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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 270 How Would Libertarians Deal With Ebola?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Economist and libertarian theorist Bob Murphy joins Tom to discuss disease, quarantines, and liberty.

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

0:05.2

Now's not that time.

0:06.4

And Republicans.

0:07.9

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

0:12.2

You need a voice of liberty.

0:15.0

Look no further.

0:16.8

You've found it.

0:18.4

Tom Woods.

0:21.1

Beware, citizen.

0:22.9

You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:26.9

The Tom Woods Show.

0:33.7

Welcome, everybody.

0:35.0

It's Thursday, October 23rd, 2014. And we're talking today about Ebola,

0:41.6

but it doesn't have to be Ebola. The point is, there have been some questions about what would

0:47.6

libertarians do when faced with the outbreak of a disease like Ebola?

0:55.0

What, if anything, could libertarians do?

0:58.0

Would they just be sitting around so darn principled that they'd rather see the whole world drop dead than do anything about it?

1:05.0

Is that really true?

1:07.0

Well, joining us to talk about this today, of course, is Robert P. Murphy, economist Bob Murphy,

1:13.6

who is also an outstanding libertarian theorist, as you can see in his short book, Chaos Theory.

1:20.6

You all know, Bob, he is the author of the politically incorrect guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal,

1:26.6

as well as the politically incorrect guide to capitalism. Depression and the New Deal, as well as the politically

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