Ep. 1458 Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ben Powell returns to the show to discuss his new book with Bob Lawson, in which the two economists visit various unfree places around the world and share their observations. (It turns out that alcohol, and usually beer, is often a good indicator of degrees of freedom.) In this episode we get a glimpse inside Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, and (a genuine success story) Georgia.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1458. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:32.2 | through me? Head over to Ron Paul homeschool.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Ben Powell is back with us today. |
| 0:39.4 | Today is the day of release for his brand new book with Robert Lawson called Socialism Sucks. |
| 0:45.8 | Two economists drink their way through the unfree world. |
| 0:49.1 | It's a great book. |
| 0:49.9 | I wrote the forward to it. |
| 0:51.1 | I hope it does really well. |
| 0:52.7 | It's a lot of fun to read. |
| 0:55.3 | It's unique. It's not like any book you've read on this subject before. Ben's been a guest on this program before. |
| 1:00.6 | He is the director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and a senior fellow |
| 1:05.8 | with the Independent Institute. Ben, welcome back. Hey, Tom, great to be back with you. I'm so glad your book is finally out. |
| 1:13.1 | Such a great idea. The title's great. |
| 1:15.8 | Covers great. Material's great. |
| 1:18.8 | The forward is also great, if I may say that. |
| 1:21.4 | Well, you know, it was a little sketchy getting that guy involved, but it turned on |
| 1:25.7 | all right. |
| 1:26.6 | Ended up turning out all right. So I'm really |
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