Recent Podcast Episodes

Mark Thornton dismantles the modern obsession with equality.

Timothy Terrell makes the case for property rights and market-based stewardship as the true path to sustainability.

Modern psychology has been at odds with the praxeology of the Austrian School, as psychologists have tended to see humans as passive and reactive, while Austrians view human action as purposeful. Recent developments in the field might change that narrative.

Lucas Engelhardt explores the economics of interventionism, tracing Ludwig von Mises’s core argument that state interference in markets is both self-defeating and inherently unstable.

If education and career skills are what you want, a college or university may be a waste of your time and money.

If New Yorkers wanted to help students by paying for their tuition, they would have already done so on their own.

In Syria the damage is done, and future generations will continue to suffer from the cruel folly of those convinced they know how to run everyone else’s lives.

In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on Alex Honneth's The Working Sovereign. While Dr. Gordon acknowledges that the author gives an "Honneth" effort, his logic and grasp of the world of work fall way short of being convincing.

Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the history and the causes wrong. 

Tim Terrell offers a critical examination of higher education’s economic structure.

Tate Fegley shows how bureaucratic insulation, lack of economic calculation, and political incentives lead to cronyism and inefficiency.

Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter.

Bob Murphy examines Hazlitt’s key insights on monetary expansion, Cantillon effects, and the distinction between nominal and real variables.

Tom Woods offers a critical analysis of the COVID-19 policy response, while underscoring the Mises Institute’s principled opposition to prevailing narratives.

Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman take on the rising popularity of Modern Monetary Theory and explain why it stands in direct opposition to Austrian economics.

The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposes the lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.

Lucas Engelhardt challenges conventional applications of game theory by integrating the Austrian perspective on entrepreneurship.

Cwik and Ritenour revisit the often-overlooked "forgotten Austrians" who extended Mengerian economics beyond Vienna.

At the recent WNBA All-Star game, players wore T-shirts with the message, “Pay us what you owe us.” If one uses the discounted marginal revenue product as a guide, the answer to their demand would be “zero.”

When the covid madness was imposed upon the world five years ago, the lockdown advocates claimed they were just “doing science.” In reality, they were ignoring science, lying, and just “doing totalitarian politics.”