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Cato Video • August 23, 2007 

# featuring John Lott, author of *Freedomnomics*. 

Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages duplicity in our everyday transactions? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense? In *Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t*, economist and bestselling author John R. Lott Jr. addresses these and other common economic questions, confronting some of the misconceptions about markets created by the bestselling book *Freakonomics*. His comments came at a [Cato Institute book forum August 14, 2007](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3996). 

(See the full event: [*Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t*](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3996).) 

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##### John R. Lott, Jr. 

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