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Why Not Capitalism?
FromFree Thoughts
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jun 23, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
This week Jason Brennan joins Aaron and Trevor to discuss his newest book, Why Not Capitalism?, which is a response to G. A. Cohen’s 2009 book Why Not Socialism? Brennan says that Cohen commits the fallacy of comparing idealized socialism with perfect actors to real markets with imperfect actors, and offers an illustrative example as proof that when comparing idealized capitalism to idealized socialism and real capitalism to real socialism, it is capitalism—not socialism—that claims the moral high ground.Is there anything to the argument that “socialism would work if we were just better people” and had perfect information? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Jun 23, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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