Ep. 1536 My Acceptance Speech: The Beautiful Vision of Austrian Economics

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Tom Woods

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🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On November 14, 2019, in Vienna, I received the 2019 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center, where such figures as Peter Thiel, Arthur Laffer, and Deirdre McCloskey have likewise been honored. The speech conferring the award on me was delivered by Ingo Friedrich, retired vice president of the European Parliament and president of the European Economic Senate. This episode consists of selections from that speech as well as my brief remarks.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 1536.
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.
0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.5	Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.
0:15.8	All right. I know the sound quality is terrible.
0:17.9	I'm recording directly into my computer
0:20.6	because I'm in Vienna.
0:21.8	I don't have any of my recording equipment with me.
0:24.5	But I thought for today's episode,
0:26.2	I would share with you the brief acceptance speech I delivered
0:30.3	upon receiving the 2019 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award
0:34.7	from the Austrian Economic Center here in Vienna.
0:37.9	So that's what follows.
0:39.0	And this was recorded on my smartphone.
0:41.5	I'm sure there will be official audio available at some point.
0:44.9	But I need to get an episode out here.
0:47.1	I'm a five-day week podcaster.
0:48.5	So I'm going to use what I have.
0:50.3	So what you're about to hear are selections from
0:54.2	the introduction of me and the speech
0:56.5	conferring the award upon me by Ingo Friedrich,
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