Ep. 60: Middle Easterners Invented Entrepreneurship (with Nima Sanandaji)
Jun 26, 2018•35 min
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Episode description
Dr. Nima Sanandaji has a PhD in Engineering from Stockholm’s Royal Institute, and he has written over 20 books on policy, philosophy, current affairs and history. He joins me now to talk about his latest, “The Birthplace of Capitalism,” which explains how and why ancient Middle Easterners invented capitalism and entrepreneurship.
Further Reading:Nima Sanandaji’s Wikipedia entry
His latest book, The Birthplace of Capitalism: The Middle East, Timbro (2018)
Dr. Sanandaji’s 2016 speech on Nordic socialism at the Cato Institute
Roderick Long joins Free Thoughts to talk about libertarian themes in Confucianism
Music by Kai Engel
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