Recent Podcast Episodes

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

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.

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?

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

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

Few people understand how destructive regulations are.

Free trade promotes economic progress.

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.

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.