Isaiah’s Job
Albert Jay Nock wrote, “The only element in Judean society that was particularly worth bothering about was the Remnant.
Recent Podcast Episodes
Rothbard as Historian
Rothbard could have been acclaimed for just his works in history, without all his contributions to economics. The Panic of 1819, America's Great Depression, Conceived In Liberty, History of Economic Thought, and A History of Money and Banking are each structured upon Rothbard's theory of power and liberty.
Introduction to Man, Economy, and State
The publication in 1962 of Rothbard's magnum opus rescued economic science from self-destruction. Menger's causal-realist approach had been nearly buried by the Keynesian Revolution. Keynesian macroeconomics denied the efficacy of the price system altogether in coordinating the various sectors of an economy confronted with the failure of aggregate demand.
Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism
From “Capitalism the Creator: The Mises Circle in Seattle,” a Curt and Allora Doolittle Seminar. Recorded 17 May 2008.
The Economics of a Free Society
There will come a day that the world financiers will rush from dollars just as they have recently rushed into dollars, causing even worse chaos in
Challenge to America: A Current Assessment of Our Republic
The cliché “Third Way” has been used to define the so-called compromise between the conventional wisdom of the conservative and liberal
34. The Rise of the Fisheries and the Merchants
Pages 267-270 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
35. Theocracy Begins to Wither: The Half-Way Covenant
Pages 271-272 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
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
33. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Subsidized Production
Pages 263-266 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
32. Mercantilism, Merchants, and “Class Conflict”
Pages 260-262 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.
Hayek Speaks to Europe
The F. A. Hayek Memorial Lecture. From the 2008 Austrian Scholars Conference at the Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama.
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
Pages 237-250 in the text, as narrated by. Floy Lilley.
