Richard Werner
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4,694 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 May
Richard Werner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so we see that we do have influential international forces that are anti-population growth.
potentially anti-population, and also anti-growth.
And we don't, well, it's not really factually based.
You know, this great deception started really again in the British Empire in the 19th century.
It's really the source of modern economics.
This is how modern economics was developed.
It started with the so-called classical economists in Britain.
And the key figure here is David Ricardo.
Who is he?
Well, he's a famous classical economist.
He did the theory of free trade, you know, the theory of comparative advantage, which concludes, well, we should have free trade.
It gives us prosperity.
Yes.
And at the same time, the argument is, well, the previous economists, the mercantilists, mercantile economists, they were so wrong because they argued, well, we may need some trade policy.
We need some intervention.
We need to make sure that the benefits from trade are properly, equally distributed.
That's what the mercantilists said.
And ever since David Ricardo...
This is claimed to have been disproven.
And it's just free trade is best, also unilateral free trade.
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