Recent Podcast Episodes
Libertarian Perspectives on IP
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
Property Rights: Tangible and Intangible
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
IP and Property Rights
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
Appendix: Some Questionable Examples of Patents and Copyrights
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
Thomas Paine: From Pirate to Revolutionary
Paine became a privateer in 1753 to locate and rob enemy ships in order to escape his family business - corset making. The blunt but brilliant Paine was helped by Benjamin Franklin to join the American Revolution as editor and writer. Common Sense was a huge success...
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.
2. Supply and Demand
In this lecture in 1972, supply and demand concepts included: preferences of consumers, prices, quantity, quality, elasticity, equilibrium, marginal utility, present goods, and production processes.
7. Pricing of the Factors of Production
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
12. Conservation and Property Rights
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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.
