Episode · The Tucker Carlson Show · 2025-05-16
Books mentioned on Oren Cass: How Trump’s Tariffs Are Reversing the Foreign Policy That Doomed America’s Economy
The point of the postwar global economic order was never to help the United States, says economist Oren Cass, and in the end it didn’t. Thankfully Trump just blew it up.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Free to Choose
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman is a seminal economics and public policy book co-authored by Milton and Rose Friedman that champions free-market capitalism and individual liberty.
Discussed“You know, you had these folks like Milton Freriedman as a classic example of someone who was sort of making this very public case that literally his his best work is called free to choose, right?”
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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a foundational 1776 text in classical economics by the Scottish thinker widely seen as the father of modern economics, exploring the mechanics of free markets, national productivity, and division of labor.
Discussed“Adam Smith, the you know father of capitalism had this idea of the invisible hand which if you go back and look at what he was actually talking about what he was describing it like literally in the paragraph where he writes about the invisible hand he has all these requirements...”
