Our 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 which actually existing capitalism keeps most of us in chains; and that those …
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In his new book Capitalism vs. Freedom, Rob Larson goes after the high priests of Capitalism, those deep thinkers such as Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand. But more directly and pointedly, Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize Winning economist, and debate society pugilist who did the heavy PR work for Reagan era deregulation and who offered the Right …
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Next time on Interchange, For Love of Money: or Libertarian Intellectuals. In his new book, Capitalism Vs Freedom, Rob Larson puts on display the words of such deep thinkers as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand in order to expose them as simply a defense of cruel power systems. Intellectuals such as these once supported slavery, the …
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