Dr. Robert Murphy on the Jordan Peterson Podcast
Over the last several years, as Jordan Peterson rose to international fame, many thoughtful individuals in the Mises Institute orbit have voiced an appreciation for how Peterson’s work may complement the Austrian tradition. Some have written on the topic, including Jonathan Newman who noted in 2018:
When a Fallacy Isn’t Really a Fallacy
Students often ask me to recommend a good introduction to philosophy, and now the question can be answered more easily than in years past. Michael Huemer’s Knowledge, Value, and Reality, published last April, contains a profusion of arguments on important topics and is written in a conversational style that is easy to follow, and is often very funny as well. Huemer is especially good at coming up with objections and counters to these objections, in a way that shows how contemporary analytic philosophers work.
We Don’t Need a Central Bank to Deal with Changes in the “Demand for Money”
Historically, many different goods have been used as money. On this, Ludwig von Mises observed that, over time,
Where Prices Come From: Menger Explains
Don’t Be Fooled by the Fed’s Taper Talk
Lithuania’s Crackdown on the Unvaccinated
Happy Hour May Be Getting a Little Happier
An End to the Bizarre CDC Rent Moratorium
The “transitory” inflation swamping the country has stubbornly persisted into July. Producer prices posted a second straight 1 percent month-over-month increase, which brought the full-year number to a record 7.8 percent. Twelve-month US export prices rose 17.2 percent, and nearly 22 percent if the rate of the first seven months of 2021 were annualized.
Compounding Shortfalls in Innovation
Curt Carlson, the world’s leading authority on innovation and how to implement it, worries that the US is under-performing on this front – badly.
On LinkedIn, he writes: