The Michael Shermer Show

326. Naomi Oreskes — The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

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Feb 21, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
What Is a Myth?
04:04 • 4min
3
The Myth of the Robber Barons
07:48 • 4min
4
The Merges of Doubt
12:02 • 1min
5
What Is the Role of Government?
13:15 • 5min
6
Why Intelligent Scientists Don't Suffer From Motivated Reasoning
18:36 • 4min
7
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
22:49 • 6min
8
Adam Smith's the Mind of the Market
28:35 • 2min
9
Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
30:10 • 2min
10
Exactly. That's a That Was 1759 He Published.
32:05 • 4min
11
The Social Costs of Capitalism
36:07 • 4min
12
Are You Really Responsible for the Welfare of Children?
39:52 • 2min
13
The Power of Market Failure and the Distribution of Electricity
42:08 • 6min
14
Rural Electricity
48:04 • 2min
15
The Little House on the Parade
49:50 • 4min
16
Building Codes and Regulations in the Face of the Earthquake
53:39 • 3min
17
Is There a Role for Government?
56:29 • 2min
18
I Don't Have to Pay My Income Taxes, Right?
58:10 • 6min
19
The Doping Problem in Cycling
01:04:08 • 3min
20
Mortgages and Collateral Debt Obligations - What Are They Doing?
01:07:35 • 2min
21
Credit Card Debt Crisis
01:09:41 • 4min
22
The Indivisibility Thesis by Lulu Von Mises and Friedrich Von Hayek
01:13:42 • 5min
23
We Can Make Choices, Right?
01:18:53 • 3min
24
Reagan Was a General Electric Theater Host
01:21:41 • 5min
25
What's the Point of Capitalism?
01:26:31 • 4min
26
The Power of Positive Thinking
01:30:19 • 2min
27
The Name of the Best Within You
01:32:36 • 4min
28
The Big Myth of Ayn Rand
01:36:26 • 2min
29
The Fundamentalism of Capitalism
01:38:56 • 3min
30
Social Networks
01:42:02 • 2min
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The Law Can't Change the Heart, but It Can Restrain the Heartless
01:44:16 • 2min
32
The Nuclear Triad
01:45:48 • 2min
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The Myth of Government, Right?
01:47:42 • 2min
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Isn't Social Security Working?
01:49:37 • 2min
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Is Social Security Really a Tax?
01:51:12 • 3min