Oren Cass
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818 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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The easiest way to make a lot of money is to do this set of things that does not create good jobs, does not necessarily produce growth.
So that's what people started doing.
Yeah, it's definitely a rebuttal of them.
I think the important thing to say in the political context, though, is that until they came along, this wasn't a left-right fight in the way that we think about it now.
So, you know, Friedman and the other guy gets associated with this a lot, Friedrich Hayek.
Yes.
What you find is that Friedman and Hayek were not conservatives and they would not have described themselves as conservatives.
In fact, Hayek, maybe his most famous essay is called Why I Am Not a Conservative.
Literally, that's the title of the essay and it goes to exactly what you're just describing, which is that Hayek basically says the wonder of the self-regulating market is
is what produces prosperity.
And you just basically have to have faith that it will work and get out of the way.
And all these conservatives out there don't have enough faith in that.
And that's a real problem.
Right.
And so up until that period, as you said, kind of the 70s and the 80s,
Obviously, conservatives and progressives were fighting about all sorts of things, but it wasn't the conservative view that, well, if we just get out of the way, markets will magically fix everything.
I mean just thinking about like – that doesn't actually sound very conservative if you stop and think about it for a moment.
What happened in our politics is Ronald Reagan came along.
Right.
And Reagan built this coalition.
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