Ep. 60: Middle Easterners Invented Entrepreneurship (with Nima Sanandaji)

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 entryHis latest book, The Birthplace of Capitalism: The Middle East, Timbro (2018)Dr. Sanandaji’s 2016 speech on Nordic socialism at the Cato InstituteRoderick Long joins Free Thoughts to talk about libertarian themes in ConfucianismMusic by Kai Engel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.