This week’s Ruminant may have been recorded earlier this week, but it’s aged like fine wine, as postliberalism continues to delegitimize itself, capitalism continues to triumph, state-run grocery stores are still a really stupid idea, and Rousseau is still wrong.Plus: the roots of economic resentment and Jonah’s thoughts on the pervasive phenomenon of main character syndrome.

Show Notes:
—Tyler Cowen in The Free Press: “Why Won’t Socialism Die?”
—Tim Carney: The Big Ripoff: How Big Business And Big Government Steal Your Money
—Scott Lincicome’s Capitolism: “State-Run Supermarkets: A (Bad) Statist Solution in Search of a Problem”
—EconTalk with Russ Roberts
—Bearish on the Wednesday G-File

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