Episode · EconTalk · 2019-12-16
Books mentioned on Binyamin Appelbaum on the Economists' Hour
Journalist and author Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times talks about his book, The Economists' Hour, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Appelbaum blames the triumph of free-market ideology for the rise in inequality and the decline in growth rates over the last half-century.
Russ Roberts discussed Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Capitalism and freedom
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman is a foundational economic text arguing for the preeminence of competitive capitalism and limited government intervention as prerequisites for individual liberty.
Discussed“when I interviewed don't refer you've been in 2006 and we talked about his book capitalism freed and freedom which you talk about in in some detail in the book”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Economists' Hour
“he is the author of The Economist's our false prophets free markets in the fracture of society”