Recent Podcast Episodes

Per Bylund discusses his recent book, The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm.

Leonidas Zelmanovitz discusses his recent book, The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions.

Jeff Deist and Jay Taylor discuss how both central banks and commercial banks are poised to change your life in some very unpleasant ways.

Jeff Deist discusses Austrian economics and the bizarre world of negative interest rates.

Hoppe shows how democratic elections often lead to bad results, and also illustrates how political democracy is often incompatible with human liberty.

Dr. Mark Thornton on The Scott Horton Show. 

Jeff Deist and Matt McCaffrey discuss Murray N. Rothbard's enduring legacy, plus the new Rothbard Reader.

This weekend, Jeff recaps his recent talk in Houston, which generated plenty of comments from libertarians, progressives, and the alt-Right.

Paul-Martin Foss explains how Mises and Rothbard understood the function of interest rates, as opposed to how central bankers use interest rates as a tool to stimulate aggregate demand.

Politics operates according to principles that would horrify us if we observed them in our private lives, and would get us arrested if we lived by them. The state can steal and call it taxation, kill and call it war, writes Lew Rockwell. 

Global markets are showing they can't handle even a tiny bit of tightening by the Federal Reserve, and other central banks are doubling down on rock-bottom interest rates, writes David Haggith. After six years of "recovery" can we ever abandon endless easy money?

The public has been successfully conditioned to view the use of cash as something suspicious. Meanwhile, thanks to growing pressure from government, private business now often considers cash to be more trouble than it's worth, writes Paul-Martin Foss. 

Thanks to our bankrupt economic policies, faith in our regime will soon be shaken whether we like it or not. Fortunately, we don't need a majority to make some changes for the better, writes Ron Paul. 

An interview with Dr. Mark Thornton on the View Point radio program.

A free-wheeling discussion of what Murray Rothbard was like as an intellectual, a scholar, and a person

Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. 

From Chapter 5: "Soviet Science". Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

From Chapter 10: "Automation". Narrated by Millian Quinteros. 

From Chapter 3: "Specific Problems: The Alleged Shortage of Scientists". Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

From Chapter 8: "Basic Research". Narrated by Millian Quinteros.