Dr. Antony Davies is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow at FEE, associate professor of economics at Duquesne University, and co-host of the podcast, Words & Numbers. Get the book here! http://cooperationandcoercion.com/ His podcast can be found here: https://wordsandnumbers.libsyn.com/ My previous conversation with Dr. Davies: https://youtu.be/rn6iYpEkCVg
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/bAoeS0aZAEcC/
LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b/Cooperation—Coercion.-Antony-Davies—Keith-Knight.:0
Archive: https://archive.org/details/cooperation-and-coercion-davies-knight
0:00 – Quote from pg.12 of Cooperation & Coercion
0:47 – What is the major difference between cooperation and coercion?
2:10 – Government is violence
4:15 – Morality, not determined by majority vote
6:07 – Is democracy coercive?
9:02 – What is economics? – No solutions, only trade offs
10:09 – The value of humility
12:18 – Does ‘free market’ mean ‘every man for himself?
15:13 – 1996 Australia Gun Confiscation
19:06 – How to approach a pandemic?
22:21 – What if people are uneducated?
24:12 – What about homelessness?
27:08 – What about healthcare?
30:02 – Big tech silencing free speech?
32:26 – Does supporting the ‘free market’ mean being ‘pro business’?
34:12 – Statist double standard
37:02 – Positive rights v. Negative rights
39:58 – How government grows – positive rights & ambiguity
41:57 – War on poverty – $22 Trillion for nothing?
44:12 – Noam Chomsky: Free markets put profit over people – REBUTTED
47:09 – How government turns good people, into immoral people
49:15 – Cooperation- the self correcting mechanism
51:42 – Against Autonomy – REBUTTED
54:11 – Brilliant incite from 1954 essay, iPencil
57:25 – 3 favorite economists?
58:10 – What government schools leave out of the Declaration of Independence
