Ep. 35: Why Not Capitalism? (with Jason Brennan)
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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2014 · News & Politics
This week Jason Brennan joins Aaron Powell and Trevor Burrus to discuss his newest book, Why Not Capitalism?, which is a response to G. A. Cohen's 2009 book Why Not Socialism? Brennan says that Cohen commits the fallacy of comparing idealized socialism with perfect actors to real markets with imperfect actors, and offers an illustrative example as proof that when comparing idealized capitalism to idealized socialism and real capitalism to real socialism, it is capitalism—not socialism—that claims the moral high ground. Download the .mp3: http://bit.ly/T3q9yf Subscribe in iTunes: https://bitly.com/18wswtX iOS app: http://bit.ly/1lL3OAy Android app: http://bit.ly/1qsV0ka
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