In this interview Prof. Roberts talks about, among other things, the ideas in his brand new book The Price of Everything: A Parable of Prosperity and Possibility. It is not mentioned in the podcast that the book is written as a fictional story to make the economic lessons easier to digest. In the interview, Prof. Roberts talks about some of the inherent problems of central planning by governments and how he would like to see markets studied more.
http://economics.gmu.edu/faculty/rroberts.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Roberts_(economist)
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