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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Andrew Carnegie is the subject of our episode today, as I

mentioned the other day. And joining us to talk about Andrew Carnegie,

a controversial figure in American economic history, is Sam Bostaff. Samuel Bostaff is retired.

He's Professor Emeritus at the University of Dallas, where he served as the chairman of the Department

of Economics. And he has a brand new book called Andrew Carnegie,

An Economic Biography. Of course, you can expect to see it linked at tomwoods.com slash 639.

Sam, welcome to the show. Thank you, Tom. I'm glad to be here.

It's been quite a while since I've seen or spoken to you. And then this book of

yours I just told people about on Andrew Carnegie came out. And as I was looking through it,

I noted that I forgot I was actually on the advisory board for the book series. This is a part of.

Well, they didn't ask my advice, as it turns up, but if they had,

I would have told them to go ahead and publish this. I really like it. What made you think

to choose Andrew Carnegie in particular as somebody to take a closer look at?

Well, it's one of those serendipity things. A few years ago in the summer, I was working on another paper, and my phone rang,

and it was an acquisition editor for a West Coast publishing house, and he didn't really

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