I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

Now's not that time.

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

Oh, why everything?

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

Don't be afraid.

I'm going to unshackle your mind.

An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

Your professor has arrived.

Tom Woods.

Well, his mind is not foreign to any government.

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It's Thursday, March 27th,

2014. We are talking sweatshops today. Should we be boycotting sweatshops? Or is there another way

to think about this question of sweatshops? We're going to ask Ben Powell, author of a brand new book from

Cambridge University Press, Out of Poverty, Sweatshops in the Global Economy. Ben is a professor

in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, where he's also the director of the

Free Market Institute. He is the North American editor of

the Review of Austrian Economics and a senior research fellow with the Independent Institute. Ben,

welcome back to the show. Hey, Tom, always good to be with you, man. Well, I was excited for you when

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