Are You Getting Tough With This Business?

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I think that businesses need certainty about the rules, but a reasonable amount of certainty- Sure. ... is a very, very sorry. I mean, again, what I say is that, you know, alarming is not so much the lack of absolute certainty, but just the substantial increase in the probability that something like this will happen. This is sort of an anti-Austrian point that I'll- Great. ... That I'll- ... that I'll - go ahead.

Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two books: Eugene Richter's Pictures of the Socialistic Future and F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Both books warn against the dangers of socialism. Pictures of a Socialistic Future, published in 1891 is a dystopian novel imagining what life would be like after a socialist revolution. The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, explores the links between economic freedom and political freedom and the inherent similarities between communism and fascism. Both books look at the German roots of centralized planning and the nature of the people who rise to power when the State is powerful. The conversation includes discussion of the these topics as well as the rule of law and the amount of state control of the economy in Nazi Germany.