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Pete Boettke — Is a Better World Possible?
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Pete Boettke — Is a Better World Possible?

The Curious Task

March 16, 20221h 16m

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Show Notes

Economist Pete Boettke joins Alex to discuss the promise of liberalism in creating a better world. (This episode originally aired Aug 21, 2021.)

References

1. “The Struggle for a Better World” by Pete Boettke

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Better-World-Peter-Boettke/dp/1942951876 

2. “Hayek on the Role of Reason in Human Affairs” by Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Link: https://isi.org/hayek-on-the-role-of-reason-in-human-affairs/#:~:text=Hayek's%20argument%20is%20primarily%20directed,socially%20autonomous%20human%20reason%20capable 

3. Read more about Frederick Douglass and Lysander Spooner on Abolitionism 

Link: https://teachdemocracy.org/images/pdf/Abolitionists-and-the-Constitution.pdf 

4. “National Economic Planning: What is Left?” by Don Lavoy

Link: https://www.amazon.com/National-Economic-Planning-What-Left/dp/1942951264 

5. “Politically Impossible” by W.H. Hutt

Link: https://mises.org/library/book/politically-impossible 

6. “The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy” by Lionel Robbins

Link: https://mises.org/library/book/theory-economic-policy-english-classical-political-economy 

7. “Liberty’s Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution” by Emma Griffin

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Libertys-Dawn-Peoples-Industrial-Revolution/dp/0300205252 

8. “So Who is Carmen Segarra? A Fed Whistleblower Q&A” by Jake Bernstein

Link: https://www.propublica.org/article/so-who-is-carmen-segarra-a-fed-whistleblower-qa 

9. “Rothbard and the Nature of the State” by Matt Palmer

Link: https://mises.org/mises-daily/rothbard-and-nature-state 

10. “Libertarianism as Humanism: Remembering Steve Horwitz” by Trevor Burrus

Link: https://www.cato.org/blog/libertarianism-humanism-remembering-steve-horwitz