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The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth — Benjamin M. Friedman

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Contrast Between America and Australia

Australia's religious origins are much more Catholic than Protestant Ben. And I wonder if that has sort of cast a long shadow over us socially in the form of the lesser entrepreneurship in Australia than you would see in America. We have grown up with first relying on the top down provisions and authority from the Catholic Church, and then that sort of slowly grew into the same faith and expectation in big government. Of course, I'm completely speculating here, but it is an interesting distinction between the two countries. Well, let me not make any pretense whatsoever of being able to talk about Australia because not only have I not lived there, I very much regret to say I have never visited Australia. It

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