Recent Podcast Episodes

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

The liberal phase of the French Revolution—the part an American would recognize—lasted about six months. Everything after was its opposite. Ryan McMaken on why liberalism keeps getting blamed for a Terror it didn't cause.

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.

The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it. For them, decentralization and secession were potential solutions not problems in ending slavery.

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that private property is the indispensable cornerstone of liberty and civilization, and that anti-discrimination laws—however well-intentioned—are a form of aggression against property.

Strip away the mystique and ChatGPT is a next-word predictor with some randomness—the same trick as the spell-checker asking if you meant "dog." Peter Klein on the economics of AI, minus the hype.

The Singer Building and the panic of 1907. The Empire State and the Depression. The Burj Khalifa and 2008. Lucas Engelhardt on why the world's tallest buildings keep opening at exactly the wrong moment.

Tuition is up 1,200% since 1980. Enrollment is about to fall off a cliff. Peter Klein argues the real problem isn't any of the things people usually name.

Successful entrepreneurs are all Austrians, Per Bylund says. They just never had the words for it.

Tate Fegley uses Joseph Salerno's work to draw out the fundamental differences between Mises and Hayek arguing that treating the two as interchangeable obscures the distinctly Misesian paradigm.

Per Bylund takes up Mises's claim that the entrepreneur-promoter cannot be defined praxeologically.

Even in a world of gold, silver, and costly mining, whoever got the new money first still came out ahead. Jeffrey Degner on why hard money doesn't repeal the Cantillon effect, and why fiat makes it far worse.

A book so dangerous it couldn't be printed: it passed hand to hand in manuscript for twenty-five years. Mark Thornton on the underground text that founded modern economics.

Norway sits on large oil deposits, yet has managed to avoid the “resource curse” that has bedeviled so many nations that have abundant natural resources, but severely mismanage their economies.

"Their red ink is your black ink." Jonathan Newman on what MMT leaves out; namely, how the government actually makes the payment.