Recent Podcast Episodes

Lucas Engelhardt challenges conventional applications of game theory by integrating the Austrian perspective on entrepreneurship.

Cwik and Ritenour revisit the often-overlooked "forgotten Austrians" who extended Mengerian economics beyond Vienna.

At the recent WNBA All-Star game, players wore T-shirts with the message, “Pay us what you owe us.” If one uses the discounted marginal revenue product as a guide, the answer to their demand would be “zero.”

When the covid madness was imposed upon the world five years ago, the lockdown advocates claimed they were just “doing science.” In reality, they were ignoring science, lying, and just “doing totalitarian politics.”

The Constitution was crafted to centralize political power and protect elite economic interests.

Inflation is a systematic distortion of economic signals.

Tate Fegley explains how the absence of market signals leaves public policing blind to real-world tradeoffs.

Shawn Ritenour critiques mainstream growth models that emphasize abstract inputs like capital accumulation and technological innovation, arguing instead for a human-centered approach rooted in Austrian economics.

Wanjiru Njoya cuts through critical race theory dogma to show how liberty, not legislation, lifts up the marginalized.

Moral squeamishness isn't a market failure.

Timothy Terrell tackles the most common objections to capitalism, from inequality myths to profit “villainy,” and offers a principled, empirical defense of market institutions and voluntary exchange.

In the wake of the US bombing of Iran, media outlets are warning about Iran retaliating with cyber attacks on the West. As the public fear of attacks increases, government moves into the void to find new ways to restrict our liberties.

The Democrats are performing an autopsy of their 2024 electoral failures, but without mentioning Biden, the Harris campaign, their alienation of certain demographics, or their polarizing positions.

The minimum wage is harmful, racist, sexist, and completely unnecessary.

Competition is a relentless, dynamic process of entrepreneurship and discovery.

Paul Cwik explains how artificial credit expansion triggers unsustainable booms and inevitable busts.

Capital goods shape civilization itself.

The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence. Rather, the answer lies in peaceful separation.

A modern socialist economy is impossible.

Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.