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The Great Antidote: Jacob Levy on Smith, Hayek, and Social Justice

The title of this episode might confuse you: what on earth do Adam Smith and F. A. Hayek have to say about social justice? A surprising amount, given how much we talk about it!

The Great Antidote: Don Boudreaux on the Essential Hayek

The month of October 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of F. A. Hayek winning the Nobel Prize. Winning such a prize is obviously a big deal, but someone wins one every year, so what’s the big deal about this guy?

The Great Antidote: Nicholas Snow on Prohibition

Do you ever take a moment to think about the fact that Americans, the people of the land of the free, spent 13 years under Prohibition? Did you know that Americans used to seriously “drink like a fish”?

The Great Antidote: Robert Doar on Think Tanks and Scholarship

What does it actually mean to run a think tank, to create harmony within an office building full of idea-confident folk? Some have called the think tank a monastery, some have called it an academic social club, and some have even called it a policy incubator. What truly is it and how on earth do you lead one?

The Great Antidote: Yuval Levin on The American Covenant

Remembering and embracing the spirit upon which America was founded—one of intellectual and political dynamism—is key to striking the balance between life, politics, and disagreement that has felt so off-kilter recently.

The Great Antidote: Henry C. Clark on Growth

Growth is essential to human life. Always has been, always will be. From the moment we are born, we grow, and we continue to throughout our lives, whether that is physically, mentally, or otherwise. Societies grow, too.

But what IS growth?

The Great Antidote: Candace Smith on Etiquette

Some questions are hard to ask. Some questions you don’t want to ask. Some questions are hard for you to hear the answers to. Like, how do you tell someone, politely, that they eat with their mouth open? Between a rock and a hard place, you know you gotta do it. You really don’t want to, but you know you can’t stand to watch it anymore either.

The Great Antidote: Paul Mueller on ESG

What does it mean for something to be ESG when two of those words are adjectives and one is a noun? I mean think about it. “Environmental, social, and governance” doesn’t really describe anything. It’s also a good example of cacophony. So can someone please explain what it means?

The Great Antidote: Extras: Pete Boettke on Mainline Economics

What does it mean to "sit in the seat of Adam Smith"? Are economists describing the world or explaining the world? Read more from Lavery to learn about Pete Boettke's answers to these and more questions.

The Great Antidote: Ryan Bourne on The War on Prices

What’s in a price? Good question. How can you be “enslaved” to something like a price, to something that doesn’t eat, sleep, or breathe? Good question. What does it mean to wage a war against this inanimate enslaver? Good question.

The Great Antidote: Michael Cannon on Prices and Health

If the price system is such a marvel, as F.A. Hayek once said, why does it seem so conspicuously absent from US healthcare? And how might it actually help us along the road to universal healthcare?

Cato Institute health policy expert Michael Cannon joins host Juliette Sellgren to explore.

The Great Antidote: Charles Noussair on Experimental Economics and Testing Institutions

What if Adam Smith could have tested his economic intuitions in a modern day laboratory? How does the culture one is embedded in change the way they make economic decisions? Can we design a better political system in a lab? These questions and more are posed by host Juliette Sellgren in this podcast.