Recent Podcast Episodes

David Brady, Jr. discusses his recent article at mises.org, in which he argues that the newly launched "FedNOW" system isn't a CBDC.

Experienced entrepreneurs are Austrians.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2023.

Can government steer energy use decisions to improve outcomes?

Bureaucrats operate with de facto electoral unaccountability.

“Our civilization is inseparably linked with our methods of economic calculation."

Tho discusses the importance of the work of Mises University, some highlights of the week, and ends with a look at Ryan McMaken's article on the Hollywood strikes.

Public health during the pandemic was anti-science and anti-health.

Dr. Terrell discusses the impacts of price controls, occupational licensure, the FDA, and more.

Game theory done the wrong way eliminates individual choice.

Some problems with inflation measures, inequality and social mobility, and further implications.

Recorded at the Mises Institute on 27 July 2023.

More than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese Tao presented ideas that are reflected in F.A. Hayek's concept of spontaneous order.

The differences between the Austrian school and the mainstream begin at the most fundamental level.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Moving policing outside of the realm of economic calculation contributes to many of the problems we see.

At a time when ethnic politics were tearing Europe apart, Ludwig von Mises believed that such ethnic devotion did more harm than good.

Do woke tech firms have monopoly power?

Michael talks with Gad Saad about evolutionary psychology and the market, the mind parasites, and his new book.

In the Progressive Era (1897 to 1929) the American Medical Association made an effort to restrict the supply of doctors.