Free Markets

Presented at Mises University 2020.

The story of how housing became so unaffordable for so many is a tragic one. But this is a story of our own making, thanks to decades of misguided government regulations.

Jeff Deist and Dr. Jonathan Newman break down Chapters 2–4 of Man, Economy, and State. This is vintage Rothbard: precise definitions; hardcore explanations of property, prices, and exchange; the problems of "hegemonic" state violence;  and a "beautiful" (per Dr. Newman) conception of social cooperation.

The story of how housing became so unaffordable for so many is a tragic one. But this is a story of our own making, thanks to decades of misguided government regulations.

If Mises stopped short of affirming the full right of individual secession, it was only because of what he regarded as technical obstacles.

Thomas Sowell has a gift for explaining how markets are simply the result of human beings making free choices. There is no single market answer to a problem. There are countless answers.

David Gordon reviews Prosperity and Liberty, a compilation of essays on Venezuela's wrecked economy and plans for reconstruction, edited by Rafael Acevedo.

Michael Sandel doesn't like capitalism. But he can't seem to manage an economic argument for why. He's content to claim that capitalism is morally corrupting, converting anticapitalism into a sort of pseudoreligious faith.

In this sweeping but brief history of classical liberalism, historian Ralph Raico recounts how this ideology has for centuries formed the only true intellectual opposition to despots and socialists over the past five hundred years.

Bob interviews Whitney Davis, a Rothbardian and Seattle resident who happens to live down the street from the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).