Ep. 1330 The State Retards Progress and Peace
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Richard Cobden, the nineteenth-century pro-trade, noninterventionist member of Parliament, once said, "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace and the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education than upon the labor of Cabinets or Foreign Offices." I take this one sentence and riff on it, covering themes in modern European history, development economics, noninterventionist foreign policy, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1330. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.9 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.4 | Folks, you may know about Contra Krugman, the podcast I do every week with Bob Murphy, |
| 0:18.3 | but you may not know that there is now a book by the same name. |
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| 0:27.7 | It is devastating, and it answers all the arguments you need answered at the water cooler. |
| 0:34.1 | Check it out at contra Krugmanbook.com. And I am the narrator of the audiobook edition, |
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| 0:47.7 | details at contra Krugmanbook.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. I think I've got some pretty |
| 0:53.7 | interesting material for you today. |
| 0:55.3 | I was going through some of my old writings the other day, looking for something. |
| 0:59.4 | And in the course of doing that, I stumbled upon an essay I had completely forgotten about all the way back from 2003. |
| 1:07.9 | In fact, it was an essay I wrote for an essay contest. and I wound up coming in third place, winning 1,500 smackers, which for a young college professor. |
| 1:18.7 | Was I a professor in those days? |
| 1:20.0 | Yes. |
| 1:20.9 | That was, you know, pretty good chunk of change there. |
| 1:23.4 | I remember I think I bought some furniture with it, including a really comfortable recliner. |
| 1:28.7 | Anyway, I had a good time spending the money. But the reason I entered the contest was that nobody |
| 1:35.1 | enters essay contests. That's the thing. So you actually have a much better chance of winning than you |
| 1:40.7 | think you do. And there were cash prizes. And I thought, well, best case |
| 1:44.4 | scenario, I win a little dough. And worst case scenario, even if I don't win any dough, I'll have an |
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