Ep. 1398 Tyler Cowen on Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Big business has become a villain not just to the progressive left but also to the populist right and even to many libertarians, who think they see cronyism everywhere. Lost amid this climate of condemnation is a sober assessment of the true record of big business in improving our lives. Tyler Cowen gives us precisely that assessment: he is frank about the moral faults of big business, but he overwhelms us with arguments in its favor that most people have never heard. Result: an excellent book and episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1398. |
| 0:03.1 | 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. |
| 0:14.1 | Folks, I really hope you'll be vacationing with me this July. |
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| 0:52.1 | and we'll see you there. |
| 0:55.4 | Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 1:00.4 | I am absolutely delighted to be talking to Tyler Cowan about his brand new book, |
| 1:04.0 | Big Business, a love letter to an American anti-hero. |
| 1:07.5 | Such a great book, I cannot sing its praises enough. |
| 1:10.7 | A great many of you are no doubt familiar with Tyler Cowan, |
| 1:11.2 | who holds his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University |
| 1:17.3 | and serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason. And with Alex |
| 1:23.3 | Tabarach, who's also been a guest on the Tom Wood Show. He is co-author of the Popular Economics |
| 1:28.3 | Blog Marginal Revolution and co-founder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution |
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