{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Libertarian Christian Podcast","title":"Why the Free Market Works, with John Lott","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3372,"description":"Ask why the free market works and most popular economics hands you a clever story about how it doesn't. Insurance companies are greedy. Real estate agents run a racket. Used car buyers are being fleeced. The stories sell books, and they rarely survive a phone call to the people being accused.\nJohn Lott has spent a career making those phone calls. Economist, former chief economist at the U.S. Sentencing Commission, author of More Guns, Less Crime, he wrote Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories That Don't as a direct answer to the Freakonomics school of counterintuitive economics. The claim is not that markets are magic. It is that when a pattern holds for decades among people with their own money on the line, the odds favor a reason over a mistake. What follows is the method and the evidence: how to tell a finding that holds from one that merely sounds good, why the most famous claim in Freakonomics runs backward, and what actually explains the growth of government.\nChapters:\n0:22 Intro and Freedomnomics Overview\n3:35 Guns Research by Accident\n8:40 Debating the Gun Evidence\n17:30 Carry Laws and Crime Patterns\n23:04 Freakonomics and Hidden Assumptions\n31:51 Abortion, Family Change, and Crime\n35:57 Challenging LoJack and Incentives\n41:55 Real Estate, Cars, and Markets\n49:13 Why Government Grew\n53:30 Divorce, Voting, and Liberalism\n57:41 Where to Find More Research\n\nAudio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_xYS0SShA1KrKcrVFqXWyj90yhkxE6xSYO7xJUc6g9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5Mjc2LzE3MDY3/MjA4ODgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}