"Manufacturing Militarism" Book Panel

On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we'll hear a book panel discussion of "Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror," written by Christopher J. Coyne & Abigail R. Hall. Applying a political-economic approach to the incentives created by a democratic system with a massive national security state, Coyne and Hall delve into case studies from the War on Terror to show how propaganda operates in a democracy. Peter Boettke moderates the panel, which is joined by two commentators — Randall G. Holcombe, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, and Risa Brooks, Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University.

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The Hayek Program Podcast includes audio from lectures, interviews, and discussions of scholars and visitors from the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The F. A. Hayek Program is devoted to the promotion of teaching and research on the institutional arrangements that are suitable for the support of free and prosperous societies. Implicit in this statement is the presumption that those arrangements are to some extent open to conscious selection, as well as the appreciation that the type of arrangements that are selected within a society can influence significantly the economic, political, and moral character of that society.