Socialism Sucks

Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World

By: Robert Lawson, Benjamin Powell

Narrated by: John Pruden

The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism - while drinking a lot of beer.

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Excellent fun read

My only complaint was the conclusion that open borders would benefit everyone. I highly doubt it. The United States would end up overcrowded & the theory doesn’t take into account the social ramifications of what their economic model considers to be a good thing.

entertaining and informative

even if you disagree with the authors politically, this is an informative and entertaining book that constructs it's argument with facts and real world experience...and beer.

Powerful Argument Against Socialism

The author makes extremely reasonable facts about the actual application of socialism. The best part however is at the end of the book when they go to a socialist conference and question millennials about socialism and why they support it. The results where extremely interesting.
I definitely recommend this book. It was a great listen and was concise without a lot of hard to understand vocabulary. Though it was biased against socialism, it didn’t use ‘bad’ facts to prove its points.

Excellent read, very entertaining

Felt like I was in a bar talking about the fate of the world with some old friends.

I'll drink to that

Very entertaining way of equating the success (or lack thereof) of socialist countries through the quality and variety of something that most young people can relate to, beer. It also goes into some misconceptions people have about Socialism and corrects them.