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Episode 249: Listener Questions, pt. 1

Season 1 Episode 249

This week, we answer listener questions that cover a gamut of topics. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now!

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Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Episode 248: The Nobel Prize and the Minimum Wage

Season 1 Episode 248

David Card recently won the Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to the study of labor markets and natural experiments. Some minimum wage proponents confuse these excellent contributions wi…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Episode 247: Pachyderms, Property, and Profit

Season 1 Episode 247

The combination of property rights and a profit incentive yields good outcomes. Elephants provide an excellent example.

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Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Episode 246: The Link Between Politics and Economics

Season 1 Episode 246

Politics, not partisanship, and economics are linked because both emerge from humans attempting to employ their abilities to satisfy their needs. In this episode, we explore the connection.

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Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Episode 245: Should We Fund Children or Institutions?

Season 1 Episode 245

Corey DeAngelis, who has made himself the public gadfly of teachers unions, joins us to talk about how Americans’ attitudes about funding public schools changed with covid.

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Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Episode 244: The Nature of Exchange, Pt.2

Season 1 Episode 244

Money is an excellent tool for facilitating exchange. It solves problems like how to save while avoiding spoilage and how to exchange with people who don’t want what you’re offering. But we’ve come t…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Episode 243: The Nature of Exchange, Pt.1

Season 1 Episode 243

Money is an excellent tool for facilitating exchange. It solves problems like how to save while avoiding spoilage and how to exchange with people who don’t want what you’re offering. But we’ve come t…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Episode 242: What About Unions

Season 1 Episode 242

People who are pro-market often complain about unions. But unions are associations of people, just as corporations are associations of people. If it is people’s right to form one, then it is also the…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Episode 241: The Death Tax for the Rest of Us

Season 1 Episode 241

As politicians run out of revenue sources, they increasingly turn their attention from the rich to the middle class. Congress is considering a tax plan that effectively imposes a death tax on the mid…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

Episode 240: Potluck #1

Season 1 Episode 240

This episode is a potluck. There's no specific topic, we're just discussing things in the news that caught our interests.

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Published on 4 years, 3 months ago