Recent Podcast Episodes

Boom, Bust, and the Future (19:39) January 18-19, 2002

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.

(30:02)

Most of what is said about nation-states is not true. They are neither democracies nor republics nor nations nor states. There is no natural relationship between government and state. Men have been governed by many things that are not states. Throughout most of history man has lived without a state.

Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (27:02)

Several court cases must be mentioned. Each makes a point. Plessey v. Ferguson: Segregation Separate but equal is ok.  Brown v. Board of Education: Separate schools are inherently unequal. Green v. County School Board of New Kent County: Freedom of choice desegregation plan unconstitutional.

Austrian economics has nothing to do with the economics of Austria. Austrian Economics (AE) began with Carl Menger in 1871. It is based on an analysis of individual action, not aggregates or groups.

The transforming ideology of the American Revolution consists of four elements: liberalism, republicanism, English law, and Protestantism. Liberalism was developed by the Levellers, saying that natural rights could be evolved from natural law.

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

James Bovard discusses Bush, Terrorism, and Freedom at the 2002 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Minimum wage laws force unemployment up. All of those with few skills looking for an entry position will be denied because they cannot add enough value to the business labor field to be paid minimum wage. Unemployment follows minimum wage hikes. Marginal workers are being denied the labor market.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (30:28)

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

The role of the intellectual is a perennial question. Why do they act the way they do? Why are they hostile to the free market? Is the state really virtuous and the market really vicious? Mises thought the anti-capitalist mentality was rooted in envy. He also thought our entire culture was soaked in contempt for money-making.

Professor Hoppe presents a pre-conference discussion of his book Democracy: The God that Failed at the 2002 Austrian Schola

Jorg Guido Hülsmann addresses some of the Problems in Cycle Theory at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Presented at the Mises Institute on June 17, 2003.

Recorded at Mises University 2003.