The Tom Woods Show, episode 820.

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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Check him out at tom's freebooks.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Talking to Don Boudreau today. He's a

professor of economics at George Mason University.

He writes a lot of book reviews for Gene Epstein, our friend, and he's had a bunch that I think are

interesting to the point where I thought it would be an interesting episode to go through

several of them in one episode and dig out some interesting ideas. And usually the ideas

are critical ones criticizing these books. But I think you can learn a lot from Don's

criticisms of some of these, unfortunately quite common ideas, the ideas that you find

in these popular books that he has reviewed. Don, welcome back to the show.

Happy to be here, Tom. Gene Epstein is a big, big, Don Budrow fan. He sent me an email not long ago saying,

because he's book review editor and economics editor at Barron's, of course, and a frequent guest on this show.

And he said,

this Boudreau guy just keep sending me excellent, outstanding reviews of oftentimes terrible economics books. And I think his reviews might be food for thought and interesting conversation

fodder for your show. So I looked at them and I thought, yes, that is an absolute

definite. So there are four titles that I'd like to hit on in lightning round fashion here.

The first one, published by Princeton University Press, is called Fishing for Fools, Fishing

and Fools with a pH. Tell me who the authors of this book are, why they matter,

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