The Market Fetish - Part 4 with Asad Zaman

Editor&#8217;s note: <em>Apologies for the delay. I had a seizure and I was in the hospital. During the seizure I also broke my nose. We will resume with our regular weekly content. We also plan on including some bonus content for the weeks we missed. We apologize. </em><br/><br/>And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Asad Zaman. Enjoy.<br/><br/>Audio chapters<br/><br/><strong>4:11</strong> - Mercantilism<br/><br/><strong>8:10</strong> - Fascism is not something in and of itself, rather it's something to fill in the vacuum left by the wreckage of the self-regulating market<br/><br/><strong>10:58</strong> - The ideology and religion of greed<br/><br/><strong>12:22</strong> - Jane Austen- The poorest AMONG THE ARISTOCRACY (the movie Ever After)<br/><br/><strong>15:43</strong> - The importance of history to the study of economics.<br/><br/><strong>22:28</strong> - Those who benefit most from of capitalism want us to focus on the imaginary, not history.<br/><br/><strong>24:08</strong> - Entanglement- The methodology of Polanyi (history shapes our ideas which shapes history)<br/><br/><strong>29:17</strong> - "Government is bad", but the self-regulating market requires even more government to suppress the protestations of those suffering at the hand of the self-regulating market<br/><br/><strong>34:47</strong> - Average people serve as gatekeepers for the exploiters (protecting privilege)<br/><br/><strong>39:21</strong> - What do I tell my kids?<br/><br/><strong>48:43</strong> - Goodbyes <br/><br/>Get full access to Historic.ly at <a href="https://historicly.substack.com/subscribe?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjI3OTU2LCJpYXQiOjE2NTI4MDY5MjAsImV4cCI6MTY1NTM5ODkyMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgwNzkiLCJzdWIiOiJjaGVja291dCJ9.a5AuxouIYeqkoYXvln2QzGDzfiQYhPd2VjMAaocILUE&#38;utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">historicly.substack.com/subscribe</a>