Recent Podcast Episodes
Feet to the Fire: The New Media and the Elites
Declan McCullagh presents Feet to the Fire: The New Media and the Elites at the 2007 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Authors Forum: “Lincoln Unmasked”
Thomas J. DiLorenzo presents “Lincoln Unmasked” at the 2007 Austrian Scholars Conference Authors Forum.
Authors Forum: “Anarchy and Law”
Edward Stringham presents “Anarchy and Law” at the 2007 Austrian Scholars Conference Authors Forum.
Authors Forum: “Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress”
Randall G. Holcombe presents “Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress” at the 2007 Austrian Scholars Conference Authors Forum.
13. Welfare Programs and the Great Society
From 1950 to 1980, Americans were indeed Losing Ground. Charles Murray’s book on social policy debunks welfare programs. The programs are the problem. It is not possible to design a wealth transfer program that will not produce net harm.
12. Civil Rights and the Supreme Court
The doctrine was separate but equal according to the Constitution. Segregation was not unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education consolidated several cases about separation, and stated that if schools were separate they were, ipso facto, not equal.
2007 Mises Entrepreneurship Award
Presented to Mr. Robert L. Luddy, Founder and President of Captive-Aire Systems, Inc., on 2 March 2007. Includes remarks by Llewellyn H.
11. The History of Foreign Aid Programs
The Marshall Plan didn’t help get Europe back on its feet: free markets did. The Plan was another failed giveaway program. The Plan’s disastrous legacy was the wrongheaded approach it inspired in foreign aid programs for the rest of the century.
10. The Economics of the New Deal and World War II
While many Americans were hungry and destitute, FDR ordered the slaughter of six million pigs and the destruction of ten million acres of cotton. Public-sector jobs created by the New Deal displaced or destroyed private-sector jobs. World War II didn’t end the Great Depression; a return to free-market activity after the war did.
Walter Block, Second Guest Appearance on “Our Story”
This is Professor Block’s second appearance on the “Our Story” television program, hosted by W. C. Johnson.
Luxury Condos? The Housing Bubble Comes to Auburn
Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 17 February 2007.
Crime and Drugs
Professor Block is interviewed on a special television report on Channel 6, WDSU; New Orleans, Louisiana