Cooperation and Coercion. Antony Davies and Keith Knight.

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/

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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