Ep. 1322 Smashing Fallacies in American Economic History
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Professor Jeff Herbener just completed the first of two courses for my LibertyClassroom.com website on American economic history, an area where there are plenty of misconceptions and fallacies to refute. In this episode we talk about 19th-century monetary policy and bank panics, fiscal policy in an age of limited government, colonial inflation, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1322. |
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| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:27.6 | in doing precisely this over at paths to income.com. Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. We're talking to |
| 0:34.5 | Jeff Herbiner today about American economic history, really from the early days up through the second half of the 19th century. So we're going to be speaking in very broad terms, of course. But Jeff has just released the first of a two-part series of courses on American Economic History for Liberty Classrooms. So this seemed like an opportune |
| 0:55.3 | moment to talk about some of the main themes in American economic history and particularly |
| 0:59.2 | themes that, let's say, get distorted or left out or misunderstood in the standard account. |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, that's what we're here for, isn't it? And Jeff is just top notch. He's the chairman |
| 1:10.4 | of the Department of History at Grove City |
| 1:12.3 | College, which is where the great Hans Sennholtz taught, and he is the assistant editor of the |
| 1:17.9 | quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. I've known Jeff for so long. I've known him since 1993, |
| 1:24.4 | and so far, no question I've asked him has he been unable to answer. He is continuing with that unbroken |
| 1:31.6 | streak, and it's just tremendous. So anyway, up until, up through January 25th, 2019, we're having a pretty |
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