Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion
EconTalk at GMU
English - March 18, 2013 11:30 - 1 hour - 31.7 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsCourses Education Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Angus Burgin of Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Great Persuasion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea in his book--the return of free market economics in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Burgin describes the reaction to Hayek's Road to Serfdom, the creation of the Mont Pelerin Society, and the increasing influence of Milton Friedman on public policy.