Chronically Human Podcast

Dr. William Anderson joins us today. He  is a professor of economics at Frostburg State University, Senior Fellow at The Mises Institute and he’s been studying and writing about Austrian Economics since 1981.  We discuss his latest article “AOC’s Green New Deal and The Great Leap Forward”. He explains why centrally planned economies  have never worked in the past and why they still won’t work today.  You can find a complete timeline,  links and shownotes from this episode go to: https://chronicallyhuman.co/2019/02/27/why-the-new-green-deal-wont-work-dr-william-anderson-chp-ep-17/  Dr. Anderson explains how The New Green Deal is based upon the same ideology of The Great Leap Forward in China, The Centrally Planned Economy of the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq in 2003. All of these government actions are based upon the idea of collectivism, which is a political philsophy that believes individuals, whether in the U.S. or other countrie