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August 5, 2024 46 mins

How should we think about the relationship between free trade and national security? How did economists come to think of free trade as a good thing? Did Paris make good use of $1.5 billion to clean up the Seine River for the Olympics?

Samuel Gregg joins Econception today to discuss.

Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has a D.Phil. in moral philosophy and political economy from Oxford University, and an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

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