Recent Podcast Episodes

Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

Indeed, deplorable conditions existed, but one must not blame the factory owners, who did all they could to eradicate them.

Whatever their motives may have been, whatever at any given moment they thought of themselves as doing, Anthony Ashley Cooper and John Locke advanced the libertarian idea, just as John Lilburne did. All three of them are part of the libertarian tradition.

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of the forthcoming online Mises Academy course, “The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law,&

Free trade and free markets, through the harmony of reciprocal benefits, advance the interest and happiness of all by each seeking his own personal

This socialist or communist doctrine of “class struggle” fails entirely to take into account the essential difference between the condi

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) contravenes every principle of civilized society, both in its content and in the nature of the proce

Includes remarks and presentations by Douglas French, Joseph Salerno, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, and Dario Fernandez.

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Compares Austrian and mainstream views of prediction and their relative success. Recorded at Mises University 2010

How a free market in law enforcement and military defense could work. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Contrast Austrian Welfare Economics with alternative approaches including Pareto Optimality and Kaldor-Hicks. Recorded at Mises Universi

Showing that Milton Friedman’s criticism of Austrian apriorism and his criticism of the Austrian rejection of unrealistic economic models are roote

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S.

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Featuring Block, DiLorenzo, Klein, Thornton, Terrell, Woods, and Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on the origins of fiat money systems, explaining the transition from commodity money to commercial bank notes and deposits, and fr

An Austrian take on network externalities, QWERTY effects, the economics of information, intellectual property, and the history of technology.

Featuring Block, DiLorenzo, Klein, Thornton, Terrell, Woods, and Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Defending “methodological dualism” [the view that natural science and social science require different methods] from both its positivist critics an