Recent Podcast Episodes

Part of the Brown Bag Seminar series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 10 February 2005.

Presented to Dr. Brad Birzer’s seminar on “American Order and Disorder,” Hillsdale College, on 9 February 2005.

Blockade boat owners turned to engines for speed instead of sails. Blockade running became more expensive as the blockade became stricter. Certain prices increased much faster and higher.  Most goods desired in the South had to be imported.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on February 3, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 3 February 2005.

Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama; 5-6 February 1999.

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Atlanta, Georgia; 26-27 September 1997.

Tariffs were generally favorable for the North and unfavorable for the South. They were a key political battle for forty years. The Union General Scott developed the anaconda plan to squeeze the breath out of the South. The Union Blockade was the first part of that plan. This battle at sea won the war for the Union. The land battle was a stalemate.

Presented as part of the Austrian Workshop seminar series. Recorded at Pebble Hill (Auburn, Alabama) on 17 November 1997.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on January 27, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

Opportunity cost is the proper economic basis for specialization and trade in resources. Opportunity cost is the highest value you give up when you make a choice. It was Confederate government policy that caused misallocations on the part of the South, making it inefficient and wasteful. A few of those bad policies were: drafting soldiers, confiscating resources, and monetary inflation.

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on 20 January 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

The Economics of the Civil War should instruct us in ways that the history of the Civil War might not. Cotton had much to do with what the war was about. Slavery as a cause of the Civil War is a modern development. How did the Union win the war? How did the aftermath of the war affect our own lives? What lessons can benefit us?

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Presented as part of the Brown Bag Seminar series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 13 January 2005.

Recorded 14 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Recorded 14 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Delivered to the Hillsdale Liberals, Hillsdale College, on 31 August 2004.