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🗓️ 29 August 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Author Chase Rachels joins me to discuss some of the hard cases -- education, roads (of course!), and even security -- when it comes to imagining how society without a state might work.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 725. |
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0:33.6 | Hello everybody, Tom Woods here. This is one of these episodes where I'm going to take those of you who are, let's say, not full-fledged Rothbardians just yet, and challenge your thinking a little bit. |
0:44.1 | Oh, we need the state for X, Y, and Z. Well, maybe not. At least, at the very least, it's a useful intellectual exercise to think through alternatives. |
1:12.3 | And joining me to do that is Chase Rachel's, who is the author of a new-ish book. It's my own fault for not getting to it sooner. It's called A Spontaneous Order, the Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society. Linking to it, of course, at tomwoods.com slash 725. |
1:14.1 | Chase, welcome to the show. |
1:15.2 | Thank you, Tom. |
1:16.1 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
1:19.2 | You got a pretty good book here, I think. |
1:20.1 | It's nice. |
1:21.4 | It's compact. |
1:23.0 | It packs a punch. |
1:25.3 | It covers a wide array of topics. |
1:29.9 | And it's done the way I like books to be done, in that there's no fluff. You seem to have exactly the same philosophy of books that I have. No fluff, |
1:36.5 | no filler, it's just every page is packed with information and arguments that you can use. That's |
1:42.2 | what I like. That's what I like. I've read so many |
1:44.4 | celebrity style books where it's all fluff and speeches and I learned two things. And one of them |
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