Recent Podcast Episodes

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

 Thomas DiLorenzo presents “Our Benefactor, Capitalism”, during the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference Author&#82

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

 Thomas Woods discusses The New American History, at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference Author’s Forum.

Robert Higgs explains What the Greens and the Nationalists Have in Common at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference Author’s

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.  

 Laurence M. Vance discusses War & Morality at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference  Author’s Forum.

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

Was George Stigler sympathetic to the Austrian school? Lachmann doesn’t think so because Stigler was a favorite student of Knight. Austrians should have dealt with Keynes, instead they quarreled with Knight.

What policies do Austrians pursue? Those that favor the market.

A full-employment policy produces unemployment. Keynesian economics became the dominant theory wherein inflation was endorsed as a method of increasing aggregate demand which should boost employment.

The term Austrian will include people like Shumpeter and Morgenstern. Competition is seen as a state of affairs of perfect knowledge and equilibrium by mainstream economists. This fails to provide explanations as to how those market prices have been achieved.

Biographical remarks about Lachmann (1906-1990). Then, Lachmann describes Austrian economics as being subjectivism (individual human action), a certain attitude to time (the future is unknowable), and a distrust of macroeconomic entities (they exist, but Austrians look at macro as mechanistic).

Black reconstruction after the Civil War did much better than the dire predictions made. The black population recovered quickly. Many moved to urban areas. They deliberately had fewer children. Mortality declined. Income increased. No government assistance was handed out.

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005

Presented as part of the Brown Bag Seminar series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 3 March 2005.

There was a sea change in money and banking in the U.S. as a result of the Civil War. Government became the primary regulator. Metal coins gave way to paper. Mistakes of one bank infected others – it was contagion.

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005 Panel with Duffy, F