In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty

26. Mike Rinder - A Billion Years

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2023 82:32


Mike Rinder talks Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, and his own role in the highest ranks of the church.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Mike Rinder's book: A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of ScientologyMike's blog, Twitter, and YouTubeMike's recommendations: The Sociopath Next Door, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology, Counterfeit Dreams, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of BeliefIf you are seeking help leaving Scientology: The Aftermath Foundation

25. Jonathan Rauch - The Constitution of Knowledge

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2023 74:54


Jonathan Rauch describes the social norms and institutions that generate knowledge.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of TruthJonathan's website, Twitter, and author page.Braver AngelsRecommended works: The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper; The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt; Politics and the English language by George Orwell; Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama; HATE by Nadine Strossen

24. Jason Brennan - Debating Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2023 67:51


Jason Brennan argues for less democracy and less politics.Today's Book: Debating Democracy: Do We Need More or Less?Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Other books by JasonJason's upcoming book: Democracy: A Guided TourOther discussed works: Uncivil Agreement; Democracy for Realists; Neither Liberal nor Conservative; The Case Against Education; I, Pencil

23. Jonathan Katz - Gangsters of Capitalism

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2023 73:31


Jonathan Katz describes the economic motivations behind US interventions around the world.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's EmpireJonathan Katz's blog & TwitterJonathan Katz's recommendations: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump; and The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our WorldOther books discussed: War is a Racket, by Smedley Butler; Overthrow; and The True FlagTopics: Haiti, China, Boxer Rebellion, revolution, war, business plot, coup

22. Michael Huemer - Is Political Authority an Illusion?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2023 73:06


Michael Huemer makes the case that governments have no legitimate authority.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Is Political Authority an Illusion? (Little Debates about Big Questions)Michael Huemer's recommendation: The Problem of Political AuthorityOther books by HuemerMike's web presence: Fake Noûs Blog, Personal Website, University WebsiteOther discussed books: The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind by Bart J. Wilson, and The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

21. Paul Sherman - Freedom of Speech

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2022 58:07


Paul Sherman explains how occupational licensing often violates the First Amendment.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's article: Occupational Speech and the First Amendment by Paul Sherman, as well as Paul's recommendation: Professional Speech and the First Amendment by Rodney SmollaThe Institute for JusticeLiberty and Law articlesShort Circuit NewsletterFollow @PaulMSherman on Twitter.Topics: First Amendment, freedom of speech, free expression, law, supreme court, Edward Snowden, Fourth Amendment, privacy, civil asset forfeiture, qualified immunity, police brutality, constitution, civil rights

20. Chris Coyne - In Search of Monsters to Destroy

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 64:22


Chris Coyne lays out a powerful critique of American foreign policy.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitter.Today's book: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to PeaceChris Coyne's twitter and website.Chris Coyne's recommendations: Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained, by Randall G. Holcombe; Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, by Robert Higgs; books by Andrew J. Bacevich, as well as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.

19. Matt Ridley - How Innovation Works

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 63:29


Matt Ridley describes the processes and preconditions of innovation. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitter.Today's book: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.More books by Matt.Matt's twitter and website.Matt's recommendations: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Matt's Ted Talk: When Ideas Have Sex.

18. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - The Invention of Power

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022


Bruce Bueno de Mesquita presents a novel explanation for western exceptionalism.Today's book: The Invention of Power: Popes Kings, and the Birth of the WestFollow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitterOther works by BruceContact Bruce: bruce.buenodemesquita@nyu.eduBruce's recommended reading: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber, and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, by Joseph HenrichEconomic growth, Catholicism, religion, church and state, democracy, revolution, politics, Trump

17. Lauren Hall - The Medicalization of Birth and Death

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2022 69:44


Lauren Hall explains how governments cause birth and death to become over medicalized.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitterToday's book: The Medicalization of Birth and DeathAlso by Lauren Hall: Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social IndividualismLearn more about Lauren HallLauren's recommendations: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry, And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life, Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in AmericaHow Doctors DieMedicine, healthcare, regulation, certificate of need law, American Medical Association, c-section, hospice, palliative care, over treatment

16. Bryan Caplan - Don't Be a Feminist

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2022 74:21


Bryan Caplan discusses feminism, social justice, colonialism, and more.Today's book: Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine JusticeFollow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitterBryan's twitterBryan's blogOther books by BryanBryan's recommendation: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say

15. Elizabeth Nolan Brown - Sex Work and Human Trafficking

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2022 46:29


Elizabeth Nolan Brown claims sex trafficking numbers are wildly inflated.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx and Elizabeth Nolan Brown on twitter.Today's articles: The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs, Massage Parlor PanicFeminists for LibertyReason Magazine's "Reason Roundup"The Feminist War on CrimeIndividualist Feminism: The Lost Tradition

14. Stephen Kinzer - Poisoner in Chief

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 60:02


Stephen Kinzer describes the CIA's morally dubious search for mind control.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitterToday's book: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind ControlOther books by Stephen KinzerFollow @StephenKinzer on twitterStephen's websiteTopics: CIA, MKUltra, mind control, Nazis, science, Cold War, torture, assassination, medical experiments, Imperial Japan, Soviet Union

13. Michael Huemer - Justice Before the Law

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 83:19


Michael Huemer tells us why justice should be the central value of the justice system.Today's book: Justice Before the LawFollow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitterMike's blog Fake NousMike's websiteOther books by MikeTopics: justice system, prison, plea bargaining, jury nullification, punishment, war on drugs, immigration, courts, torture

12. Mark Koyama - How the World Became Rich

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 69:48


Mark Koyama explains the historical origins of sustained economic growth.

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