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Episode 154: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy (with Richard E. Wagner)

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2016 · News & Politics

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Richard Wagner provides an overview of public choice economics and considers how limited governments are incentivized to morph into destructive regulatory systems.

Is an economy like a machine or a tropical rainforest? Is it more like a mechanical device that can be maintained by an exogenous force (government), or is it more like a diverse ecology, one that includes government actors?

Richard Wagner joins us this week to discuss his new book, Politics As a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy (2016).
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Peculiar-Business-Entangled-Political/dp/1785365479

Wagner concludes that modern governments function much the way a business enterprise does, albeit a strange one. He also theorizes about what happens when government becomes entangled in the same incentive structures it claims regulatory power over.

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