John Tamny of RealClearMarkets joins me to discuss how progress really works and the extraordinary advances we’ve lived through that people scarcely notice or appreciate. And robots are going to make us better off, by the way….

Book Discussed

The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job

Guest’s Other Books

Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics
Who Needs the Fed? What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America’s Central Bank

Guest’s Twitter

@JohnTamny

Related Episodes

Ep. 753 The Bad News They Leave Out, and the Good News They Leave Out
Ep. 40 Will Robots Take Our Jobs? (George Reisman)

Previous Appearances

Ep. 757 DEBATE: Is Fractional Reserve Banking Economically Benign? (Jeff Herbener John Tamny)
Ep. 686 We Don’t Need the Fed, a Central Planning Agency
Ep. 379 How to Think About Outsourcing, Inequality, Energy Independence, and Lots of Other Things

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