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Critics of capitalism argue that it promotes inequality, greed, and exploitation and harms the environment. Not so, argues Yaron Brook. Capitalism promotes virtue and human flourishing. Free markets ensure that relationships are consensual, and they respect the autonomy and dignity of the individual, while achieving far better outcomes for everyone – whether rich or poor – than any other economic system. Capitalism will also provide the best solutions to Climate change and other environmental problems.
Yaron Brook is the Chairman of the board at Ayn Rand Institute and has a PhD at The University of Texas at Austin. Yaron Brook was born in Israel and is a declared Objectivist.
The conversation will also touch on the situation in the Middle East and how Yaron Brook sees the situation in Israel from the perspective of an Israeli-American citizen.
Recorded on the 24th of october 2023.

In this week’s episode our special guest is Tyler Cowen. Cowen is professor of economics at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1987. He serves as the general director of the Mercatus Center, which is a research center focused on the market economy. Tyler Cowen is widely considered one of the most respected and influential economists over the past decades. He visits the podcast to discuss the moral argument for high economic growth and discusses the relationship between growth  and issues like general happiness, geopolitics in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the transition to a society with net zero carbon emissions. 

Jos de Blok is the founder and CEO of the Dutch organization Buurtzorg, which is an internationally known home care organization that is based on self-organization and self-determination. In response to frustration and dissatisfaction in organized Dutch home care, welfare entrepreneur Jos de Blok set out to simplify home care by focusing on processes and results rather than activities.
 
The conversation centers on the Buurtzorg model; how the model came about and what components it entails, and why the model is the best solution for patients, nurses and carers in home care. Martin Ågerup talks to Jos de Blok about the spread and success of the model, and how the Danish care area can potentially be designed in the same way with an increased focus on self-determination, quality and satisfaction of both citizens and care staff
 

Contact podcast host Martin Ågerup: martin@CEPOS.dk

The recording was made on 13 October 2021.

 
Links:
Buurtzorg website
https://www.buurtzorg.com/

In this episode Martin Ågerup talks with Mark Littlewood who is the Director General for the British free-market think-tank Institute of Economic Affairs. First, Littlewood explains that his view on Britain’s membership of the EU has changed over time from a supportive to an opposed stance. Accordingly, the EU has become a centralisation project and a regulatory racket. Moreover, the EU has not been successful at opening its market to non-EU members. Second, Littlewood argues that the EU has lost a classical liberal member due to Britain’s exit, but he also believes that Britain can function as free-market model which the EU could learn from. Finally, Littlewood advocates that the present international institutions are not capable of coping with the rise of China and its democratic deficits. Therefore, the current international institutions need to be reformed or new ones must be created among like-minded democracies.  Listen to the episode and obtain insights on a free-market perspective on Brexit. 
Links:
Institute of Economic Affairs: https://iea.org.uk/


Littlewood (2020) “Hard work is not the answer for our
new Britain, but smarter work can be”, The Telegraph: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hard-work-is-not-the-answer-for-our-new-britain-but-smarter-work-can-be-68ndst2jt



Singham & Tylecote (2019) “Plan A+ Creating a
prosperous post-Brexit UK”: https://iea.org.uk/publications/plan-a-creating-a-prosperous-post-brexit-uk/

This is a live edition, recorded in front of an audience at CEPOS, on the 27th of April, where Martin Ågerup discussed the EU's future with Dalibor Rohac, author of several books on the EU, most recently 'Governing the EU in an Age of Division'. Few international organizations are more closely associated with the idea of ​​creating peace and progress than the EU, but cohesion is challenged. On the one hand, an ever-closer union is being implemented, on the other hand, member states opt out of implementing what was decided. Is a new recipe needed for the collaboration?
Dalibor Rohac is a Slovak and Senior Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in the USA.

Contact podcast host: Martin@cepos.dk


Recorded on the 27th of April 2023.

 

Link  ‘Governing the EU in an Age of Division’:

https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/governing-the-eu-in-an-age-of-division/

 

Jesus Fernandez Villaverde's papers:

https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pfe14.htm



Dalibor Rohacs papers and research

https://www.aei.org/profile/dalibor-rohac/

Art Carden is professor of economics at Samford University's Brock School of Business and affiliated with a number of research Institutions including Senior Fellow at the American Institute of Economic Research. In 2020 Carden co-authored the book "Leave me alone and I'll make you rich" with Professor Deirdre McCloskey, a philosophy which is the starting point of this episodes discussion.
Contact info: martin@cepos.dk

Recorded on the 16th of august 2022.

Links:

Live lecture at CEPOS: https://youtu.be/tu6Ibfd_mn0

'Samfundstanker Bonus' with Deirdre McCloskey and Tommy Ahlers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-event-deirdre-mccloskey-og-tommy-ahlers-er-danmark/id1539149610?i=1000535249873

EconRoots Talk - McCloskey: We should aim to be worldly philosophers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econroots-talk-mccloskey-we-should-aim-to-be-worldly/id1504895792?i=1000549738563