California’s Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based on Ratepayers’ Income
California’s legislature wants to combine the idea of two-part price discrimination with a soak-the-rich mentality in charging for utilities. What possibly could go wrong?
California’s legislature wants to combine the idea of two-part price discrimination with a soak-the-rich mentality in charging for utilities. What possibly could go wrong?
"Carl Menger’s writings are the closest to Randian doctrines that have ever emanated from any economist. It will follow that we should read and reread his great books."
What happens when war shuts down the Strait of Hormuz? What about the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and Baltimore harbor?
Nick Gillespie joins Bob to make the case that American Libertarians are too pessimistic.
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by Karl-Friedrich Israel to discuss the economic conditions in Europe.
While Connecticut authorities call on "experts" to help them quell the state's housing shortage, they fail to consider the policies that have caused it.
According to Marx, all ideas represent class-based interests, leaving no room for objective truth. The problem is that Marxists claim to hold to objective truth, but manage to contradict themselves.
Mark links the Global Climate change agenda to the old “Population Bomb” of the 1970s.
Bob was invited to Oklahoma State, where he made the case, from scratch, for a voluntary society with privately provided legal and defense services.
A discussion of the 1974 South Royalton Conference on Austrian Economics by those who attended.
Senior Fellow Jörg Guido Hülsmann joins Ryan and Tho to talk about his new book on the economics of generosity, charity, and abundance.
Ryan and Zach talk about the signs that the West is slowly abandoning its goal of total victory over Russia in Ukraine.
While “wokeness” seems to be a new phenomenon, the problems are tied to a sixty-year-old “landmark” law: the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This law, unfortunately, promotes government tyranny in the name of freedom.
When someone makes the “roads” argument for the presence of government, they fail to point out that the final government product is substandard and often a hazard to people who use those roads. There is a better way.
The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.
The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Steven and Cassandra Torello.
The Friedrich A. Hayek Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Donald and Judy Rembert.
Ryan McMaken joins Bob to discuss his recent talk on secession at Oklahoma State University.
Mark shares the latest episode in the Mises Institute's The Costs of the Progressives video series, "The Drug War," which cites Mark's research on the economics of prohibition.
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by Marcel Gautreau to discuss the situation unfolding in Haiti.