Ex.Haust Podcast: Did the Industrial Revolution even happen?

Scholar John Constable joins Emmet to discuss his recent lecture given at the Mont Pelerin Society last year entitled, “Misconceptions of the ‘Industrial Revolution’: Prospects for Individual Liberty in the Post-Pandemic Era.” They discuss the discursive fiction of the “Industrial Revolution” and its uses, the green energy transition’s misguidedness, economics’ backwardness, why energy is the key to societal wealth and freedom, and more!

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