The "Free" Market?
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Mary Trump Media
4.8 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Historian of Science and Tech and co-author of the book: The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market,Erik M. Conway, joins democracyish and takes Waj and Danielle on a journey to how the business lobby destroyed our concept of government for and by the people. It's a BIG episode folks!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy-ish. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Danielle Moody. |
| 0:13.6 | And we are very excited to be joined today by historian of science and tech, Eric Conway, and co-author of the book, |
| 0:25.8 | The Big Myth, How American Business taught us to loathe government and love the free market, |
| 0:32.4 | as well as author of The Merchants of Doubt, which, by the way, love that. Love the play on the merchants. |
| 0:39.9 | So now I will turn it over to Wage to do our now infamous movie phone intro. |
| 0:47.3 | Eric M. Conway is a historian of science and technology employed by the California Institute of |
| 0:52.6 | Technology. |
| 0:53.1 | He recently received a NASA History Award for, quote, |
| 0:56.6 | path-breaking contributions to space history, ranging from aeronautics to Earth and Space |
| 1:02.2 | Sciences. |
| 1:02.8 | And he is an AIA History Manuscript Award winner for his fourth book, |
| 1:09.4 | Atmospheric Science at NASA, a history. |
| 1:13.2 | Eric, welcome. |
| 1:14.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:16.6 | That's why I do this, by the way, as Daniel knows. |
| 1:20.8 | Just to just to flex with that movie phone voice. |
| 1:24.1 | Thank you for the book, The Big Myth. |
| 1:27.3 | We wish we had your co-author here as well, |
| 1:29.8 | but you, sir, will suffice with the brilliance for both. It's an important book, and it's a book |
| 1:36.5 | that I think connects the dots for so many because I had no idea how this myth of the free market was actually created by the business lobby. |
| 1:47.4 | And you all take us on this journey, right? And I want to start off with this chapter that you have |
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