

The Answer Is Transaction Costs
Michael Munger
"The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." -Adam Smith (WoN, Bk I, Chapter 5)In which the Knower of Important Things shows how transaction costs explain literally everything. Plus TWEJ, and answers to letters.If YOU have questions, submit them to our email at taitc.email@gmail.com There are two kinds of episodes here: 1. For the most part, episodes June-August are weekly, short (<20 mins), and address a few topics. 2. Episodes September-May are longer (1 hour), and monthly, with an interview with a guest.Finally, a quick note: This podcast is NOT for Stacy Hockett. He wanted you to know that.....
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Answer Is Transaction Costs podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The Wealth of Nations

#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The road to serfdom
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Political Capitalism

#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Brass Ring

#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Socialist Calculation Debate
Theory, History, and Contemporary Relevance

#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Mythical Man-Month
Essays on Software Engineering

#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The theory of moral sentiments
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Politics As a Peculiar Business

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Shattered
Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Expressive Voting

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Fable of the Bees
or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A treatise of human nature

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Abortion, Baseball, and Weed
Economic Issues of Our Times
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Alienation and the Soviet economy
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Man Who Invented Conservatism
The Unlikely Life of Frank Meyer

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Country music USA
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Problem of Social Cost
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The Intellectuals
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A Life Up Front
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Moral Community, Moral Order, and Moral Anarchy
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