The Tom Woods Show, episode 12005.

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coupon at LibertyClassroom.com slash coupons. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here talking today about Hitler and his views on economics.

We're constantly hearing the so-called progressive left refer to libertarians as fascists or

even Nazis. And yet, you'll never guess. It turns out Hitler wasn't actually a fan of laissez-faire.

He actually wants state control in the

economy. How about that? I mean, who would have guessed that a guy like Hitler would want state

control of something? So I'm going to go through and talk about the way he thinks and the evolution

of his thought over time, starting with the very question of what economics really is. Is it really a

discipline? Does it really a discipline?

Does it really have absolute laws?

Does it have fixed exact laws?

I don't mean mathematically exact, of course.

We're talking qualitatively.

But can we say qualitative things about the economy?

Can we make statements that are universally applicable, let's say? So I'm going to

start from there and then go through a number of other issues. This is, of course, the talk that I gave,

one of the talks I gave at this year's Mises University program. The other one I did was episode

1197 of this show, so you definitely want to listen to that one. That one's a little bit more fun than one on Hitler, but I hope you get something out of this show. So you definitely want to listen to that one. That one's a little bit more fun than one on Hitler.

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