Recent Podcast Episodes

When Jean-Baptiste Colbert died on September 6, 1683, there was celebration throughout France.

Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities.

Responds to criticism of Austrian business cycle theory and “Puritan” policy recommendations. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Graphical demonstration that relaxing three critical-but-implausible assumptions underlying Keynes’s theorizing allows the Keynesian framework to m

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

If the blackmail offer is rejected, the blackmailer may exercise his rights of free speech and publicize the secret. There is nothing amiss here.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

As Barnes noted, there were a number of "middle-class writers" who took more or less this line, but "by far the most influential" of them "was the 17th-century English philosopher, John Locke. Many of his theories were taken up and popularized in America by Thomas Jefferson...

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French, and the presentation of the 2009 George F.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.