The Tom Woods Show, episode 1729.

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A lot of our people complain that the Pentagon spends and

waste a lot of money, but the damage it does to the American economy and to American society

is much greater than just that. It deforms the economy in ways most people don't even realize.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, delighted to welcome back to the show, Sheldon Richman,

who has done many, many things in the libertarian world over the course of his life. He's edited

the Freeman, published by the foundation for economic education. He's written many books and we've

talked about a couple of them in the past. We're talking today about his brand new book, What

Social Animals O to each other. He of course runs the Libertarian Institute with Scott Horton,

and I sit on the board of the Libertarian Institute. Sheldon, welcome back.

Great to be back. Thank you for inviting me.

I'm looking at this title and of course I being a Libertarian nerd immediately thought of the

William Graham Sumner book, What Social Classes O to each other. Was there some commonality with

that book that I made you know actually no. I mean, I'd read the book. It's a collection of

essays and I don't know, maybe he says a few things in there that I repeat but it wasn't intentional.

I do have one article in that one one chapter in that book that deals with a builds on a quote

by Sumner about the banking finance power, but it just occurred to me that what I wrote over

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