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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The host of Econtalk provides his take on our ep. 174 on The Wealth of Nations, and explores with us the idea of emergent economic order. Is the economy more like a machine or a garden or what?

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You're listening to the partial examine life, a podcast by some guys who at one point

0:50.0

sat on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it.

0:52.6

Our question for episode 177 is something like, how does economic order arise?

0:58.0

And we're talking with Russ Roberts, long time post of the great econ talk podcast in order to follow up on some issues we raised in our episode 174 on Adren Smith's 1776 book, The Wealth of Nations.

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This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin.

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This is Russ Roberts in Potomac, Maryland.

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Potomac, Maryland.

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I lived in anapolis for 11 years.

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