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Free Thoughts

Building a Better Government

Dec 4, 2015
01:05:25

If you started from scratch and wanted to build a government that preserved the free choices of its citizens as much as possible, and used force only in circumstances where it provided net benefits to all concerned parties, how would you do it? How long would its powers remain limited?

Richard A. Epstein joins us this week to discuss classical liberal statecraft, state cartels vs. private monopolies, inequality, and more.

Show Notes and Further Reading

We highly recommend reading all of Epstein’s books; start with Simple Rules for a Complex WorldTakings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain, and The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government.

Here’s a video lecture Libertarianism.org produced on Simple Rules for a Complex World.



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