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Economics

You Don't Need a Bread Czar to Know that the Bakery Will Be Stocked Every Morning

Watch Russ Roberts' animated ode to the magic of markets, "It's a Wonderful Loaf"

Matt Welch | 6.28.2017 12:15 PM

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Russ Roberts, no stranger to these pages, has long been one of the great explainers of markets and economics. So it comes as no surprise that an animated poem about the wonders of bottom-up bread markets—in contrast to the errors of top-down wheat planning—has Roberts' fingerprints (and voice) all over it. Without further ado, enjoy "It's a Wonderful Loaf":

You can consume more manna from Roberts at his great podcast EconTalk, his personal website, on Twitter, and at Medium, where this week he's been taking the latest book-length attack on libertarianism to the woodshed.

In 2014, Nick Gillespie sat down withi Roberts to talk about his just-released book, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness. You can watch that interview below:

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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