Ep. 237 Why Are We So Rich?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Deirdre McCloskey, the author most recently of The Bourgeois Virtues and Bourgeois Dignity, explains how the West got rich.
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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 | 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. |
| 0:28.2 | 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. |
| 0:42.5 | No, his mind is not for rent to any government. |
| 0:47.1 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:56.7 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:57.9 | It's Monday, September 8, 2014. |
| 1:01.6 | And today we're taking on a question that has puzzled historians for many, many years. |
| 1:08.6 | Oh, yes, they've come up with answers, but it turns out the answers just don't hold |
| 1:14.4 | water. And the question is, how did the West become so rich? And there are all kinds of traditional |
| 1:24.1 | explanations that have been given, and yet our guest tells us they just don't work. |
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