Carmen Dorobăț: A Young Scholar on Mises’s Legacy and Impact
Jeff Deist and Carmen Dorobăț discuss how Ludwig von Mises's work and legacy have paved the way for an entire generation of younger scholars.
Recent Podcast Episodes
The Economics of the Public Sector
In the real world, it is impossible to separate economic analysis from an understanding of the effects of state intervention in the marketplace.
50. Thieves of Virtue: How Bioethics Stole Medicine
Are bioethicists too complacent about their grasp of economics? A fascinating discussion with Dr. Tom Koch.
After #MeToo, Men Begin Avoiding Female Co-Workers
When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, employers hired fewer disabled workers, because they feared lawsuits. We may now be seeing a similar trend in the face of more sexual harassment claims.
8. David R. Henderson on Working in the Reagan Administration, Krugman’s Inflation Memo, and Publicly Challenging the Secretary of Defense
Bob interviews Economist David R. Henderson.
Keynesianism and World Inflation
Keynes believed that all economic problems could be overcome with global inflation. This would bring about a new utopian age in which only social and scientific problems would remain.
We Need Unilateral Free Trade with Post-Brexit Britain
As the EU tries to exploit the UK in Brexit negotiations, the US should adopt total unilateral free trade with the UK.
Building a Blockade
Chris Calton details how technological innovations changed the course of naval warfare during the Civil War.
49. Why Are We Insuring Primary Care? Lee Gross on the DPC Movement
Dr. Lee Gross is a pioneer in the most hopeful trend in health care today: the Direct Primary Care movement.
Dr. Robert Murphy on the Dubious Economics of Climate Change
Dr. Robert Murphy joins Jeff Deist to discuss how the political landscape and media narratives fail to consider obvious choices and trade-offs inherent in the climate change debate.
Chapter 4. Fairness and Equality
Carabini discusses the political perversion of “fairness” and “equality” to gain votes and power.
Chapter 9. Political Democracy
Carabini explores the inherent inhumanity of political democracy as a social scheme.
Chapter 2. Barbaric Civility
Carabini discusses the duality of political conduct versus personal conduct.
Chapter 7. Obedience to Authority
Carabini on why even the most compassionate people can conduct themselves in abhorrent ways when they are obedient to authority.
Chapter 5. Discrimination, Beliefs, and Expressions
Carabini on the importance of relationships that are voluntary, joint ventures based on preferences.
Chapter 10. A Better Life — A Better World
Finding purpose in life while trying to make the world a better place.
Chapter 3. Doing Good: Nice Guys Finish First
Carabini on the natural selection of human cooperation over force.
Chapter 8. Complexity, Adaption, and Order: Visualing the Invisible Hand
Carabini shows why the political top-down ordering of society is disruptive to social order.
The Classical-Liberal Roots of Marxist Class Analysis
The idea that some groups in society attempt to exploit others was first an insight of the free-market liberals. It was later ripped off and modified by the Marxists.
