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About the Guest Adam Vass Gal teaches economics at Belmont University, and has worked in financial services for 12 years. Book Discussed Generational Poverty: An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor Other Book by the Guest A Corrected Economic Republic Guest’s Twitter @AdamVassGal Special Offers If you enjoy the Tom Woods Show, my new book — Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion — is for you. Check it out! And get a free copy of the audiobook version, with me reading it, at TomWoodsAudio.com. Need inexpensive web hosting? Get a discounted rate at Bluehost — just $3.95 per month! — for TomWoods.com visitors by using this special link. Disclosure: Some of the links on this page, like the Amazon link above, are affiliate links, which means I earn a commission if you click through and buy something. So if you do, do so in the happy knowledge that at no extra cost to yourself, you are helping the Tom Woods Show!

About the Guest Stephen Halbrook is a lawyer known for his involvement in Second Amendment and gun control litigation, and is the author of numerous books on these subjects. Books by the Guest The Founders’ Second Amendment Gun Control in the Third Reich Guest’s Website StephenHalbrook.com Related Episodes Ep. 168: More Guns, Less Crime (John Lott) Ep. 85: The Real Second Amendment (Stephen Halbrook) Ep. 7: Guns 101 (Larry Pratt)

About the Guest Joe Quirk is a bestselling author and director of communications for the Seasteading Institute. Links The Seasteading Institute 8 Ways Seasteading Can Improve the World Plan for the first floating city by 2020 Architectural design contest Videos         Facebook The Seasteading Institute Twitter @seasteading

About the Guest Sean Gabb is director of the Libertarian Alliance, based in the U.K. He is the author of many books, including six historical novels under the name Richard Blake. He holds a Ph.D. in political and intellectual history from the University of Middlesex, and currently resides in Kent. Guest’s Websites SeanGabb.co.uk The Libertarian Alliance Guest’s Twitter @GabbSean Books by the Guest The Break Cultural Revolution, Culture War Special Offers I’ve just released a brand new, free eBook: 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians — Answered. Click here to get your copy! Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you, from professors you can trust and in courses you can listen to on the go at my Liberty Classroom. Plus live Q&A sessions, recommended readings, and more. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount.

About the Guest Joseph T. Salerno is academic vice president of the Mises Institute and a professor of economics at Pace University. Festschrift The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Joseph T. Salerno (PDF) Guest’s Book Money: Sound and Unsound Guest’s Twitter @jtsale Articles Mentioned “Nominal GDP Targeting: New-Fangled Monetarism or Old-Fashioned Keynesianism?” by Shawn Ritenour “A Simple Model of the Theory of Money Prices,” by Joseph T. Salerno Larry White on NGDP Targeting

About the Guest James R. Otteson is executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and Teaching Professor of Political Economy, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC, a Research Professor in the Freedom Center and Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in California. Professor Otteson was recently named the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics at Wake Forest University School of Business. Guest’s Websites JamesOtteson.com BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, at Wake Forest University Books by the Guest The End of Socialism What Adam Smith Knew: Moral Lessons on Capitalism from Its Greatest Champions and Fiercest Opponents Guest’s Twitter @jroii Related Episodes Ep. 337: The Fatal Errors of Socialism (James Otteson) Ep. 325: Are Corporations Un-Libertarian? (Stephan Kinsella) Ep. 119:

Host of This Event Mises Institute Related Article “What Austrian Economics Can Teach Historians,” by Tom Woods (Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 11. no. 3, 2008) Resource LearnAustrianEconomics.com Resource Page World War II and American Prosperity (smashes this myth) Special Offers Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you, from professors you can trust and in courses you can listen to on the go at my Liberty Classroom. Plus live Q&A sessions, recommended readings, and more. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount. Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). I am producing courses for this curriculum. Sign up through this link and I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just drop me a line once you’ve signed up and I’ll get it to you.

About the Guest Michael Strong is an author, a co-founder of Radical Social Entrepreneurs, and the founder of numerous Socratic, Montessori, and Paideia schools. Article Discussed “My Libertarian Vacation Nightmare: How Ayn Rand, Ron Paul and Their Groupies Were All Debunked,” by Edwin Lyngar Articles in Favor of Free Zones “The Blank Slate State,” by Brian Doherty “The Legal Autonomy of the Dubai International Financial Centre: A Scalable Strategy for Global Free-Market Reforms,” by Michael John Strong and Robert Himber Guest’s Book Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems Guest’s Website Radical Social Entrepreneurs Guest’s Blog The Purpose of Education Guest’s Twitter @flowidealism Special Offers If you enjoy the Tom Woods Show, my new book — Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion — is for you. Check it out! And get a free copy of the audiobook version, with me reading it, at TomWoodsAudio.com. Li

Article Discussed “The Keynesian Multiplier Concept Ignores Crucial Opportunity Costs,” by William J. Boyes Guest’s Website Center for the Study of Economic Liberty Related Episodes Ep. 118: Boom and Bust: The Cause (David Howden) Ep. 24: Keynes and His Errors (G.P. Manish) Special Offers Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you, from professors you can trust and in courses you can listen to on the go at my Liberty Classroom. Plus live Q&A sessions, recommended readings, and more. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount. Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). I am producing courses for this curriculum. Sign up through this linkand I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just drop me a line once you’ve signed up and I’ll get it to you.

Woods Book Mentioned The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (10th Anniversary Edition) Other Books Discussed Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt GET YOUR FREE AUDIOBOOK Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy, ed. Philip Booth (this book contains my essay on the living wage; click here to download a free PDF of the whole book) Related Episodes Ep. 179: The Late Scholastics: Christians for Freedom (Alejandro Chafuen) Ep. 54: Pope Francis on Capitalism Special Offers Need inexpensive web hosting? Get a discounted rate at Bluehost — just $3.95 per month! — for TomWoods.com visitors by using this special link. Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s K-12 homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). I produce courses for this curriculum. Sign up through this linkand I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just drop me a line once you’ve signed up and I’ll get it to you. Disclosure: Some

Topics Discussed The Industrial Revolution The New Deal Anttitrust Monopoly The Marshall Plan Host of This Event Mises Institute Book Mentioned Capitalism and the Historians, ed. F.A. Hayek Related Episodes Ep. 273: The Case Against Antitrust (Tom DiLorenzo) Ep. 248: One Year of the Tom Woods Show! Tom Takes on More Myths Ep. 237: Why Are We So Rich? (Deirdre McCloskey) Ep. 232: The Robber Barons and Monopoly Ep. 97: New Deal or Raw Deal? (Burton Folsom) Special Offers Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you, from professors you can trust and in courses you can listen to on the go at my Liberty Classroom. Plus live Q&A sessions, recommended readings, and more. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount. (This is not the same thing as the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum, on which more below.) Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). I am producing courses for this curriculum. Sign up through this link and I’ll

Are we making progress, holding steady, or retrogressing? Frank Karsten returns to make the case for libertarian optimism! About the Guest Frank Karsten is chairman of Mises Instituut Nederland and of the Stichting Meer Vrijheid (More Freedom Foundation), a Dutch libertarian organization which acts to reduce taxes and government intervention. Book Mentioned Beyond Democracy: Why Democracy Does Not Lead to Solidarity, Prosperity and Liberty But to Social Conflict, Runaway Spending and a Tyrannical Government, by Frank Karsten and Karel Beckman Project Mentioned Ron Paul Homeschool Curriculum Guest’s Website BeyondDemocracy.net Guest’s Twitter @FrankKarsten Books Recommended by the Guest The Ultimate Resource 2, by Julian Simon It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, by Stephen Moore The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjørn Lomborg In Defense of Global Capitalism, by Johan Norberg Related Episode Ep. 156: Against the Catastrophists (Robert Bryce) Special

Guest’s Website Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Guest’s Twitter @DanielLMcAdams @RonPaulInstitut Guest’s Facebook Ron Paul Institute Articles Mentioned “Netanyahu and the Crumbling Israeli Lobby,” by Jon Basil Utley “Factchecking Netanyahu: An Annotated Guide to the Israeli P.M.’s Speech to Congress” Video Series Mentioned Ron Paul Liberty Report (click here for a recent episode) Special Offers Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you, from professors you can trust and in courses you can listen to on the go at my Liberty Classroom. Plus live Q&A sessions, recommended readings, and more. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount. Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). I am producing courses for this curriculum. Sign up through this link and I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just drop me a line once you’ve signed up and I

Book Discussed Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America, by James Ostrowski Book Mentioned Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion, by Tom Woods GET YOUR FREE AUDIOBOOK Guest’s Website LibertyMovement.org Guest’s Twitter @JimOstrowski Special Offers Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you, from professors you can trust and in courses you can listen to on the go at my Liberty Classroom. Plus live Q&A sessions, recommended readings, and more. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount. Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). I am producing courses for this curriculum. Sign up through this linkand I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just drop me a line once you’ve signed up and I’ll get it to you.

What’s wrong with “net neutrality”? Economist Peter Klein joins us to discuss the bad economics behind this fashionable idea. Articles Mentioned “Government Did Invent the Internet, but the Market Made It Glorious,” by Peter G. Klein “The Myth of Natural Monopoly,” by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (PDF) Episodes Mentioned Ep. 91: No, Marx Was Wrong (Peter Klein) Ep. 90: Was Marx Right? (Peter Klein) Related Episodes Ep. 333: Could There Have Been an Internet without the State? (Richard Bennett) Ep. 174: Net Neutrality: A Libertarian View (Berin Szoka) Guest’s Facebook Professor Peter G. Klein Guest’s Twitter @PeterGKlein Guest’s Professional Page Peter G. Klein Guest’s Blog Organizations and Markets Special Offers I’ve just released another free eBook: 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians — Answered. Click here to get your copy! Like the new TomWoods.com? It was designed by my friends at Studio 1 Design. They’ve agreed to give my listeners 10% off any design projectthrough this special link.

Host of This Event Mises Institute Book Discussed Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama, by Tom Woods and Kevin Gutzman Other Books Mentioned 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, by Tom Woods The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Tom Woods (also available as an audiobook) GET YOUR FREE AUDIOBOOK Related Episode Ep. 89: The Supreme Court and the 3×5 Card (Kevin Gutzman) Special Offers Get my FREE eBook, 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians — Answered! We now have 12 courses at LibertyClassroom.com! Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you, from professors you can trust and in courses you can listen to anywhere. Take 30% off a year’s subscription with coupon code SHOW (all caps).

Murray Rothbard was so productive that new books of his continued to appear even after his death. I had the privilege of writing the introduction to one of them, and I discuss it in today’s episode. Book Discussed The Betrayal of the American Right, by Murray N. Rothbard (edited with an introduction by Tom Woods) Introduction Click here to read my introduction to this book. Articles Mentioned “A Strategy for the Right,” by Murray N. Rothbard (my own introduction to Rothbard’s work) “Rothbard’s Time on the Left,” by John Payne (PDF) Related Episodes Ep. 242: Murray Rothbard: His Life and Work (Lew Rockwell) Ep. 41: How Murray Rothbard Changed My Mind on War Special Offers I’ve just released a brand new, free eBook: 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians — Answered. Click here to get your copy! Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s K-12 homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). I produce courses for this curriculum. Sign up through this link and I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the fo

Guest’s Websites FairDUI.org WRedlich.com Guest’s Book Fair DUI: Stay Safe and Sane in a World Gone MADD Video Mentioned     Guest’s Facebook Fair DUI Guest’s Twitter @TrafficCourt Related Episode Ep. 5: The DUI Racket (Warren Redlich) Special Offers I’ve just released a brand new, free eBook: 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians — Answered. Click here to get your copy! Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). Sign up through this link and I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just drop me a line once you’ve signed up and I’ll get it to you.

Issues Discussed Tesla: crony capitalism? What’s the $9800 car we’re not allowed to buy? Can I build my own car to avoid government regulation? What about private highways? How often does a modern car need an oil change? What are some areas of car maintenance most people neglect? What kind of damage does ethanol do? Why do labor and supplies at the dealership cost more than at a third-party provider? Guest’s Website EPAutos.com Guest’s Twitter @LibertarianCarG Articles Mentioned “The Fumes of the Founding” “GM’s $9800 Car…The One We’re Not Allowed to Buy” “Neglected Maintenance” “Machine Gunning a Tesla” Related Episodes Ep. 259: Cars, Government Regulation, and More (Eric Peters) Ep. 241: Government and Your Car (Eric Peters) Special Offers Get the Kindle edition of my new book Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion as one of the large number of perks you get as a Supporting Listener of the show! Learn the history and economics they didn’t teach you

Book Discussed Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse, by Tom Woods GET YOUR FREE AUDIOBOOK Ron Paul’s Foreword Click here to read Ron Paul’s foreword to Meltdown. Related Episodes Ep. 271: The Truth About the Crash of ’08 Ep. 118: Boom and Bust: The Cause (David Howden) Special Offers Like the new TomWoods.com? It was designed by my friends at Studio 1 Design. They’ve agreed to give my listeners 10% off any design project through this special link. I’ve just released a brand new, free eBook: 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians — Answered. Click here to get your copy!