Recent Podcast Episodes

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

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

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

Featuring Garrison, Hülsmann, Long, Herbener, Gordon, and Salerno. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Is consumer product regulation necessary or does the free market have superior alternatives?

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

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

Featuring Garrison, Hülsmann, Long, Herbener, Gordon, and Salerno. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

In defense of tax loopholes and other things that horrify “mainstream” economists. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Compares and contrasts the principles and performance of alternative international monetary systems, including the classical gold standard, the gol

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free trade and the international division of labor are the prerequisites for civilized society, which is why the state has always waged war against

Explains the contributions of Mises and Rothbard to the development of modern economic thought.

The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners, who frequently did all they could to sabotage the adoptio