Recent Podcast Episodes

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

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.

Compares Austrian and mainstream views of prediction and their relative success. 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

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

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

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

What is the corporate form of organization, where did it come from, how does it work, and do corporations take advantage of consumers, investors, a

Shows how Austrian economics is basis of Skyscraper Index, which has correctly predicted most economic and housing crises of 20th century.

Contrasts Chicago school’s focus on “macroeconomic variations of substantial size and frequency” with Austrian school’s focus on “market forces hid

Problems of international development aid and the domestic welfare state. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Implications of economizing time and time preference in human action; the nature of uncertainty and the role of uncertainty and risk in human actio

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mises Institute founder and chairman, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 

Logical mistakes in common economic arguments; confusions about use of ethics in economics. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Employs graphical analysis to demonstrate many ways in which US minimum-wage legislation caters to special interests and exploits voters’ lack of e