{"id":38645,"date":"2021-02-08T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=38645"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:00:11","slug":"oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e13-neo-liberalism-laissez-faire-and-the-great-irish-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=38645","title":{"rendered":"Oldfilibuster\u2019s Rhyme &#038; Reason \u2013 E13 \u2013 Neo-liberalism, laissez faire and the Great Irish Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?light=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Foldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e13-neo-liberalism-laissez-faire-and-the-great-irish-famine%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Wealth of Nations<\/em> (1776), Adam Smith argued that markets are governed by an \u2018invisible hand\u2019 and thus should be subject to minimal government interference, to allow said free markets to facilitate sustained economic growth. Letting the free market be king, queen and government is all very well and good when all things are equal, but when things are not equal, as in Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine, Smith\u2019s subsequent army of fans would become criminally negligent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Produced and presented by Bernie Dwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith argued that markets are governed by an \u2018invisible hand\u2019 and thus should be subject to minimal government interference, to allow said free markets to facilitate sustained economic growth. Letting the free market be king, queen and government is all very well and good when all things are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38647,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645\/revisions\/38647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}