Thomas Sowell Is Worse Than I Thought
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 Published On Mar 13, 2024

Wow, and it's only part one! How long can UE go on for?

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
12:32 Economics and Scarcity
33:31 I Need a Car Park
54:09 How Markets Work (and Fail)
1:11:23 Market Failures: Monopoly
1:27:16 Central Planning Was Bad, But...
1:33:39 The Emergence of Capitalism
1:57:37 Return of the Polanyi
2:20:30 Markets as Sites of Governance

References (in rough order of appearance):
   • Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economi...  
   • Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Sens...  
Knowledge and Decisions, Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
Applied Economics, Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Is the Left’s Worst Fear, Hannah Gal https://www.lotuseaters.com/thomas-so...
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith
Defining Economics: The Long Road to Acceptance of the Robbins Definition, Backhouse and Medema
   • Full Documentary. The Men of Fifth Wo...  
Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis
Price Behavior in Ancient Babylon, Peter Temin
The Treasures of Alexander the Great, Frank Holt
Economic View: The American Middle, Just Getting By, Louis Uchitelle https://archive.md/pAXMV
On Human Needs, Kate Soper
   • Milton Friedman on Donahue 1979 (1/5)  
   • No Way Home Was Kind of Sexist  
What's wrong with Libertarianism, Jeffrey Friedman
The Hidden Costs of Containerization, Amir Khafagy https://prospect.org/economy/hidden-c...
Marc Levinson on Odd Lots: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The Inflation-Fighting Bill You Don’t Know About, David Dyen
https://prospect.org/economy/inflatio...
Blame Government, Not COVID-19, for Supply Chain Collapse, Peter St. Onge https://www.heritage.org/transportati...
We Were Warned About the Ports, Alexander Sammon
https://prospect.org/economy/we-were-...
Container ship crashes in Suez Canal, Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...
The turning point: revitalizing the Soviet economy, Schmelev and Popov
   • Thomas Sowell -- Basic Economics  
The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi
Why We Need the Welfare State, Matt Bruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/...
The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, Yergin and Stainslaw
The triumph of Thomas Sowell, John Steele Gordon
The Globalisation Paradix, Dani Rodrik
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-lati...
Odd Borders Appear in Russia As Regions Face Poor Harvests, Andrew Higgins https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB908424...
Russian Farmland Withers on the Vin, Frank Viviano https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/r...
   • Dr Ha-Joon Chang - on Free Markets  
https://www.tiktok.com/@planetmoney/v...
Antitrust as allocator of coordination rights, Sanjukta Paul
Competition Law as Collective Bargaining Law, Tankus and Herrine
Economics: A User’s Guide, Ha-Joon Chang

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