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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 470 Debate, Murphy vs. Block: May Libertarians Accept Government Money?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Should libertarians ever take government funds? Another question that divides the libertarian world. Two show regulars are here for another exciting debate!

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The Tom Woods Show, episode 470.

0:03.7

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0:08.3

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:33.5

What a great episode this is going to be.

0:36.4

Ah, such fun. Another debate this time between Walter

0:40.5

Block and Bob Murphy, two favorite guests of the show, two top libertarian theorists, two good

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friends, but they have got a serious difference of opinion on this question of whether it's

0:53.3

legitimate for libertarians to accept

0:55.5

government money. We talked about this in an episode featuring just Walter some time ago.

1:01.4

Of course, I'll link to that at tomwoods.com slash 470, which is today's show notes page.

1:07.6

But today, Bob Murphy is going to have his say. We're going to have a great back and forth.

1:11.6

It's going to be a lot of fun. Both Bob and Walter can be found in my free e-book, 14 hard

1:18.4

questions for libertarians answered. Get that free e-book by texting the word liberty to 33444.

1:26.9

Well, you know both of these gentlemen, chances are. Walter Block, of course,

1:30.8

is Professor of Economics. He's a distinguished endowed chair of economics at Loyola University,

1:38.0

New Orleans. He's the author of a great many books, most famously defending the undefendable,

1:43.3

and nearly 500 peer-reviewed scholarly articles.

1:49.0

Bob Murphy, of course, blogs at Consultingbyrpm.com.

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