# Ep. 60: Middle Easterners Invented Entrepreneurship (with Nima Sanandaji) **URL:** **By** Anthony Comegna **Published:** June 26, 2018 --- Dr. Nima Sanandaji joins us this week to explain how and why ancient Middle Easterners invented capitalism and entrepreneurship. Dr. Nima Sanandaji has a PhD in Engineering from Stockholm's Royal Institute, and he has written over 20 books on policy, philosophy, current affairs and history. He joins me now to talk about his latest, "The Birthplace of Capitalism," which explains how and why ancient Middle Easterners invented capitalism and entrepreneurship. ## Further Reading: [Nima Sanandaji’s Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Sanandaji) His latest book, [The Birthplace of Capitalism: The Middle East,](https://timbro.se/forlag/birthplace-capitalism-middle-east/) Timbro (2018) [Dr. Sanandaji’s 2016 speech on Nordic socialism at the Cato Institute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Gzr3zKlBM) [Roderick Long joins Free Thoughts](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/rituals-of-freedom-libertarian-themes-in-early-confucianism) to talk about libertarian themes in Confucianism Music by Kai Engel