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Did Keynes Save Capitalism? (Open College podcast)

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Or was he opposed to capitalism on principle? My 32-minute podcast discussion. Available at various listening sources: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/opencollege… Bitchute http://www.bitchute.com/opencollegepo… Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/o… SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepod… Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/poss… Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Iuram… Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2qgnmMD…

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Marx’s labor theory of value — Böhm-Bawerk’s rejection

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The economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk arguing, in the 1890s, against the beloved-by-Marxists labor theory of value: “Value and effort, as I have stated at length in another place, are not ideas so intimately connected that one is forced immediately to adopt the view that effort is the basis of value. ‘That I have toiled over

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Quem trata seriamente dos monopólios?

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[A translation by Matheus Pacini and Vinicius Cintra into Portuguese of my “Who Is Really Serious About Monopolies?”] Levante o tópico dos monopólios, e a discussão resultante rapidamente evidenciará deficiências ideológicas. Um colega com quem lecionei nas áreas de negócios e capitalismo enviou-me, de forma entusiasmada, esse artigo escrito por Paul Krugman, um economista vencedor

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Does capitalism lead to a monopoly economy?

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Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks was published at The Foundation for Economic Education. Grégoire Canlorbe, a French intellectual entrepreneur residing in Paris conducted the interview. An excerpt follows. Grégoire Canlorbe: According to a popular opinion, left to its own devices, capitalism inevitably tends to a monopoly economy — an economy in

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Conservatives Are *Not* Free-market Capitalists [Open College series]

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The third episode in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes. Soundcloud. Stitcher. YouTube. Topics and times: Conceptual clarification: “conservative,” “revolutionary,” “liberal” // Donald Trump versus Charles Koch // Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, Russell Kirk, Pat Buchanan, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn // Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Ayn Rand // Why

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