Mark Thornton Inspires BBC Radio Episode on Prohibition

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10/09/2019 Power & Market Tho Bishop

Recently, the BBC produced a radio series on "50 Things That Made the Modern Economy". One episode focused on the economics of prohibition, crediting the work of Mark Thornton's Economics of Prohibition for helping write the script for the show.

The episode is available here.

Dr. Thornton's book is available here.

(Thanks to Bob Broadfoot for letting us know!)

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