Ep. 955 Genoa: A Forgotten History of Liberty, Growth, and Entrepreneurship
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode reaches back into history to the overlooked example of Genoa, where we discover the late medieval origins of entrepreneurial skills and institutions that formed the springboard for early modern economic development. The forgotten republican tradition of Genoa, moreover, poses an interesting alternative to the militarist and statist views of Machiavelli.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 955. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.2 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:32.6 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:33.8 | We're talking history today, probably some unknown history, at least for a great many of you. |
| 0:39.2 | We're talking about Genoa in particular, and the history of Genoa institutionally and intellectually. |
| 0:45.3 | And it turns out that this is actually an interesting story from a libertarian perspective. |
| 0:50.1 | And joining us to tell it is Matteo Salonia, who up till recently anyway, taught at the University of Liverpool. |
| 0:58.4 | He will talk more about what he's up to these days. |
| 1:02.2 | He received his Ph.D. there in history. He did his undergraduate work here in the United States at Fordham University. |
| 1:09.5 | And I'm going to be linking to his book, |
| 1:11.7 | Genoa's Freedom, Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic over at Tom Woods.com |
| 1:18.7 | slash 955. Matayo, welcome to the show. |
| 1:22.0 | Thank you, Tom. It's a pleasure to be here. In fact, it's a honor. I'm a big fan of yours and of all your |
| 1:26.7 | work. Well, that's wonderful to hear. I appreciate that. I like your study a lot. And interestingly, |
| 1:32.4 | we've both published with this publisher Lexington books and they're all wonderful people. |
| 1:37.6 | Yes. Genoa's Freedom. So tell me what's so special about Genoa that you would focus on |
| 1:43.6 | it rather than some other Italian story? |
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