Ideas Having Sex

Episodes

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  62. Bryan Cheang - Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State 08.04.2025 1h 9m

  Bryan Cheang argues that industrial policy is authoritarian.
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  61. Bart Wilson - Meaningful Economics 04.03.2025 49m

  Bart Wilson on how to make economics more human.
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  60. Walker Hanlon - The Laissez-Faire Experiment 04.02.2025 44m

  Walker Hanlon explains the rise and fall of small government in Britain.
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  59. Michael Huemer - Progressive Myths 06.01.2025 1h 3m

  Michael Huemer explains and challenges progressive claims.
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  58. Bryan Caplan - Self Help is Like a Vaccine 02.12.2024 1h

  Bryan Caplan extols the virtues of self help.
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  57. Sheldon Richman - What Social Animals Owe to Each Other 07.10.2024 1h 14m

  Sheldon Richman makes the case for human freedom.
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  56. John Hasnas - Common Law Liberalism 02.09.2024 1h 19m

  John Hasnas describes the virtues and the beauty of the common law.
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  55. Johan Norberg - The Capitalist Manifesto 05.08.2024 1h 2m

  Johan Norberg advocates radical economic freedom.
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  54. James Otteson - Honorable Business 01.07.2024 1h 1m

  James Otteson claims that businesses behave honorably by creating mutually beneficial, and mutually voluntary deals.
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  53. Bryan Caplan - Build, Baby, Build 27.05.2024 1h 14m

  Bryan Caplan explains why housing costs are so high.
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  52. Chris Coyne - How to Run Wars 13.05.2024 1h 17m

  Chris Coyne gives a master class in how to energize a population for war.
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  51. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley - Superabundance 29.04.2024 1h 5m

  Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance.
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  50. Michael Huemer – Can We Know Anything? 15.04.2024 58m

  Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat.
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  49. Chandran Kukathas - Immigration and Freedom 01.04.2024 1h 6m

  Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens.
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  48. Jason Brennan – Democracy: A Guided Tour 18.03.2024 1h 8m

  Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy.
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  47. David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom 04.03.2024 1h 24m

  David Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism.
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  46. David Lawrence – Debunking Determinism 19.02.2024 1h 11m

  David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more.
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  45. Bryan Caplan - You Will Not Stampede Me 05.02.2024 1h 24m

  Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity.
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  44. Max Borders – Political Decentralization 22.01.2024

  Max Borders claims we don’t take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should.
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  43. James Tooley – Really Good Schools 07.11.2023

  James Tooley shows how the world’s poorest people educate their children without government.