{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e3852cbdb67c0f94f393857/5e38537d94ec4b4a36d44778?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"WTF?! Economics (with Peter T. Leeson)","description":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Peter T. Leeson joins us to talk about his new book <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/WTF-Economic-Peter-T-Leeson/dp/1503600912\"><em>WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird</em></a>. Peter T. Leeson is the Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University. We discuss some of the world’s strangest customs and behaviors; everything from convicting insects of crimes in a court of law to wife sales. How can this be rational economic behavior?</p><h3 dir=\"ltr\">Further Readings/References:</h3><p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/WTF-Economic-Peter-T-Leeson/dp/1503600912\">WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird by Peter T. Leeson</a></p><p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https://www.libertarianism.org/explore?searchquery=%22peter+t+leeson%22\">More work by Peter T. Leeson</a></p>","author_name":"Libertarianism.org"}