This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, September 8th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The supply side of government power is important to study, but what about the demand side?

Tom Palmer is editor of the new book,

Self-controlled or State Control, You Decide,

available in a variety of formats for free

at atlas network.org. We spoke yesterday.

Thinking about the question of liberty and how we maintain it, advance it,

it occurred to me that we have lived in a culture in which the let's say

broadly intellectual class has has denigrated personal responsibility for a very

very long time this has been going on for over a hundred years.

No one's really responsible. There are social forces that explain everything.

And one of the consequences of that is the loss of personal freedom as well,

because if you're not responsible for your actions

then someone else has to pick up the mess and that means it generates incentives for controls.

And in order to address this increase in state power, the Nanny State, the welfare

state, the prohibitionist state, it occurred to me that we need to reinforce the relationship between personal freedom and

responsibility and that connection I label self-control. That's the connection

between being a responsible person and being a free person.

So this book looks at both sides and we're used to hearing about the supply side of state power, but we're not used to hearing about the demand side.

So can you break those out a little bit?

Well, classical liberals or libertarians of people who have been concerned about excessive state power

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