Recent Podcast Episodes
Is Our Future Really $0?
Chris Anderson, a well-known business guru in the world of online commerce, imagines a world in which all internet services are free.
Minimum Wage Debate
Dr. Block and Dr. Jared Bernstein (Economic Policy Institute) debate the minimum wage on 8 March 2008.
Does Money Taint Everything?
Let’s pull this sentence out of the civic pieties of our time and see what’s wrong with it: “We should all volunteer our time in
Hayek Speaks to Europe
The F. A. Hayek Memorial Lecture. From the 2008 Austrian Scholars Conference at the Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama.
32. Mercantilism, Merchants, and “Class Conflict”
Pages 260-262 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
33. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Subsidized Production
Pages 263-266 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Natural Disasters, It Turns Out, Are Bad
It seems that we may never rid ourselves of the broken-window fallacy, writes Mark Thornton.
31. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Wage and Price Controls
Pages 254-259 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Rethinking IP Completely
The Rothbard Memorial Lecture, from the 2008 Austrian Scholars Conference at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama.
29. Suppressing Heresy: Massachesetts Persecutes the Quakers
30. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: Disintegration of the Fur Monopoly
Pages 251-253 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Unintended Consequences in the Process of Socializing Health Care
The movement towards socialized medicine is strong but widely misunderstood.
27. Joint Action in New England: The Pequot War
Pages 227-229 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
24. Rhode Island in the 1650s: Roger Williams’ Shift from Liberty
Pages 210-217 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Has Capitalism Failed?
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had it. Capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank.