Philosophy and Methodology

Berns thinks America has a fundamental problem: he believes not enough people in America are willing to sacrifice their lives to the state.

Murray Rothbard explains that anarcho-communists' longing for a preindustrial primitivism would mean starvation and death for nearly all of mankind and a grinding subsistence for the ones remaining.

Presented at Mises University 2020.

Ultimately, the case for equality doesn’t amount to more than “You must believe in equality—because you must!”

In this paper, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe offers an examination of the theory of public goods.

Information on consumer sentiment is potentially helpful, but only insofar as sentiment reflects the reality of the economic situation.

The Constitution is a dead letter. The only way to save its ideals is to rebuild the ideology behind it—laissez-faire liberalism—from the ground up.

Providing the opening for Mises’s great methodological work gave Rothbard the opportunity to set down his perspective on the importance of the praxeological method.

The division of labor promotes peaceful exchange and continues peace. But this can all break down when governments intervene to prevent peaceful interaction and when government incompetence promotes violence.

Rothbard fans, this is the podcast you don't want to miss! Patrick Newman joins Jeff Deist to kick off a series of shows featuring Rothbard's landmark treatise Man, Economy, and State.