Recent Podcast Episodes

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

Discusses difficulties presented by government intervention into medical care in two parts: the problems of regulation of pharmaceuticals, and broa

An open discussion of school and career options for Austrians in academia, journalism, policy analysis, and related fields.

Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and indiv

Why value-subjectivism in economics doesn’t imply value-subjectivism in ethics, and might even imply the reverse.

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

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on the theory of pure interest, discussing its pros and cons as compared to other theories, and its relationship with capital theo

Why government is inherently wealth-destroying, compared to free-market entrepreneurship, the source of wealth creaton.

Austrian critique of mainstream analysis of monopoly, monopsony, and perfect competition; the logical contradictions of anti-trust law.

Links between liberty, morality, and economic growth and moral objections to capitalism as greed. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Looks at causes of the 1929 crash and ensuing depression, with lessons for today. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on monetary mechanisms in a growing economy, stressing the central role of debt, and discussing alternative ways to deal with infl

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.