The Tom Woods Show, episode 477.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I am doing the episode all by myself. Today I get a lot of requests

for this. Do an episode by yourself. To heck with a guest.

So do, do, here I am doing it. And what I thought I do today is introduce you to the thought

of one of the people who has done so much to advance my own understanding of the world and to get me

to where I am now in terms of my own thinking. And that is Hans Herman Hoppa. H-O-P-P-E is the last name.

And for a great many of you listening, you'll say, ah, Hans Hoppa, he's a great guy. And others of you will

say, I have no idea who that guy is. Well, both of you are in for a treat today because I bet even the ones of

you who are familiar with Hans may not know about the particular work I'm going to discuss with

you today. It's a great example of Hans's work because what I'm going to share with you is a piece

in which he starts off with barter, with just people exchanging one good directly for another good without

the intermediary of money. And then step by step, he takes you through why we would expect

the state to pervert the monetary order that exists spontaneously in the natural order

of the free market.

And what we would expect the state, just logically, to replace it with, and the steps we

would expect the state to take in replacing it in that way.

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