We welcome back Brian Simpson to talk about his 2005 book, Markets Don't Fail. Tune in for a lively discussion covering several topics found in most/all economic textbooks, and why those books are misleading, at best, and outright false, at worst. In essence, we prove that, Markets Don't Fail.

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Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• A Declaration and Constitution for a Free Society - The Secular Foxhole podcast, episode 51
• Dr. Brian Simpson - National University
• Markets Don't Fail!
• Markets Don't Fail by Brian P. Simpson - Rowman & Littlefield
• Brian Simpson's blog post, Presentation on International Trade and Immigration
• Lebanese Institute for Market Studies
• Javier Milei
• The Markets for Lemons
• Division of labor
• Needed in the Context of the Renewed Popularity of Keynes’s Ideas: An Analysis of his Errors
• Léon Walras
• William Stanley Jevons
• Carl Menger
• Early Austrian Economics (Great Economic Thinkers)
• Ludwig von Mises
• Friedrich Hayek
• Jean-Baptiste Say
• Say's Law
• Frédéric Bastiat
• The Broken Window Fallacy
• Henry Hazlitt
• George Reisman

Episode 84 (69 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on May 10, 2024, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.

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