Art Carden — Why Are We Rich?

Alex Aragona chats with Art Carden as he explains the kind of deal we need to make if we want to see great prosperity.

References from Episode 82 with Art Carden

• Art Carden is the co-author of the book, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, with Deirdre McCloskey, which is available on Amazon Canada at this link (Kindle Edition and Hardcover).
• Art references Shylock from The Merchant of Venice and Iago from Othello, whose full texts are accessible through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s website (titles hyperlinked).
• This is an interactive graphic by Our World in Data on the world literacy rate overtime.
• Here is a link to a further elaboration of Adam Smith’s quote that “people of the same trades seldom meet together … but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices” and one of “the great deal of ruin in a nation” that were mentioned by Art (Courtesy of the Adam Smith Institute).
  This is a link to William Nordhaus’ working paper on the gains from innovation. 
• You can read more about Fred Shuttlesworth on the encyclopedia website of the King Institute at Stanford University at this link. 
• You can watch the 2007 D5 Conference that hosted Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together and features a question on the “desktop paradigm” on Youtube at this link.
• You can read Thomas Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle Population on The Library of Economics and Liberty website. 
• Here is a link to the Youtube series, Free to Choose, featuring Milton Friedman. 
• You can purchase John Kenneth Galbraith’s book, The New Industrial State, on Amazon Canada at this link.
• Here is a list of the Top 10 Fortune 500 companies.
• Andrew McAfee’s book, More from Less, talks about the dematrialization of economic growth and can be purchased on Amazon Canada here. 
• Art mentions Robin Hanson’s concept of the Futures Market during the podcast. You can read more about it in this article by Robin Hanson.
• Thomas Sowell’s book, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, is available on Amazon Canada at this link.