Talking millennial socialism im joined by my guest mexico in new york hes an economist and writer as well as a Senior Research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research his research focuses on policy and technology in baltimore we have thomas de lorenzo hes a professor of economics at Loyola University maryland in baltimore as well as a senior fellow at the mieses institute his latest book is the problem with socialism and in monterey we cross to David Henderson he is an emeritus professor of economics with the Naval Postgraduate School in monterey as well as a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University he is author of the joy of freedom in economists honestly are gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate thomas let me go to you 1st in baltimore i dont i dont really think on this program we need to speak about the failings of socialism i think were all on the same page on that here my poi
Her in the evening right here in moscow this wednesday november the 13th welcome to our 2 international. We begin in brazil where the bric summit is under way this where the International Group represents over 3000000000 people worldwide to develop economic and political cooperation indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chinese president xi jinping already in the country with a look at what lies ahead. For us. This year. Brix group which is an acronym made of the 1st letters of its 5 Member States brazil russia india china and south africa gather for 11th time and for some real is serious stuff. And impressive set of goals for an ambitious International Group and the brics members have already voiced their big expectations under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the 5 countries the brics corporation has become increasingly cohesive with its influence constantly on the rise has served as both a stabilizing in International Turbulence and was example of a new type of International R
Let me go to you 1st in baltimore i dont i dont really think on this program we need to speak about the failings of socialism i think were all on the same page on that here my point in this program is here no i dont want to waste time on that because i its obvious ok historically it obvious on its face here but thomas what is the attraction then why do we have so many millennial zz and so many people attracted to this idea that so many of them have no historical knowledge of whatsoever go ahead thomas in baltimore. It was mostly because people like David Henderson and myself have been snuffed out of the academic world there are still 100 classical liberals in american academe but were outnumbered by hundreds of thousands of others and the young people are taught what economists call the nirvana fallacy they pose socialism as some sort of utopian ideal and compare that to the real world and of course the real world always comes up short when you compare it to utopia and thats basically
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