July 10, Robert Lawson, SMU Cox Business, O’Neil Center, on a new co-authored book, “Socialism Sucks” in Orange County Register and several other Southern Cal titles: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/07/10/socialism-makes-for-bad-beer/
https://www.sbsun.com/2019/07/10/socialism-makes-for-bad-beer/
Socialism is a hot topic these days. Democratic presidential wannabes, including Bernie Sanders, say they’re for it, and recent polls indicate about 40% of American young people are, too.
Over the last few years, my buddy Ben Powell, who is a professor of economics at Texas Tech, and I toured the world, drank a lot of beer, and saw for ourselves how things are going in former and current socialist nations. It turns out the quality and availability of beer in each of these countries is an accurate, at-a-glance way to assess their political systems.