Ep. 123 Climate Change and Liberty

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Is climate change real? If so, how would libertarians handle it? Plus, why slavery can't long exist on a free market. Bob Murphy joins Tom.

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0:00.0	I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.
0:09.9	In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.
0:14.9	Now's not that time.
0:16.4	Daddy, what do taxes pay for?
0:18.2	Oh, why everything?
0:19.7	Policemen, trees, sunshine.
0:21.9	Let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.
0:25.9	Don't be afraid.
0:26.7	I'll be afraid.
0:28.3	Prepare to unshackle your mind.
0:31.2	An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.
0:36.9	Your professor has arrived.
0:41.0	Tom Woods.
0:46.8	Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.
0:51.8	Welcome, everybody.
0:52.6	It's Monday, March 24th, 2014. Bob Murphy joins us
0:57.9	today. I keep wanting to have Bob on to talk about, I'm going to tell him this when he comes on in a
1:02.9	minute. I keep wanting to have him on to talk about the interesting ideas in his book, Chaos Theory,
1:08.4	from I think over 10 years ago now. And yet, every time I'm about to do that,
1:14.1	he goes and writes something interesting that I want to talk about instead. So today I've got two
1:18.3	topics. Yes, we're going to do the climate change issue, because a lot of you guys have
1:24.0	asked, can we have a program on climate change? So we're going to do that with Bob, who is an energy economist on top of everything else that he is.
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