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EconTalk · 2025-09-15 · 65 min · 11,357 words

How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)

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Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is July twenty fourth, and my guest is engineer and writer Brider of the Institute for Progress, where he is a senior Infrastructure fellow he writes the construction physics. Substack.

Which is a Fascinating collection of essays and posts. related to a wide range of topics in Engineering, construction Various other topics.

Our topic for today is one How to build Three hundred thousand airplanes in five years. Uh Brian, welcome to Econ Talk.

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