Gene Epstein joins me to respond to Bhaskar Sunkara’s new book The Socialist Manifesto.
Book Discussed
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, by Bhaskar Sunkara
Debate Mentioned
Guest’s Debating Society
Guest’s Book
Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers
Guest’s Twitter
Previous Appearances
Ep. 1249 Continually Mistaken, Chronically Admired: The Strange Case of an Establishment Economist
Ep. 1232 Are Workers Getting Shafted?
Ep. 1188 Just When You Thought We’d Smashed the Schools Good, Along Comes Gene Epstein
Ep. 1131 DEBATE EPISODE: Trump’s Tariffs, Pro and Con (Gene Epstein and Dan McCarthy)
Ep. 1089 Noam Chomsky: The Good and the Bad
Ep. 1063 Nat Turner’s Rebellion: Why a Historical Novel Was So Controversial
Ep. 1021 The Nobel Prize and Behavioral Economics: Anything Here for Austrians?
Ep. 983 Can We Really Measure the “Happiest” Countries?
Ep. 921 The Long History of Presidential Stupidity in Economics
Ep. 891 Fiscal Doomsday: When It’s Coming and What It Looks Like
Ep. 822 The Work of Thomas Sowell: An Appreciation
Ep. 728 Can Libertarians Make a Decent Case for Free Trade?
Ep. 704 Adam Smith, Not the Founder of Economic Science
Ep. 634 The Economic Freedom of the World: What the Numbers Tell Us
Ep. 473 Does the Economy Do Better Under the Democrats, and Has Obama Been Better Than Reagan?
Ep. 462 We Found a Major Flaw in the Egalitarian Argument
Ep. 450 Noam Chomsky Led Me to Libertarianism, Says Guest
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