Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)
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We'd love to hear from you. Today is September 17th, 2025, and my guest is political scientist Anthony Gill of the University of Washington. This is Tony's third appearance on the program. He was last year in November of 2017 talking about tipping. Our topic for today is shampoo, something I really have no interest in, but actually we're going to talk about something much deeper and profound, and I am pretty sure you, the listeners, will find it as interesting as I did when I read an essay of
of Tony's in the Library of Economics and Liberty, which hosts Econ Talk, and we will put that essay up online. Tony, welcome back to Econ Talk. Thanks. Glad to be here. And I love shampoo.
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