Even An-Caps Sometimes Give the State Too Much Credit
Bob Murphy points out a common fallacy among even self-described anarcho-capitalists, when they blame a social problem on "too little government."
Recent Podcast Episodes
End School Compulsory-Attendance Laws
Just as people shouldn’t be forced to send their children to church, they shouldn’t be forced to send their children to a state-approved organization for secular education and training.
The Welfare State is Tearing Sweden Apart
The welfare state is a key ingredient in sowing social mistrust and discord among diverse groups in Sweden.
Why Single-Payer Healthcare Is So Bad
Compared to other types of universal healthcare systems, what we call "single-payer" healthcare is possibly the worst of all.
Scott Horton Discusses Who’s to Blame in Venezuela, and Explains the Carnage in the Middle East
Scott Horton returns to the podcast to share his wealth of knowledge on a variety of topics—including his unhappiness with Bob's recent episode on Ilhan Omar.
Mainstream Media’s War on Julian Assange
The Bill of Rights doesn't mention that freedom of speech is restricted to a special class of establishment journalists. Freedom of speech is a universal property right, regardless of what the establishment-media gatekeepers say.
Bitcoin, Gold, and the Battle for Sound Money
Bitcoin is a shot across the bow at government’s monopoly control of money. While no one in the US appreciates the direction money is going, others are waking up.
Can 12th-Century Medicine Save 21st-Century Health Care?
Accad and Koka interview Dr. Victoria Sweet, author of the best-sellers God’s Hotel and Slow Medicine, two of the most important books on medicine in recent times.
Elizabeth Warren Shows Us Why Government Must Get Out of the Student Loan Business
Under Warren's plan for higher education, Warren won’t make you go to college — but she’ll make you pay for it.
The Unseen Costs of “Medicare for All”
Many of the worst costs that will come with "Medicare for All" won't be calculated in dollars. They'll come in the form of doctor shortages, long wait times, and less access to care.
Tucker Carlson and AOC Are Wrong About Christianity and Usury
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks Christian theology supports her bill on excessive interest. Her position ignores the actual history of Christian views of usury.
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Andy Duncan joins Jeff to review an overlooked classic by Mises:The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality.
Harvard Astronomy Chair Avi Loeb Explains the Physics of Black Holes
Bob Murphy interviews Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and Chair of the Astronomy Department at Harvard, and founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative.
The Meaning of Competition
Competition is a process of the formation of opinion: by spreading information, it creates that unity and coherence of the economic system which we presuppose when we think of it as one market.
The Lesson
The whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence.
The Broken Window
The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics.
The Gateway Drug Myth
The Time magazine article creating "the gateway drug" myth in the 1970s provided no citations for its claims, except ambiguous references to unnamed “experts.” The evidence remains elusive forty years later.
The Elite Under Capitalism
In a free society there is no other means to avoid the evils resulting from one's fellows' bad judgment than to induce them to alter their ways of life voluntarily. Where there is freedom, this is the task incumbent upon the elite.
The Individual in Society
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
