Tom talks to Germinal G. Van about the period of American history that historians treat cartoonishly, with wicked businessmen allegedly exploiting everyone. Sponsor Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in… Read More
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Ep. 232 The Robber Barons and Monopoly
Tom separates fact from fiction.
Beware the Robber Barons, and More Tales of Capitalism
9 Falsehoods the Lizard People Ram Down Our Throats
I thought of these in about ten seconds. That means there are way, way more than nine. How many of these can you smash until the pieces are particles of… Read More
Ep. 1121 The Mundane Truth About the Sherman Antitrust Act
Here’s how we learn about so-called landmark legislation in school: your wise public servants identified a problem, and then put their heads together in a disinterested, dispassionate way to solve… Read More
Ep. 467 The Truth About Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, and Other Myths Refuted
Larry Reed joins us once again to discuss common myths and misconceptions about the free society: Sinclair’s The Jungle, state education, Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, and more! About the… Read More
Ep. 413 Salon Says Rich Are Parasites; We Dissent
Peter Klein and I critique a recent Salon article containing just about every leftist cliche about the rich ever uttered. About the Guest Peter G. Klein is the Carl Menger… Read More
Ep. 412 What I Told the Eleventh Graders About Liberty
For the third year in a row, I was asked to speak on classical liberalism (libertarianism) to the 11th graders in my kids’ school, in their Great Ideas course. Video… Read More
Ep. 355 Was the Industrial Revolution a Catastrophe for Workers? And Other Economic Topics
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… Read More
‘Uber Must Be Stopped!’
So says Andrew Leonard at Salon , who takes the opportunity to repeat every seventh-grade scare tactic about ‘monopoly’ that later research has refuted–on predatory pricing and on the so-called robber barons. Oooh, Rockefeller… Read More
