Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and we're

gonna get into some fundamentals on today's show gang. What are prices? What is the essence of them and how seriously can we monkey with

them? Now don't worry. To make it easier to digest, I tracked down and

captured a British person. This episode was recorded in Washington DC, wherein I drove to a think tank and cornered an was consider that today's episode was partly a hostage scenario in addition to an

economics lesson. Actually turned up pretty well and I think you'll agree.

Enjoy!

My guest today is Ryan Enjoy.

My guest today is Ryan Bourne.

He is the former head of public policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs in the United

Kingdom and an economist at the Cato Institute.

And for our purposes today is the editor and a

contributing author of the new book The War on Prices which you can find wherever you get

books whether it be the Cato gift shop or Amazon but you can also make it easy on yourself by going

to mighty heaten.com slash featured where you'll find that book as well as all of the other

books that we discuss on this program. Hello Ryan. Great to be with you Andrew. I'm thrilled to talk to you.

I love discussing economics with British people.

This is one of my hobbies that I've been doing for several years now.

We're the world's experts.

Uh-huh, yes, that's right.

And on top of that, like, this is something that I think is, what prices are

is foundational to economics. I don't think it's actually that controversial, if I'm not mistaken.

I am dressed like an economist and I'm told

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