What makes governments do what they do? It’s not a snide question. At least not entirely. People’s expectations of government are often frustrated, and their frustrations magnified, because of a lack of systematic analysis of how the state is likely to behave given that, like a market economy, it’s composed of individual people reacting to incentives, but the incentives are very different from those in the private sector. Listen to the podcast, here.
Earlier today I was on the Andrew Lawton show on AM 980 to talk about my latest National Post column. Listen below. Starts at the 1:02:00 (approx) mark. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/9384272" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]
[podcast title="Madely in the morning, June 1"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2015/June/John_Robson_June1.mp3[/podcast]
[podcast title="Rebel podcast, May 28, 2015"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2015/May/150528_Robson_Rebel_Virginian_audio.mp3[/podcast]
There’s plenty of dissatisfaction with “government” these days. But unless we understand what government actually is we are unlikely to find workable solutions to the problems it presents. Episode 5 of Reality University Podcast is up. Go listen!
[podcast title="Madely in the morning, May 25"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2015/May/John_Robson_May25.mp3[/podcast]
The Road to Serfdom has always been one of my favourite, nearly incomprehensible but vitally important books. Listen here.
[podcast title="Rebel podcast, May 19, 2015"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2015/May/150519_Robson_Rebel_Maginot_audio.mp3[/podcast]