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What’s the Austro-libertarian interpretation of the “Gilded Age”? Because popular media sees it as a disaster.

- Excessive poverty

- Too small government, not enough regulation

- Can’t vote out the “robber barons”

- Increase in wealth inequality

There's a lot of discussion about that particular period here:

Murray Rothbard and his students/intellectual colleagues and successors are the go-to people for economic history.

Have also been hearing quote a few mentions of Ralph Raico's name as a good source for the same subject.

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I’ll listen to this one again to refresh. Could use 20 hours instead of just 2 between these 2 guys.

These are other links you can explore for more as well:

You can always find more in this playlist of mine if you're looking for austro-libertarian takes on other things:

Just watched that one with Newman, so good.