Hunter Hastings

Articles

Do We Really Need Big Corporations?

01/23/2022 Power & Market Hunter Hastings

Big corporations are often "contracapitalist." Does a decentralized world need them?

Compounding Shortfalls in Innovation

08/30/2021 Power & Market Hunter Hastings

If we fall behind, the distance we have to go to recover becomes exponentially longer

Hunter Hastings on How Entrepreneurs Beat the State

08/09/2020 Power & Market Hunter Hastings

Society thrives when individuals pursue entrepreneurial creativity. Entrepreneurs resolve social maladjustment.

Media

Are Capital Markets Corrupt?

12/09/2022 Jeff Deist Hunter Hastings

Hunter Hastings joins Jeff for a thoroughgoing discussion of how monetary and fiscal policy distort capital markets and create perverse incentives for financialization rather than real production.

Panel: “Entrepreneurship vs. The State”

11/12/2021 Hunter Hastings Peter G. Klein Per Bylund

Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021.

Rothbard and Adam Smith

10/08/2021 Jeff Deist Hunter Hastings Jonathan Newman

Was Rothbard's harsh criticism of Adam Smith justified, or was Smith actually an early and valiant proponent of laissez-faire? Hunter Hastings and Jonathan Newman join Jeff Deist to discuss.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.