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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 979 Liechtenstein: The Closest Thing to a Libertarian Country?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The small country of Liechtenstein is run by Prince Hans-Adam II, who is a friend and correspondent of the libertarian economist and philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe. In today's episode we tell the untold story about this extraordinary place.

Show notes for Ep. 979

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 979.

0:03.4

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0:14.1

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0:40.2

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Here's an episode a bit off the beaten path. We're going to talk

0:44.0

today about Liechtenstein, a very, very small country, certainly population-wise, but a very,

0:51.2

very interesting country, as I think you'll agree after you hear this conversation, just because of, well, a lot of things, economic liberty, the usual sorts of things.

1:01.4

But I don't want to give it away.

1:03.8

When you hear the political ideas of the monarch, you're going to be shocked.

1:10.0

It's the closest thing you've ever had to a libertarian ruler.

1:15.6

And you say, Woods, I don't believe you.

1:17.4

Well, hang on.

1:18.0

Just wait a minute because it's a very, very interesting topic.

1:22.6

And joining us to talk about it is Andreas Cole, who is the director of the Self-Determination Institute, which he's

1:30.6

just getting started. He's also a council member at the Foundation for the Advancement of Liberty

1:36.1

or fundalib.org. And if you'd like to visit that in English, it would be F-U-N-D-A-L-I-B-org

1:43.4

slash E-N. It's located in Spain. And let's see, we'll have

1:48.2

his Twitter. So if you can tweet out to him, what a great guy he is if you like. We'll have a bunch

1:52.5

of interesting things at tomwoods.com slash 979. Andreas, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for

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