Ep. 192 Pirates, Somalia, Anarchy, and More
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Pete Leeson of George Mason University discusses his new book Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.4 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I'll be afraid. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.2 | An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.0 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:42.3 | The mind is not for rent to any government. |
| 0:47.0 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It's Thursday, July 3rd, 2014. |
| 1:01.0 | And the new names just keep on coming here on the show. Today it's Pete Leeson, whom we have not had as a guest before, yet another newcomer to the show. |
| 1:14.5 | Pete is BB&T professor for the study of capitalism and the Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University. |
| 1:20.5 | He's a senior fellow at the F.A. Hayek program for the advanced study of philosophy, politics, and economics. |
| 1:27.3 | He's North American editor of the journal Public Choice |
| 1:30.2 | and an associate editor of the Review of Austrian Economics. |
| 1:34.5 | He joins us today to talk about his new book, Anarchy Unbound, |
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