In this weekly podcast series, Don Watkins, fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, talks to a diverse range of guests about the welfare state crisis and what to do about it.
26-08-2014
The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Cato senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale on America's entitlement-fueled debt problem.
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19-08-2014
In this episode, I interview Manhattan Institute fellow Scott Winship on economic inequality, mobility, and the American Dream.
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12-08-2014
In this episode, I interview Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, about the cause of the Depression and how it made possible the creation of the American welfare state.
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05-08-2014
In this episode, I interview Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at UCLA, on the state of the economy.
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29-07-2014
In this episode, I interview Sylvester Schieber.
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22-07-2014
In this episode, I interview Tara Smith, a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, and author of Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist.
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15-07-2014
In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I interview Ayn Rand Institute president Yaron Brook on Thomas Piketty and the debate over inequality.
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08-07-2014
In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I contrast my own approach to the welfare state crisis with those who label it “generational theft,” and discuss why no one — not even the elderly — benefit from the welfare state.
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24-06-2014
Episode 16 - Charles Murray on Self-Reliance
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17-06-2014
In this episode of the Debt Dialogues, I interview FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe about how the welfare state is drafting young Americans into debt, and how they can effectively fight against it.
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