Recent Podcast Episodes

No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.

In 1962, despite professional and institutional obstacles, Man, Economy, and State was finally published. With it, Rothbard greatly advanced the Austrian tradition and firmly positioned himself as Mises’s heir.

With advances in the Austrian theory of the business cycle, Rothbard finally completed the monumental task of deducing the entire corpus of economic theory using the praxeological method.

Murray Rothbard’s project drastically changed in mid-1953. Unable to rely on Mises’s sparse treatment of production theory, Rothbard adopted his old Marshallian approach, focusing on an individual firm that faced fixed prices and restricted investment decisions.

Murray Rothbard’s economic perspective changed significantly in 1949 when he met Ludwig von Mises and read his magnum opus, Human Action. 

Murray Rothbard started his career with a foundational training in neoclassical economics. 

Murray N . Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist is written for everyone interested in Rothbard’s economic theory and Austrian economics in general. 

After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead.

This book has been several years in the making. Originally we envisioned it as a collection of letters and unpublished monographs from the Rothbard Papers at the Mises Institute.

In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse.

The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to housing construction in California.

The up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the state, do not operate apart from state interference.

For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither inequality nor economics.

In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan sits down with Mark Thornton to talk through the economic trends fueling today's unrest.

Mark Thornton updates the Stocks versus Manure contest, then explains why gold’s correction may be temporary, and why democratic socialism attracts young voters with failed answers to real problems.

Murray Rothbard wasn't born an Austrian economist. Patrick Newman on how a Columbia-trained mainstream PhD became Mises's heir—in the hundredth year since Rothbard's birth.

The Policy and History faculty panel takes student questions on the state of the movement and the prospects for freedom.

The Theory and Method faculty panel takes questions from Mises University students.

Build a model no real market could ever match, call it the ideal, then diagnose every real market as a failure for falling short. Jonathan Newman on the equilibrium trap Mises warned against.

The US has 20 to 30 million government regulations. Big corporations have legal departments. Startups have you. Mark Thornton on who the "regulatory thicket" is really built to protect.