Recent Podcast Episodes
15. Money and the Balance of Payments
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
3. Advertising
Advertising has always had bad press with economists, but consumers discover that a product either works and works well, or it doesn't. Consumer wants are not artificially created by business itself.
16. Banking and the Business Cycle
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
4. Price Controls
Price controls — triangular interventions — occur when an intervener (generally government) either compels a pair of people to make an exchange or prohibits them from making an exchange.
Bimetallic Nightmare
Congress decreed that gold and silver dollars should be interchangeable and put upon the Treasury a mandate to keep them equal in value. How?
Government Against Capitalists
The governments of almost all countries are engaged in a campaign against the capitalists.
The Economics of Calvin and Calvinism
John Calvin’s main contribution to the usury question was in having the courage to dump the prohibition altogether.
Yevgeny Zamyatin: Libertarian Novelist
Ultimately, he and the woman are caught, imprisoned, and tortured. In the end, he is sincerely repentant of his crimes and is completely devoted to the all-encompassing government that has done him all this harm.
11. The Structure of Production
As factors of production, supply and demand of labor, land and capital will determine how much the producer will get out of this process. This process occurs in different stages.
14. Interest Rates and Course Review
The time market determines the pure rate of interest. Price per unit of time may be wages or rent. The interest income will be earned by the capitalist who has assumed the task of advancing present money.
