The standard historical accounts get a great many economic issues all wrong. In this episode I review a bunch of the most common ones, and supply the free-market answer.
Topics Discussed
- The Industrial Revolution
- The New Deal
- Antitrust
- Monopoly
- The Marshall Plan
Host of This Event
Book Mentioned
Capitalism and the Historians, ed. F.A. Hayek
Related Episodes
Ep. 273: The Case Against Antitrust (Tom DiLorenzo)
Ep. 248: One Year of the Tom Woods Show! Tom Takes on More Myths
Ep. 237: Why Are We So Rich? (Deirdre McCloskey)
Ep. 232: The Robber Barons and Monopoly
Ep. 97: New Deal or Raw Deal? (Burton Folsom)
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