Ep. 821 Learn Economics from the Master -- Painlessly
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Shawn Ritenour, a professor of economics at Grove City College, has just filled a very important gap: until now, it's been hard to find a really good book for people to get started reading Ludwig von Mises, the great economist. I personally felt his introductory texts were too introductory, while his treatises were too intimidating. With The Mises Reader, this problem is solved. In this episode we discuss Mises on economic method, Keynes and Keynesianism, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 821. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey, everybody, I've got some free e-books for you to help you answer some of the most common |
| 0:18.3 | objections to libertarianism. |
| 0:20.3 | One of them is 14 hard |
| 0:21.9 | questions for libertarians answered, then Bernie Sanders is wrong, then education without the state, |
| 0:29.0 | and more to come. Check him out at tom's freebooks.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Sean Rittenauer is back |
| 0:35.9 | with us after a really, really long time. |
| 0:39.2 | And it's a great time to be talking to Sean because he just released a wonderful edited |
| 0:44.2 | volume called The Meese's Reader. |
| 0:47.7 | Of course, it's a collection of writings by Ludwig von Mezes, the great 20th century economist. |
| 0:53.3 | And as I'm about to point out, when I start |
| 0:56.3 | talking to him, this fills a very, very important gap. This is a great book, and you can get it for |
| 1:02.6 | free. You can check it out at tomwoods.com slash 821. Sean, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:10.1 | Oh, well, thank you so much, Tom. It's just always great to be with you. All right, well, to the show. Well, thank you so much, Tom. |
| 1:11.5 | It's just always great to be with you. |
| 1:14.0 | All right. |
| 1:14.2 | Well, listen to me. |
| 1:15.0 | This book here, the Meese's reader, it fills a huge gap. |
| 1:21.2 | I have always said that I don't really know what to recommend people to read by Meez's |
| 1:26.9 | because either human action is too |
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