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Interchange – Freedom to Exit (Original Air Date: January 23, 2018)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:04 — 43.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is, rather mischievously, “Snowflakes and Sunshine,” from the Ornette Coleman Trio, live in Stockholm in 1965…they got there before the neoliberal economists. Last week’s show with Rob Larson on the Intellectual opportunism of libertarians who sing holy praise to Capitalism pointed out the ways in …

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Interchange – Freedom to Exit: The Libertarian Use of Market Ideology

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:59 — 43.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we discuss the ideology of market egalitarianism and versions of libertarianism from the Levellers in 17th century England through Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” and Tom Paine’s Rights of Man and on to Lincoln’s political argument to poor whites that wage labor was slave labor and a …

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