Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Richard Epstein, professor of law at the University of Chicago and NYU, addresses himself to the question of the day: What caused the economic crisis? In a word, Epstein replies, the government, which interferred where it had no business – and proved weak when it should have proven strong. The government incentives were perverse, so the actions of the private parties were perverse.

Are you listening, Timothy Geithner?

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