The Tom Woods Show, episode 1249.

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Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Absolutely delighted to welcome Gene Epstein back to the program.

Gene is recently retired from Barron's, and he is the director of the Soho Forum, and no doubt we'll have an opportunity to say something about that.

But he had an article very recently about the career of economist Joseph Stiglitz.

And you may not know that much about this particular economist, but he is one of these celebrity economists.

He's very, very well known.

And Gene, as politely as possible, eviscerates him. And I think this is important because it

reveals something about the kind of people who are presented to us as celebrity economists,

the kind of people we are taught to admire and hold in high regard. And I just,

I look at a career like this and can't for the life of me understand what it is I'm supposed to

admire about it. And when you hear the kinds of positions this fellow has taken, I think you'll

understand what I'm driving at. So I'm going to leave Gene to introduce Stiglitz to you,

and then it's off to the races. I'll link to Gene's article on this at tomwoods.com

slash 1249. Gene, welcome back. Tom, happy to be back with you, and thanks very much, by the way, for that interview the other day with

Michael Recktonwald of NYU. Anybody who didn't listen to that interview you did, should listen to it.

Michael Recktonwald is at NYU, and I live and worked practically on the NYU campus. So I'm going to beat you to the punch about taking him out for a meal.

We're meeting for breakfast on me tomorrow morning.

Michael Recton-Wall.

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