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Free Thoughts, Ep. 217: How Conscious Capitalism Can Solve Global Poverty (with Michael Strong)

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2017 · News & Politics

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Michael Strong joins us this week to talk about the role that capitalism and social entrepreneurship play in alleviating global poverty.

We also discuss special economic zones, startup cities, the right of exit, mechanisms of public choice, and seasteading.

Show Notes and Further Reading

Strong is the author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems (2009) and The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice (1997).
https://www.amazon.com/Be-Solution-Entrepreneurs-Conscious-Capitalists/dp/0470450037
https://www.amazon.com/Habit-Thought-Socratic-Seminars-Practice/dp/0944337392/

Strong’s articles “Naomi Klein, Young Earth Creationist” and “Towards a Hierarchy of Moral Outrage”.
https://medium.com/@flowidealism/naomi-klein-young-earth-creationist-997ded8c3fac
https://athousandnations.com/2009/11/10/reflections-on-the-berlin-wall-the-sequel-towards-a-hierarchy-of-moral-outrage/

Here’s our Free Thoughts episode with Bruce Benson: https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/enterprise-law-justice-without-state

John Hasnas’s essay “The Obviousness of Anarchy”: http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/Obvious.pdf

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