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Ep. 864 The Bogus Public Goods Rationale for Government

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We’re told we need government because only the public sector can give us “public goods,” which are either impossible to produce privately or are produced in the wrong quantities. In this lesson from my Ron Paul Curriculum course on government I put this claim under a microscope.

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Related Episodes

Ep. 130 The Fallacies of ‘Public Goods’ (Jeff Herbener)
Ep. 94 Public Goods, Private Communities (Fred Foldvary)

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