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This is the Tom Hartman program.

On the line with us Naomi Areska's professor of history of science at Harvard University,

co-author with Eric Conway of the Big Myth, a new book how American business

taught us to load government and love the free market, a brilliant piece of work.

Naomi Areska's O-R-E-S-K-E-S on Twitter, and of course the book is available wherever you find

fine books, their previous book is merchants of doubt, by the way, which we've talked about on this

program. Naomi, welcome to the program. Tell us about how corporate America first, when, at what point in

time, did corporate America first start this laissez-faire neoliberal Friedman and Hayek type of

sales pitch? Did it precede the meetings in Switzerland in the 1936 meeting in France?

Yes, our book covers more than 100 years of history. What we show in the book is that the

construction of the myth of the magic of the marketplace actually begins in the early 20th century,

and the book you were just talking about a minute ago was a good leading to ours.

In the late 19th century, American capitalism was repacious.

The free market had actually led to the destruction of competition and the rise of

giant monopolies and trusts, and it had also led to massive exploitation of workers, including

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