In honour of Steve Horwitz (1964-2021), we are re-releasing his conversation with Alex Aragona on what drives progress — a topic near and dear to Steve's heart.
References from The Curious Task Special Episode 1 with Steve Horwitz
- Steve Horwitz is the author of Austrian Economics: An Introduction; Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective; Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order; and Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions which are available for purchase on Amazon Canada (titles hyperlinked).
- This article entitled Persistent Fallacies by Vuk Vukovic recounts the misconceptions surrounding growth and is a response to the book, Why Nations Fail, featuring an anecdote on Paul Samuelson’s forecast of the USSR overtaking the US economy that was referenced by Steve in the episode.
- In case you missed Virginia Postrel’s episode on The Curious Task and wish to catch up with her research, her book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, can be purchased on Amazon Canada at this link.
- The Cato Institute published an article by Adam D. Thierer on permissionless innovation, which also provides an overview of Deidre McCloskey’s contributions to the theory. It can be read here.
- You can read Steve’s article, Privilege and the Liberal Tradition, on libertarianism.org.
- Here is an excerpt on Ludwig’s von Mises’ concept of peaceful transference from his book, Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition.
- You can learn more about Robert Higgs’ concept of regime uncertainty through this downloadable PDF published by the Independent Institute.
- This article by Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr. is an introduction to “sound money” that Steve also talks about during the podcast.
- You can watch Hans Rosling’s TED video on The Magic Washing Machine at this link.
- The joint research on inequality published by Steve and Vincent Geloso is available for reading here.
- Here is the article written by Steve on Tyler Cowen’s joint article on The Great Stagnation, which is also available for reading online at this link.
- Here is some more background on precision medicine that Steve mentions briefly on the podcast.
- Here is the link to the 2007 panel discussion with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that Alex mentions in the podcast.
- The Back to the Future trilogy and Demolition Man can be purchased and/or streamed from Amazon Canada. You can read more about John Stuart Mill’s “experiments of living” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s website (Chapter 4.6).