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34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Ideas Having Sex

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The Freedom to Do What Sounds Wrong

I think actually my very favorite one is the last one, the freedom to do what sounds wrong. It's more important for people to be free to build housing than to manufacture heroin. I'm writing a book right now called Imbedable, the brutally honest case for free markets. The great neglected bad thing about governments is they do bad stuff that sounds good.

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