Welcome to Cato Daily Podcast with your host Anastasia Glova. This episode is for Tuesday, March 20th.

George Mason University Economist and blogger Extraordinar Tyler Cowan of Marginal Revolution is our guest today and will be covering

libertarianism in its modern-day intellectual crisis. Tyler wrote one of the

responses to the lead essay on Cato Unbound by Brian Doherty, author of radicals for capitalism, a freewheeling history of the modern American

Libertarian Movement. The debate on Cato Unbound this month takes stock of what

libertarianism means today, how it got this way, and where it's going.

Tyler's response, at least in the way that I interpreted, is a call for libertarians to quit infighting

about the finer points of an eco-capitalism and objectivist epistemology

and to get real.

Tyler, why do you say that advances in liberty bring bigger government?

I'm not quite sure that I follow?

Hayek makes the point in his book,

The Fatal Conseat, that individuals really

evolved in fairly small groups of 100, 200 people

in hunter-gatherer society,

and we still have, to a large degree, a tribal mentality.

We might find this unfortunate, but I tend increasingly to take this as a kind of biological

fact, something we need to work around rather than something

we can change.

If we move now to modern technological society, we have a great amount of wealth, but we often

still want our government to behave as if we lived

in this kind of tribal society.

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