Robert Lawson on: “Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World”

Robert Lawson, director of the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business join us to discuss his new book, Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World. John H. Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct scholar of the CATO Institute.

Hear what Robert Lawson, director of the O’Neil Center at SMU, has to say about his new book.

Hong Kong is the most free marketplace, the last place is Venezuela. We don’t score North Korea or Cuba due to lack of data. The reality is every country has elements of capitalism and socialism.
Robert Lawson, SMU

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