Ep. 1475 Gene Epstein Smacks Down Progressive Economics
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Gene Epstein returns to discuss People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, the new book by economist Joseph Stiglitz. It gets the full Epstein treatment.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1475. |
| 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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| 0:41.3 | perennial favorite on the Tom Wood Show, returns today to talk about economist Joseph Stiglitz |
| 0:47.1 | and his new book. We'll talk about that in a minute. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winning |
| 0:51.7 | economist. And in addition to this book, we're going to be talking about a column he wrote recently on the Green New Deal. |
| 0:58.8 | Oh, it just has to be seen to be believed, but you don't have to see it. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm going to link to these columns, of course, to Gene's review, and to this article, and to the book. |
| 1:07.8 | I'll link to them all at tomwoods.com slash 1475, but you don't have to read |
| 1:11.5 | Stieglus. You can listen to and trust Gene Epstein, formerly of Barron's, where he was economics |
| 1:17.7 | and book review editor, and now director of the extraordinary Soho Forum, one of the greatest |
| 1:23.5 | things in the history of the world. We'll have an opportunity to talk about that later in our |
| 1:27.1 | conversation. Gene, welcome back. Tom, it's great to be back and great to hear your voice. |
| 1:34.2 | Last I glimpsed you, I left you in that Seattle airport while you were waiting for your |
| 1:39.3 | plane. I had to desert you, Tom, because I had an earlier plane. That was after having had a great time on the Contra Cruise to Alaska. |
| 1:48.0 | And I want to give a shout out to all my friends. |
| 1:51.1 | First of all, Laura Blodgett and her husband, who I met on the Contra Cruz. |
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