Recent Podcast Episodes

Few people understand how destructive regulations are.

Free trade promotes economic progress.

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

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.

Time is an irreversible flux. Each moment has a unique place in the sequence of moments of time with respect to action.

There is no clear basis in economics, ethics, efficiency, or fairness for Minimum Wage Laws.

What is a business cycle?

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises destroyed the intellectual foundations of the case for socialist central planning.

Karl-Friedrich Israel discusses modern econometrics, utility and welfare economics, and econometrics as a set of descriptive tools.

Government attempts to limit “monopoly power” cannot improve well-being.

Capital is the starting point of economic calculation.

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

"We would not expect money to be paper, national, or under the control of any entity."

Praxeology is the method of economics.

We are built for peace.

Menger discovered much more than the principle of marginal utility—he created an entire system of economics based on subjective value and individual choice.

Loan banking versus deposit banking, how deposit banking affects the money supply, and more.

"The free market and the division of labor does not promote hyper-atomized individuals. It creates social harmony and community."

This concept of economic calculation is really the foundation of all economic theory, and price theory is the cornerstone of economic calculation.