I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

Now's not that time.

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

Oh, why everything?

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

Let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

Don't be afraid.

I'll be afraid.

Prepare to unshackle your mind.

An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

Your professor has arrived.

Tom Woods.

Well, his mind is not for rent to any government.

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It's Friday, June 13th,

2014, and I'm very glad to welcome to the program today, Alejandro Chafuen, who is president of the

Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a position he's held since 1991. But in particular, I want to talk to him about a book of his that has been very important to me. And that's a book that began in 1986 called, with the title Christians for Freedom, late Scholastic Economics. And then in 2003, an expanded edition was called

Faith and Liberty, the Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics. Now, who are the late Scholastics?

We're going to get to that in just a minute. But the point of this discussion is that there's

no reason to think that it's just natural. It's just to be expected that churchmen are going to speak like

leftists when they talk about the economy. That is certainly not to be expected because we have,

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