Recent Podcast Episodes

Why has Böhm-Bawerk been attacked by “nihilist” forces within Austrianism?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:38]

How do recessions end?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:39]

How do the theories of Mises and Hayek differ?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:35]

What theories opposed the currency schools’ view of the business cycle?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

What about the Chicago school (Milton Friedman)?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:30]

Why doesn’t a collapse or recession occur quickly when the money supply is expanded?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:46]

How did World War I affect the world’s reliance on the gold standard?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

What is the incentive problem under socialism?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:48]

What is fractional reserve banking?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

What was Menger’s basic contribution?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:50]

Why was the intial response to Mises’s work so poor in America?

07/13/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

[:37]

An Interview with Walter Block

07/10/2009 • Walter Block

Interviewed by Jeff Crouere on the “Ringside: Politics With a Punch” program, WGSO 990AM, New Orleans; 9 July 2009.

When Stimulus Does Not Stimulate

Tags: Interventionism, Booms and Busts, Taxes and Spending

07/08/2009 • Shawn Ritenour

Obama’s stimulus plan is equivalent to a giant welfare scheme.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers

Tags: Political Theory, U.S. History

07/07/2009 • Brion McClanahan

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on January 27, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

XIV. The Scope and Method of Catallactics

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Philosophy and Methodology

07/06/2009 • Ludwig von Mises

Pages 233-245. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

XIII. Monetary Calculation as a Tool of Action

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Money and Banking, Philosophy and Methodology, Money and Banks

07/06/2009 • Ludwig von Mises

Pages 230-232. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. 

XI. Valuation Without Calculation

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory

07/02/2009 • Ludwig von Mises

Pages 201-212. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. 

42. Nonimportation in the South

Tags: U.S. History

07/02/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

Pages 184-187 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.

45. The Boston Massacre

Tags: U.S. History

07/02/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

Pages 196-202 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.

XII. The Sphere of Economic Calculation

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory

07/02/2009 • Ludwig von Mises

Pages 213-229. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.