Episode 220 - The history & future of capitalism with Dr. Alan Green

All right, huge thanks to Dr.

Green for his time.

I hope people could hear in our voices at the end there how much that we really enjoyed this.

Ricky and I have this chat on Zoom while the conversation is happening, and we were just going back and forth being like, this guy is awesome.

He's just so... fun and easy to informative, like all of the things that you would want from a guest, from a teacher.

I guess it's not surprising that he's a teacher, a writer, a professor, that he's able to distill these complex issues in such a digestible and interesting way.

At least for us, we'd love to hear what people think, thought of that conversation.

So please reach out with any feedback you have.

Ricky, I just thought like there were so many times throughout that conversation that I felt like he was a perfect guest for us and that, I don't know, I don't know where he stands personally in terms of...

I guess he's an economist, right? So maybe he doesn't even have...

He's just here to study it objectively because he's throwing things out.

I feel like there was something for you.

He would talk so positively about the importance of renewable energy, and then he would talk about something for me.

It's important that the debt's too high right now.

And he would take maybe little jabs at Reagan, but also take a jab at LBJ, and a jab at Israel, but also a jab at the Soviet Union.

So all of these... kind of like pet things that you and I have.

I feel like they were all mentioned.

Even we got a good conversation about the Gilded Age, which as you referenced, that we did an episode back in January of this year about the Gilded Age.

So rehashing that conversation, I bring that to the front of our mind.

That was super fun.

He was super generous with his time, so I don't want to belabor any of the points, but just curious of any... big picture thoughts or takeaways you had from that conversation.

Yeah.

I mean, Dr.

Green was certainly a man after our own hearts, I think just in terms of how he like weaves the, the context of, of everything into, into how, into, into how things play out and that these aren't the things that we ascribe these kind of causal relationships to have histories born out that that's not that way.

I mean, the particular jab at you that I enjoyed was that, you know, Reagan gets a little bit too much credit for...

All right, huge thanks to Dr.

Green for his time.

I hope people could hear in our voices at the end there how much that we really enjoyed this.

Ricky and I have this chat on Zoom while the conversation is happening, and we were just going back and forth being like, this guy is awesome.

He's just so... fun and easy to informative, like all of the things that you would want from a guest, from a teacher.

I guess it's not surprising that he's a teacher, a writer, a professor, that he's able to distill these complex issues in such a digestible and interesting way.

At least for us, we'd love to hear what people think, thought of that conversation.

So please reach out with any feedback you have.

Ricky, I just thought like there were so many times throughout that conversation that I felt like he was a perfect guest for us and that, I don't know, I don't know where he stands personally in terms of...

I guess he's an economist, right? So maybe he doesn't even have...

He's just here to study it objectively because he's throwing things out.

I feel like there was something for you.

He would talk so positively about the importance of renewable energy, and then he would talk about something for me.

It's important that the debt's too high right now.

And he would take maybe little jabs at Reagan, but also take a jab at LBJ, and a jab at Israel, but also a jab at the Soviet Union.

So all of these... kind of like pet things that you and I have.

I feel like they were all mentioned.

Even we got a good conversation about the Gilded Age, which as you referenced, that we did an episode back in January of this year about the Gilded Age.

So rehashing that conversation, I bring that to the front of our mind.

That was super fun.

He was super generous with his time, so I don't want to belabor any of the points, but just curious of any... big picture thoughts or takeaways you had from that conversation.

Yeah.

I mean, Dr.

Green was certainly a man after our own hearts, I think just in terms of how he like weaves the, the context of, of everything into, into how, into, into how things play out and that these aren't the things that we ascribe these kind of causal relationships to have histories born out that that's not that way.

I mean, the particular jab at you that I enjoyed was that, you know, Reagan gets a little bit too much credit for...