Ep. 2049 Saifedean Ammous and Tom on COVID Rationality, and Being Independent Academics

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Saifedean Ammous is a top Austrian economist and an important authority on Bitcoin, and it was my pleasure to make an appearance not long ago on The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean's podcast. We discuss our experiences studying at Columbia University, and the different paths we took in discovering Austrian Economics. We discuss how we became independent academics, operating outside of traditional institutions and how this gave us more freedom of speech and the ability to to reach a larger audience. We also talk about our work promoting rational thinking on masks and coronavirus lockdowns, the influence of "fiat" academics like Dr Fauci, and the various restrictions on speech that we all have to face.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 2049.
0:03.2	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.7	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.2	The Tom Woods Show.
0:14.2	Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Well, I had a bit of an emergency around the house today,
0:19.2	and so I was planning to release something fresh that I would just have recorded this morning,
0:24.3	but it was just not possible to do it. So, rather than leave you orphans with no
0:29.3	Tom Woods Show episode, I am releasing instead an appearance that I made very recently
0:36.4	on the Bitcoin Standard podcast, which is Safedin Amousa's podcast, which shares the same name
0:43.2	with his book, The Bitcoin Standard. So, he's a great and brilliant Austrian economist
0:48.2	who's well known in Bitcoin circles, but we talk about a wide variety of topics. In fact,
0:53.6	I honestly don't remember if Bitcoin even comes up in the conversation, but I hope you enjoy this.
0:58.1	It's a little on the long side, so it's appropriate for the weekend. And here we go, enjoy.
1:03.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bitcoin Standard podcast today.
1:07.1	Our guest today is Professor Tom Woods, a prolific author in Austrian economics, and a very
1:15.2	active online presence worked with the Measus Institute and has published an enormous number of
1:21.1	works on Austrian economics. He also has his own podcast, and he also runs his own educational
1:30.0	institute, online education. So, Tom and I share quite a lot in this regard. We're all doing
1:36.2	the same things. And in fact, we also share the fact that we both went to Columbia University.
1:41.6	That's where Tom did his PhD. Was it your PhD or your undergraduate? What year were you there?
1:48.9	I was there long after you. I was there in 2009. I left in 1999. Yeah. So, did you
1:58.8	do your PhD in history in Columbia, right? I did. Yeah. I did mine in sustainable development.
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