# Ideas, Human Action, and Social Change

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/ideas-human-action-and-social-change>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** August 24, 2016

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George H. Smith explores various ways in which ideas influence human action, and why ideas are essential to the success of libertarianism.

[Originally published in essay form on January 3, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/ideas-human-action-social-change)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._