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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 707 How the Warfare State Deforms the Economy

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

There are all kinds of ways militarism and even the preparation for war can deform the economy, and many of these are easy to miss. I go through a bunch of them in this talk delivered at the 2016 Mises University program, hosted by the Mises Institute.

Show notes for Ep. 707

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 707.

0:03.3

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0:08.0

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0:14.1

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0:52.8

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0:56.7

Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:57.9

Still under the weather.

0:59.6

I don't know if you can tell from my voice or not,

1:01.5

but anyway, I'm hanging in there all right, though.

1:03.9

And I thought I would share with you a talk I gave at the Mises University,

1:08.6

which is the week-long summer instructional program put on by the Mezes Institute.

1:13.0

Meeses.org is their website.

1:15.5

Link to at the show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 707.

1:19.3

And in this talk, I discussed war, but in particular I talked about the economic effects, even of the preparation for war, of the military state itself.

1:30.1

And very, very briefly toward the end, I addressed the old war makes us prosperous argument.

1:35.4

There's more to be said about that than I said in this talk.

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