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Socialism Sucks
- Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism - while drinking a lot of beer.
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- Robert Lentowich
- 2020-03-14
Short but brilliant
very easily digestible, hard talking points reinforced by direct knowledge and evidence.
Well I dont agree with their quick blurb on open borders, since disprovem but several studies in the U.K. everything else is bang on.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-04-13
The Awful Truth Laid Bare
The book's brevity is due to the fact that it focuses on the RESULTS of Socialist policies. These proof-is-in-the-pudding arguments are compelling enough, to be sure. A book that explored the reasons WHY Socialism fails EVERY SINGLE TIME; why it is incompatible with the human condition, would delve into topics outside the authors' fields of expertise. Still, I don't doubt that Lawson and Powell would have been able to make those arguments in compelling fashion. They just chose to leave that to others and not have a 12-hour book. I like that they stuck with the 'textbook' definition of Socialism and underscored the foolishness of single-issue people who care about matters largely outside of state economics yet define themselves as "Socialist".
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- AJ
- 2019-09-23
simple and informative
easy explanations of real world socialism examples, and the different concept of neo Western socialism
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- Jake L.S.
- 2020-01-04
Socialism does Suck.
These two authors do a great job of reviewing the atrocies of socialism and the benefits of capitalism through the Universe.
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- David Kippenhuck
- 2019-08-08
Must read in today's world
Absolutely great book that brings the arguments against socialism down to a everyday level. The mix of ideas and stories is done very well.
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