The Tom Woods Show, episode 1261.

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Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here, joined by James Audison, who is returning to the program

after an absence of several years. We haven't talked to him in quite some time, but I'm delighted

to have him on to talk about his book, Actual Ethics. This book is extremely impressive in, first of all,

it's ambitious scope and that it actually accomplishes what it sets out to do. And I'm going to have

him describe that in just a minute,

but the gist of it is, here is a philosopher starting from first principles and reasoning his way

into more or less the libertarian case. It's very, very persuasively done and very impressive.

Jim is a teaching professor of political economy at Wake Forest University,

an executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism. He holds his Ph.D.

in philosophy from the University of Chicago. Jim, welcome back.

Thank you so much, Tom. It's a pleasure to be here.

It's been almost 900 episodes since I last spoke to you. So it's been

rather a while. Yeah. Yeah. I've kept busy, you know, since we were. You inspired me since the last time.

You're finally getting closer to perfection. Thank you very much. So we talked about some interesting

topics in the past. Your book, actual ethics is a really, really good and persuasive one.

Thank you so much. And you and I have something, you and I have something in common, actually.

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